Only in America do we treat healthcare like ordering from a mystery menu. You get the treatment first and find out the price never. Hope you enjoyed that $7,000 band-aid 😭
That were not trusted to have electricity in bathrooms but can just step into a road and everything bigger than a bicycle is legally obliged to stop for you.
Our food practices confuse most people until they try them themselves. For example, we put cheese in our hot chocolate and fruit salads, honey on our fried chicken, and we eat a milk and water “soup” with an egg inside for breakfast
I’m from Appalachia and something that always makes outsiders curious is the way we wave to people on the road, even if we don’t know them. It’s just a short acknowledgement, a light lifting of the fingers from the steering wheel. It’s literally just a sign of respect to your neighbors on the road.
Mate 🧉 culture. People cannot comprehend how casually Argentines and Uruguayans will share their drink and the ONE SINGULAR STRAW we drink it from with strangers
Quiet talking. Especially people from America (north and south) told me this.
Here in Switzerland, it is considered rude to disturb others, so you’ll talk in a volume that does not bother others. Especially in public transport. And don’t you dare to talk in a cinema.
That gay people have the same rights as straight people.
Also how progressive my country is when compared to others, and that it’s not a “new” thing. I grew up with may of the things already being written into law, and I viewed it as normal.
You won’t find weird ropes in the water that won’t let you swim past them. There won’t be lifeguards watching out for your safety. There aren’t cops patrolling to make sure you don’t swim at night. There’s no guarded entrance to pay a fee to pass. You just lay down your towel and enjoy!
(You might have to buy a beverage to ‘pay’ for an existing lounge chair though!)
Idk about the rest of the world, but I think americans will get shocked that in Brasil not only the vote is mandatory, but you need to prove your identity with an official ID and your digital fingerprints before you do it. We vote through a machine and it only works after it validates your digital
A woman can breastfeed anywhere and anytime. No worries about covering up. Be it public transport, a restaurant, wherever. Baby can even take a rest and the nipple hangs out.
We just don’t consider feeding your baby as sexual. I know it’s shocking to people from the western world but it’s equally shocking to us that some people, somewhere consider something as basic as feeding babies, sexual and will refuse a baby’s basic needs in public because of this.
Identifying someone based on apparence or pretty much everything is socially acceptable. For example if you ask someone “hey, who is Mark and where I can find him?” it’s totally normal to get explanations like “the fat guy over there” “the skinny dude” “the priest looking one with big beard” same goes for women “that skinny lady over there” “the fat woman with red shirt” etc
Finland: naked in the sauna. But what if it’s in a public pool? Naked. Changing cubicle? Nope, communal space and communal showers. Naked. There are even signs next to the public sauna doors with a picture of a swimming costume and an X over the top.
In fact, if you go to the Yrjönkatu public pool in Helsinki, you can be naked in the swimming pool during dedicated times. Certainly, at most private homes or cottages, you’ll be naked in the sauna possibly in mixed gender company, and naked into the frozen lake to swim too.
usa- Tipping. The idea that your meal costs $20 but you’re expected to leave an extra $5 just because someone brought it to you? That throws a lot of visitors off real fast.
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Only in America do we treat healthcare like ordering from a mystery menu. You get the treatment first and find out the price never. Hope you enjoyed that $7,000 band-aid 😭
Casual alcoholism of Czech people. We love beer. (me included).
People shooting innocent children with automatic rifles.
Vietnam- crossing the road
Overcrowded places especially on weekends or during festivals. (India)
Stupidly large cars
We drink, a lot!!!
How good the food is.
Drop Bears
How many people drink and drive. It’s noticeable at any restaurant or bar.
Germany- envy is the highest form of compliment.
Saying phrases like “I’m happy for you” or “good for you” are automatically perceived as sarcastic.
Not calling an ambulance cause you can’t afford it
Drinking in parks as teenagers
That were not trusted to have electricity in bathrooms but can just step into a road and everything bigger than a bicycle is legally obliged to stop for you.
Earthquakes, hobbit holes, the word ‘chur’ and super kind hospitality
Germany:
Sundays are for silence. No mowing lawns, no working outside, no loud parties, no annoying anoyne with your choices.
Sundays. Are. For. Silence.
And it’s the best thing ever.
Selling food on the top of their heads (Ghana)
Free speech
Specific to my state, but iguanas falling from trees in the winter.
Tying cask wine to a washing line lmao
Our food practices confuse most people until they try them themselves. For example, we put cheese in our hot chocolate and fruit salads, honey on our fried chicken, and we eat a milk and water “soup” with an egg inside for breakfast
I’m from Appalachia and something that always makes outsiders curious is the way we wave to people on the road, even if we don’t know them. It’s just a short acknowledgement, a light lifting of the fingers from the steering wheel. It’s literally just a sign of respect to your neighbors on the road.
Takeaway coffee or tea in bags
Eating the durian and thoroughly enjoying it.
In Germany, stores tend to be closed on Sundays (and those who are open need a special permission to be this way).
How often we say Cunt. Ayeee sick cunt, Oi dog cunt, CUNT!!
It’s a versatile word. Means both mate, and enemy.
Can you guess the country?
We have multiple levels on our the bushfire risk scale.
“Very high” is in the middle. The final level is “catastrophic”.
Winter snowstorm in April
School shootings
Swastika sign on the doors and walls.
Fermented herring as a snack.
School shootings and other violence against children.
Driving on the right
Other countries: We cross the street weird and you can’t make noise on Sundays.
America: School shootings, Going to debt trying to be educated or going to the hospital. WOOF
The tradition of Three Kings (epiphany) in Czechia.
We eat chicken hearts, barbecued. It’s delicious. (Brazil)
Mate 🧉 culture. People cannot comprehend how casually Argentines and Uruguayans will share their drink and the ONE SINGULAR STRAW we drink it from with strangers
Tipping.
Mass shootings.
we have carpet in our toilets
Israel:
Soldiers and people walking with guns and pistols everywhere at all times
Quiet talking. Especially people from America (north and south) told me this.
Here in Switzerland, it is considered rude to disturb others, so you’ll talk in a volume that does not bother others. Especially in public transport. And don’t you dare to talk in a cinema.
Two words: Swooping Season.
Not unique to our country but I’m not sure it’s as prevalent anywhere else 😂
Netherlands. First Monday of the month at 12pm. It’s not an air raid but it sure sounds like it.
Putting babies alone outside in their strollers under the winter so they can nap.
Milk in bags.
The courtesy head nod in the UK when someone stops to let you cross the road
Small kids going to school on their own.
We say sorry. A lot.
Pay to win healthcare
That gay people have the same rights as straight people.
Also how progressive my country is when compared to others, and that it’s not a “new” thing. I grew up with may of the things already being written into law, and I viewed it as normal.
Beaches are free.
You won’t find weird ropes in the water that won’t let you swim past them. There won’t be lifeguards watching out for your safety. There aren’t cops patrolling to make sure you don’t swim at night. There’s no guarded entrance to pay a fee to pass. You just lay down your towel and enjoy!
(You might have to buy a beverage to ‘pay’ for an existing lounge chair though!)
How we almost never need to wear shoes and most of us end up in even big name brands shops completely shoeless/just casually walking outside shoeless
Here in Belgium we like to eat horse meat.
I’m American. I think a lot of things we do people think might be weird.
Car guards, calling traffic lights ‘robots’, calling filling stations a ‘garage’
I don’t think I need to elaborate further
Raping little boys in afghanistan
Widespread ownership of firearms.
Idk about the rest of the world, but I think americans will get shocked that in Brasil not only the vote is mandatory, but you need to prove your identity with an official ID and your digital fingerprints before you do it. We vote through a machine and it only works after it validates your digital
A woman can breastfeed anywhere and anytime. No worries about covering up. Be it public transport, a restaurant, wherever. Baby can even take a rest and the nipple hangs out.
We just don’t consider feeding your baby as sexual. I know it’s shocking to people from the western world but it’s equally shocking to us that some people, somewhere consider something as basic as feeding babies, sexual and will refuse a baby’s basic needs in public because of this.
Identifying someone based on apparence or pretty much everything is socially acceptable. For example if you ask someone “hey, who is Mark and where I can find him?” it’s totally normal to get explanations like “the fat guy over there” “the skinny dude” “the priest looking one with big beard” same goes for women “that skinny lady over there” “the fat woman with red shirt” etc
You can walk into basically any store and buy a firearm
we drive on the left side of the road
Women can’t legally take the name of their husband when they get married. There birth last name needs to be used for everything « legal »
Finland: naked in the sauna. But what if it’s in a public pool? Naked. Changing cubicle? Nope, communal space and communal showers. Naked. There are even signs next to the public sauna doors with a picture of a swimming costume and an X over the top.
In fact, if you go to the Yrjönkatu public pool in Helsinki, you can be naked in the swimming pool during dedicated times. Certainly, at most private homes or cottages, you’ll be naked in the sauna possibly in mixed gender company, and naked into the frozen lake to swim too.
It’s just human bodies. We all have them.
Building a major city riiiight next to an active volcano
usa- Tipping. The idea that your meal costs $20 but you’re expected to leave an extra $5 just because someone brought it to you? That throws a lot of visitors off real fast.