"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."
"Leaving your car unlocked so people can escape polar bears."
"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."
"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."
"Dad's taking care of their kids.Heard of foreigners asking, "What's the deal with all the gay nannies?"Apparently, it's easier to assume that men taking care of kids have to be paid for it and gay than to assume that dads are actually parenting.Edit to add country: Sweden, and to specify dads taking care of their own babies. It is very common for dads to take parental leave."
"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."
"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."
"We thank our city bus drivers as we get off the bus at our stops."
"Putting babies alone outside in their strollers under the winter so they can nap."
"Specific to my state, but iguanas falling from trees in the winter."
"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 ????."
"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 n****e 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."
"In Spain I would say that one of the things is the dinner/lunch times. For many people it is too late."
"Women can’t legally take the surname of their husband when they get married. There birth surname needs to be used for everything « legal »."
"Amount of well cared for stray cats and dogs. They are part of our daily life, we take care of them as members of our society. You already know where I don’t have to tell you."
Germany: Each Saturday at 12°°
Maybe where you live. In the GDR, always Wednesdays at 1 p.m.
Schleswig-Holstein, 500 m South from the Danish border
Yes but you don't have mandatory voting
I'd guess it's easier to draw a glass of wine that way O.o
#27 hate the stuff also it's important to know that there are 2 versions 1 is mate drunken hot and the more common Tereré drunken cold.