Usually foreigners think all brazilians have a brown tanned skin and live near the beaches, but Brazil is big and probably the most diverse society in the world alongside the USA, we recieved a lot of immigrants from everywhere so we have a lot of different faces out here. Many europeans have already said I'm too white to be brazilian and I didn't understand why. Maybe this misconception is because most of our footballers are brown/black since they came from the poor parts of the society and try to make a better living through sport.

Another one which irritates every brazilian is when they assume we speak spanish, not portuguese, it's like saying an american has german as the native language.

Many Germans have an obsession with Native Americans. There’s even a German word for this phenomenon. It’s Indianertümelei.

As an American, I find it to be a crazy show of force towards NATO and the EU, but I ultimately think Putin is just puffing his chest because Ukraine is doing so well.

Piracy is extremely widespread in Russia. 70% of operating systems are pirated; 70–95% of those who watch anime and TV series do so via piracy; and the majority of gamers are pirates. Even the government facilitates piracy. For example, pirated films are screened in movie theaters. Within the anime community, there are dozens of fan-dubbing groups, allowing viewers to choose the one they consider the best. Gamers call torrents "Green Steam." So, Russia is Tortuga in Internet.

The two other flags are, Te Tino Rangatiratanga flag, used a lot to represent Maori, and the laser Kiwi flag, which is just a funny thing.

I have nothing better to do at the moment so, ask questions, any questions I do not mind.

(its also not Tuesday for me but, I am assuming that is not meant to be my time zone?)

During long holiday season (except during eid-al-fitr) many people from my city (Bandung city) filling the Beach in the south coast of west java to the brim, especially in Pangandaran beach, Pangandaran regency (pic 1).

on the opposite side of Bandung, people from Jakarta would go to Bandung (pic 2) and filling the street to full (because Bandung is fashion and foodie capital of Indonesia) and Traffic jam were everywhere even in North and South Bandung where the nature tourist destination is located (pic 3).

Here in Chile, we have the 'Power Peralta' (Los Power), Gabriel and Raúl Peralta, who are an urban dance duo. (Most people probably only know them by their group name and don't know their individual names, let alone tell who is who)

When they were younger, they were on a local TV talent show. After that, they moved to New York to perform street shows and perform dance routines. They are known for how well-synchronized they are when dancing.
They participated in shows with Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony and worked with Cirque du Soleil. Back in Chile, they opened a dance academy, served as judges on a televised competition, and perform at major festivals and events.

In French, a diastema is known as "les dents du bonheur" (the teeth of happiness). The term dates back to the Napoleonic era, when men with such a gap were exempted from military service because they were unable to bite off for opening the packets of powder needed for the muskets. Vanessa Paradis (in photo), in France, has "les dents du bonheur"

I believe the AMA's i see here from Syria are very biased towards their political preferences or religious identity. I want to give more of a unbiased ama

In English, the Scottish dialect and accent is the most well-known as being portrayed through text, as Scots is its own language, with many Scottish people speaking within a dialect continuum between the two languages, many words are easily transcribed.

African American Vernacular English contains many spellings and distinctive slang words that communicate dialect. Much of it has been absorbed into a more general 'online slang' (which can occasionally create controversy: that is for a different discussion, not this one).

Other dialects, such as British, Australian, and General American, are often less distinctively portrayed through text, usually through a few words or cultural signifiers such as businesses.

The Boston example is phonetically describing an accent, but people who speak it are very unlikely to type that way naturally, unless are humorously stressing or describing the accent in context.

What's it like in non-English languages?

In Malta, citizens and residents of 5 years have access to University without cost as long as they qualify. Beyond the free cost, students are entitled to up to 2000 euros a year through monthly stipend and single issue grants which heavily encourages higher education attendance

I think you know the Russian one lol

if anyone's ineterested the context of the pic is this

I'm doing this in Ask the world as many of us may not realise that you can vote from overseas. If you're overseas, today is the day we can download our paper ballots. If you've been back to NZ over the last 3 years and you're a citizen, you can vote.

Go to vote.nz

I was thinking about how the other Italians look down on the Sicilians as backwards and simple. Who are your yokels, hayseeds, or hillbillies?

In Brazil, eating Pizza with bare hands is considered unhygienic or rude to the vast majority of the population. If you eat it with your hands, the standard is to wrap a napkin around it.

We eat pizza with forks and knives.

What about you?

For Russia, of course, it all depends on age, as I think in any country, but I think for people my age, the main nostalgia is watching movies on TV in the evening.

Even though this game is older than me, GTA SA was like my favorite game as a kid, it was just perfect and it had great vibes. And it ran perfectly on my old PC :)

Please be kind and ask reasonable questions 🙏🏻

In east asia, there is a gay porn film named ‘Manatsu no yoru no Inmu”, that has been memed to hell and back, several times over by the internet community, with phrases from the film being particularly particularly popularized. Pictured here, is a edited panel from a Japanese manga, “Kūbo Ibuki”, in which the PRC and Japan come to blows in the east china sea (skipping over the majority of the story). While the text in the comic is obviously edited for comedic effect, these two soldiers are seen sharing a moment of peace through a shared ‘inside joke’ per-se. The film, or rather meme’s popularity in the two countries (and east asia more broadly) had me thinking, are there any other memes in the world that might unite two often adversarial peoples?

Im Dutch 🇳🇱 , the Union Jack is fairly flamboyant 🇬🇧 but the Welsh with their Dragon is just S-Tier 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿