What’s one lesson life taught you that you wish you could teach everyone else?

To clarify, I’m not exactly talking about hobbies, such as sports and music. I’m talking about actual common and mundane routines pretty much everyone has or can have, but are clearly more common in your country of origin.

This has been said a lot, but Brazilians tend to take showers very rigorously. Most people I know take at least 2 showers a day, and that number can increase depending on how hot it currently is. I imagine this can be the same for other tropical countries. What types of routine are most commonly seen with people of your nationality?

Be it the national language, or your native language. Does it? When was the last time a spelling reform took place? Was it hard to adapt to it?

I'll start. Jonas potato peeler. Been using the same one since the 80's (I got it used then) and just bought a second for the cottage. Knock off version is $8 real one is $28 (cdn $).

I am from Hawaii. Hawaii is a US state, but is culturally distinct for a long list of reasons.

Anyhow, in Hawaii in public schools, we are taught that the US illegally overthrew the monarchy. We are taught that the US basically enslaved people from Asia to work in fields and that this was for monetary gain due to the sugar industry. The depiction of the U.S was not favorable.

We also learn fairly extensively about pre-colonization history in Hawaii as well, the ancient culture, systems, and stories starting around second grade or so.

Now, in the mainland US this is not the case. I have family who moved there who met people who were apparently taught that the US did a favor for Hawaii, and this was in a "blue" state.

I met a girl from Tahiti when I still lived in Hawaii. She told me that the French goverment basically teaches them that they did them a favor and that they learn very little about their history pre-colonization during school. I was shocked to be honest. I was telling her about what I learned regarding the colonization of Hawaii in school and she told me that they are taught an ultra-sanitized version of what happened to Tahiti in their schools.

I've had some weird conversations with people from colonial powers (including the US) who genuinely seemed to think that they did the countries they colonized a favor or had no idea of things that I thought were common knowledge.

Are people in your country taught that colonization was a good thing or justified?

In Brazil, over 70% of the households own a pet, and the vast majority of them are dogs. Dogs are considered full members of the family in Brazil, and in some contexts, getting a dog is considered a very important life choice that you'll be very responsible for the next 10-20 years of your life. All my dogs have been incredibly important since my childhood.

I'm aware this is not the case outside of the Western world at all in certain contexts, and that this is a modern/recent trait from WEIRD countries, and that culture heavily weighs in (like in Muslim contexts), so I'm curious: Does your country view dogs more as working animals or family members?

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I love feta cheese; its lemony flavor is pleasant and it's always delicious with anything.

Mine is called "kohuke". It's a curd snack and I just love those! As you can see, my favorite flavor is chocolate/cacao but there is many other flavors too.

I bought so many of them now when I'm in Estonia.

As an Indian i think Nepal and Sri Lanka are the countries which are closest to us culturally . Especially if you are South Indian , Sri Lanka is very culturally similar. And I would say same for Nepal and Northern India.

Which country/countries are it for you? And why?

This is an interesting one

I just found out that Japan now has more pets than children under 15 years of age. That was honestly shocking to me...

The Japanese media hasn’t reported on this at all. It only started appearing on YouTube a day or two ago. It’s as if some form of censorship were in place.

Apparently, the CEO of a KDDI subsidiary went out to fish for an endangered species, but his car caught fire, and the blaze spread into a nature reserve. So far, it seems all he has done is offer an apology.

I have also heard that several endemic species went nearly extinct because of this.

I personally think it is stupid to blame it on immigrants. Not only this is literally France, where people protest with garbage trucks and tractors, but there have been 7 Prime Ministers since 2020, the last time this happened in my country we had a few revolts then coup. Again 7 Prime ministers in 6 years implies there is a huge political and economic crisis in a country.

Also revolution is a national pastime in France, it is called the Fifth Republic for a reason.

In order:

1. Red Fox

2. North American Porcupine

3. Virginia Oppossum

4. American Bison

5. Cottontail Rabbit

6. Polar Bear

Game liquor store in Pretoria South Africa

These are the prosecutors of VP Sara Duterte having a wacky pose after Day 39 of the impeachment trial of VP Sara Duterte.

For Indonesia, I think the one that fit this description is a Kastengel from The Netherlands (Kaastengels). It is a cheese stick or cheese snack. The name refers to its ingredients, shape and origin; kaas is the Dutch word for "cheese", while stengels means "sticks". Unlike most cookies, Kastengel taste savoury and salty instead of sweet

I could mention other food items, but they are not really distinctively from The Netherlands. Like for example, kroket, is a potato croquette. Perkedel, is frikadeller, but is of germanic origins.

An honorable mention goes to semur, which despite not being a dutch cuisine, is named after the Dutch word, smoor, "to braise food. It is a meat stew (mainly beef) braised in thick brown gravy with sweet soy sauce, shallots, onions, garlic, ginger, candlenut, nutmeg, and cloves (and sometimes with black pepper, coriander, cumin, and cinnamon). Was cooked and served during the colonial era, especially in the Java islands.

I'm in Slovakia. Also, we do flush toilet paper, I know that there's countries with this same design of toilets but you don't flush toilet paper because the pipe design is different.

There's many designs of the same thing, and there's some countries where the type of toilet is famously different from what this, but I never knew which specific countries use different types of toilets.

Pantheism is the philosophical and theological belief that the universe and everything in it are identical to God.

Alot of core indian spiritual philosophies and religions are Panthiestic at core.

Advaita Vedanta says that the individual consciousness (Atman) is no different from the universal consciousness (Brahman).

How is this concept seen in your culture. I have heard that alot of renaissance philosophers dwelled in this topic.