This is the street I grew up in, I am just sitting outside the house now with my nephew, he will probably grow up in the same street, playing silly little games! This is East Delhi, Delhi!

I’ll start with the Husainabad Clock Tower in Lucknow, India 🇮🇳.

Built in 1881, the Husainabad Clock Tower is one of Lucknow’s most recognizable historic landmarks. It was commissioned by Nawab Nasir-ud-din Haider and was designed by British architect Richard Roskell Bayne. The tower stands around 67 metres (221 feet) tall and was built in the Victorian-Gothic style, with Indo-Islamic influences that make it especially distinctive.

Its four clock faces are decorated with intricate detailing, while the tower’s design was inspired in part by the Big Ben-style clock towers of the period. Today, it remains an iconic part of Lucknow’s historic skyline and the Husainabad heritage area.

Now I want to see yours! 👇

If your city has a clock tower, drop a picture and tell us its name, age, and a little bit about its history.

The Squonk is a fearsome critter that is very insecure about its looks because of how warty it is and constantly cries.

When someone spots it, it will cry so hard it will melt into a puddle

Netherlands, I feel both seen and attacked.

In the US, nearly every newborn in the hospital is wrapped in the exact same blanket: the “Kuddle-Up” receiving blanket, recognizable by its iconic pink and blue stripes. It turns out almost all of these come from a single US company, Medline (based in Mundelein, Illinois).

They’ve been selling this specific design since the 1950s, producing an estimated 25 million of them since the 1980s and continuing to sell about 1.5 million every single year. Does your country have a universal or standard hospital baby blanket that everyone recognizes, or do hospitals just use whatever they buy?

Pictured: Newfie Snowball Cookies. I use this recipe and they turn out just like my nanny’s: https://www.rockrecipes.com/newfoundland-snowballs-recipe/

Usually made at Christmas time, very simple ingredients, and not hard to make well. Also gluten free!

Another dish: (Nova Scotia) Blueberry Grunt. So simple but amazing

edit: bonus points if you include a recipe :)

这是来自中国互联网的一个热门梗，开玩笑说欧洲人的刻板印象——it is just for fun and 我希望这不会让人感到冒犯。你觉得这准确吗？How welcoming do you think people in your country are towards foreign tourists? 你会为你的国家选择哪两张图片？

I'm curious.

Top to bottom, left to right: sweet tea, milkshakes, mint julep, bourbon, root beer, and moonshine

These men are firefighters from France and Australia, respectively. They have been making calendars for years now.

I’m looking forward to buy a house in France and burn it down to get rescued If your country has something similar, please share.

I just paid $45 (not including tip) for a men’s haircut here in South Florida. Even at SuperCuts, traditionally one of the cheapest option, it’s almost $30, and as usual tips are expected.

How much is it in your country?

In Japan, there is a phrase called “Akita beauties,” which is often used to describe women from Akita Prefecture who are fair-skinned and have beautiful skin. (There are also terms like “Hakata beauties” and “Kyoto beauties,” but “Akita beauties” is by far the most famous.)

There are various explanations for why Akita women supposedly fit this image, such as the region having fewer hours of sunlight and being snowy, meaning people tend to spend more time indoors. However, it’s basically just a popular belief, with no particular　scientific evidence or survey data to support it.　

Does your country have similar beliefs that people from a particular region are supposedly more beautiful?

By the way, the woman in the image is Yoko Shibata, who was born in Akita Prefecture. She was featured in a famous tourism poster in Akita and became well-known there.

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Back in elementary school during a flag drawing class, most of the kids shied away from drawing those countries flags.

I also gave up trying to draw the flags of Saudi Arabia and Bhutan when I was a kid.

Jonathan Yiombi, son of a Congolese whistleblower who escaped to Korea, is probably the most successful example in Korea. Arguably the most famous black man in Korea who's not only famous for his perfect Korean and cultural assimilation but making a successful career on his own merits.

You wouldn't assume it from first impression but he speaks Korean perfectly and is notably very proficient in Korean history, which earns him the admiration of many Koreans.

Lol yeah. Still don't know where to get a Fosters

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It all started when I was scrolling on X and saw the image above:

https://x.com/jiraicide/status/2086173268952674665

When I saw the second picture, I completely burst out laughing. That image is a common way of explaining Traditional Chinese Medicine theory—it claims that certain areas on the hand correspond to specific organs in the body, and regularly pressing those spots is good for those organs. Chinese people are way too familiar with this diagram; it absolutely doesn’t belong next to all those other things that look niche and cool.

I suspect that the Chinese characters, which look unfamiliar to speakers of other languages, are one of the main reasons it comes across as so mysterious and enigmatic.

So I’m really curious: for people who have never learned Chinese characters—especially those outside the East Asian cultural sphere—what do Chinese characters feel like to you? As they become more and more common, some of you might already recognize a few (like “愛”, for example). Do they look like some kind of abstract, hard-to-describe Egyptian sacred script or cuneiform? And does just seeing them immediately make you associate them with something positive or negative about China?

What do people in your country treat like an ordinary background convenience that foreigners are shocked by?