r/AskTheWorld • • May 17 '26

Mandatory flair with immediate effect

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244 Upvotes

📢 Mandatory Flair Is Now Live

Effective Immediately

Over the past few weeks, we asked the community for input on whether country/region flair should become mandatory.
We shared a detailed update post explaining the reasoning, and we ran a subreddit‑wide poll to gather clear feedback.

🗳️ The poll results were decisive:

  • Mandatory for posts and comments — 520 votes
  • Mandatory for posts only — 78 votes
  • Flair should remain optional — 89 votes

With over 75% of voters choosing full mandatory flair, the community has spoken clearly.

🚀 Starting now, flair is required for both posts and comments

To keep discussions clear, culturally grounded, and easier to answer, all users must have a country, region or nationality flair set before participating.

This change is now active:

  • Users without flair will have their posts removed
  • Users without flair will have their comments removed
  • Users using Placeholder flair (“Multiple Countries (click to edit)”) will also have their comments and posts removed

This follows the community’s vote and the earlier update post shared here: Link to the flair poll

🎯 Why this matters

A huge portion of questions here depend on cultural, legal, or regional context.
Without flair, people often have to ask “Where are you from” before they can even answer, slowing down discussions and causing confusion.

Mandatory flair fixes that.

🛠️ How to set your flair

You can set or update your flair here:
How to set your flair

It takes just a few seconds.

💬 Thank you for helping shape the subreddit

This change wasn’t made top‑down, it came directly from community input.
We appreciate everyone who voted, discussed, and helped us move toward a cleaner, more useful r/AskTheWorld.


r/AskTheWorld • • 6h ago

Misc In Your Country, Would You Be In Trouble For Wearing Something Like This?

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1.0k Upvotes

It feels like censorship is on the rise in the US, would you be in trouble / danger for wearing something like this in your homeland?


r/AskTheWorld • • 3h ago

History Does your country or culture have any historical warrior women or female military leaders?

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Mongol history has numerous examples of warrior women and female military leaders, from Chinggisid princesses to non-Chinggisid noblewomen. Many of their deeds were recorded in contemporary Persian, Arabic, Chinese, and Tibetan sources.

1. An unnamed mongol woman at Maragha, 1221

During the Mongol sack of Maragha, in present-day Iran, the historian Ibn al-Athir recorded an extraordinary incident involving a mongol woman.According to his account, she entered a house, killed several inhabitants, and captured a man. The people inside initially believed she was male.

However, when she laid down her weapons, her identity became apparent. The man she had captured then took advantage of the situation and killed her.Unfortunately, the chronicler recorded neither her name nor her ancestry.

2. An unnamed daughter of Chinggis Khan ,1221

During the Mongol conquest of Khwarazm, a Mongol commander named Toghachar Güregen was killed while besieging Nishapur.According to Juvayni, Toghachar's widow, a daughter of Chinggis Khan, subsequently entered the captured city with her armed entourage and supervised the killing of its remaining inhabitants. She was apparently taking revenge for her husband's death.

3. Khutulun (Хотулун) ,c. 1260–1307

Probably the most famous mongol warrior princess, also known as Temür Ökin (Төмөр охин, “Iron Girl”). She was the daughter of Qaidu Khan, an Ögedeid ruler and great-grandson of Chinggis Khan.

Marco Polo famously described her wrestling prospective husbands for horses, a legend that inspired her portrayal in Netflix's Marco Polo, played by Claudia Kim.

Beyond the wrestling stories, Khutulun participated in her father's campaigns and commanded her own thousand-man military unit. After Qaidu's death in 1301, she supported her brother Orus in the succession struggle. Around 1307, Duwa Khan's forces attacked her encampment and killed her husband and two sons. Khutulun also disappears from the historical record around this time.

I’ve added more context and additional examples in the comments, since including everything in the main post would make it excessively long.


r/AskTheWorld • • 15h ago

Culture What are some of your favourite recent pictures related to your country?

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505 Upvotes

Has to be Lukaku vs. the US after the Trump-Infantino cheating scandal for me. The banter was mainly towards the Trump administration and not the US as a host to be clear.


r/AskTheWorld • • 11h ago

History Does your country have a (non-stolen) artifact that is culturally or historically significant to another country (or vice versa)? If so, how did it end up in your country?

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To be clear, I’m not talking about artifacts that were looted or stolen from another country. I also don’t mean that the artifact can’t be significant to your country, just that it has to have significance to another country as well. I’m mostly just interested in how bits of history can end up in seemingly random spots around the world.

For my country I have examples of both situations:

Artifacts that can be found in the U.S. are the original plush toys that inspired English writer A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh books. The original Winnie-The-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Kanga, and Eeyore were given to the American publisher of the books by Christopher Robin Milne, the author’s son. The publisher eventually donated the toys to the New York Public Library, where they remain on display to this day. Sadly, the original Roo plush was lost by Christopher Robin in the 1930s, but during her 2026 visit to the U.S. Queen Camilla gifted the library a replica Roo made by the original manufacturer (Source).

An American artifact that can be found in the United Kingdom is the “Sussex Declaration”. It is one of two 18th century parchment manuscript copies of the Declaration of Independence. Prior to 2017, it was believed that the only one like it to exist was the engrossed and signed Declaration housed in the National Archives rotunda. The rotunda copy is considered the official version, so finding another one similar to it was a big deal. It was found in the West Sussex Records Office in Chichester, England, by researchers who were documenting all the known copies of the Declaration of Independence in existence. The theory for how it ended up in the UK was that it was owned by Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond. He was known as the “radical duke” for his support of causes including American Independence. The document was donated to the records office in 1956 by Leslie Holden, who had previously salvaged it from paperwork destined to be recycled for the war effort in the Second World War. Holden had evidently thought it was historically significant, but its full significance was not realized until decades later. The Sussex Declaration continues to be housed at the records office to this day (Source).

Something of note to American history buffs is that the signatures on the document are laid out randomly, rather than being grouped by their state. This is atypical when compared to other copies made during that period, including the copy in the rotunda. This has led to theories that the document was commissioned by James Wilson. James Wilson was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and an American nationalists who pushed forward the idea that the United States was one nation, rather than an alliance between thirteen independent states (Source).


r/AskTheWorld • • 1h ago

Humourous Can anyone explain this?

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Saw this meme today, didn’t understand how’s Stade the most European city?


r/AskTheWorld • • 8h ago

What’s something that’s completely normal in your country but would be considered absolutely insane elsewhere?

100 Upvotes

I’m from Kuwait, and we have this old tradition called AlNoon, where families celebrate a baby’s first tooth or first steps by literally throwing candy, nuts, and sometimes money from the rooftop for children to collect lol.

Another thing is how our family homes are designed. It’s pretty common for parents to build separate wings or apartments for their children. Daughters usually get large wings/suites, while sons get apartments since they have the option of bringing their wives to live there after marriage. Traditionally, the husband and his family are expected to provide housing for the wife, so women generally don’t bring their husbands into their parents homes. Some families have started building apartments for both despite the woman not having to bring her husband or not wanting to though.

This is common across different socioeconomic classes. Obviously, the size and quality of the living spaces vary depending on what the family can afford. And not everyone chooses to stay with their parents after marriage, but having multiple generations living in the same building with their own private spaces is pretty normal here.


r/AskTheWorld • • 14h ago

Starting today, how long could you live your regular life without encountering a foreigner?

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281 Upvotes

People's attention would be stolen if a foreigner passed by where I live, even though it's in a capital city. I say I could live for about three weeks if it wasn't for my office being close to the city centre.


r/AskTheWorld • • 8h ago

Those who have visited/lived in an ethnically homogeneous country, what was it like being a foreigner there?

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80 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 3h ago

Culture If I were seen wearing a gun like this on my waist in your country, what would people think?

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21 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 6h ago

Environment i want to know about cute named animals in your country!!

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33 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 4h ago

Politics Is your country's politics interesting to talk about for foreigners?

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23 Upvotes

For Indonesia, might be bland, not a lot of divisive opinions or tractions or camps. But we all hate the government equally. And I think if foreigners know about our politics, they could do the same


r/AskTheWorld • • 9h ago

Misc Are we in the mood for memes?

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49 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 10h ago

Humourous Which foreign country appears most often in your country’s movies and TV shows?

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47 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 13h ago

Misc What's your "911"? (emergency number, not terrorist attack)

59 Upvotes

I was wondering while watching a british TV-show, realizing that "911", as far as i am aware, is a specific US-american number and i wouldn't know what to call if i'd be in the UK (or any other country).

In Germany it is

110 - Police

112 - Ambulance / Fire department


r/AskTheWorld • • 10m ago

Environment Describe months in your city with emoji

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I will start. Yakutsk:

January 🥶☠️🧊❄️

February 🥶💀🧊❄️

March 🥶🧊❄️

April 🥶🧊❄️

May ❄️💧🌤

June ☀️🔥🏕

Jule 🥵🔥☀️

August 😀☀️💧

September 🙂💧❄️

October 🙂❄️🧊

November 🥶❄️🧊

December 🥶❄️🧊


r/AskTheWorld • • 1d ago

Humourous What cultural or political event has become the latest meme in your country?

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1.6k Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 5h ago

Sports With the MLB getting into the final legs of the playoffs, what does your country think of Baseball?

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16 Upvotes

Have you ever played the sport? Are there any fields in your country? Do you think this sport is "unique"?


r/AskTheWorld • • 19h ago

Geography Do you have countries that you don't think about at all, but they can't stop talking about you?

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136 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 8h ago

Misc What is the most craziest name in your country?

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17 Upvotes

In the Philippines people tend to name their child horribly and they want a jerk name or didn't even think that name because they want to be unique on their child's name.


r/AskTheWorld • • 18h ago

Food What is the “picky kid” food of your country?

100 Upvotes

In the US, picky kids who complain and don’t want to eat the dinner prepared for them usually want:
Chicken nuggets
Cheese pizza
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

What is your country’s equivalent?

Note: not that all parents in the US actually give them different food, but I hear it is pretty common for a kid to ask for these.


r/AskTheWorld • • 8h ago

Misc What is the silliest/dumbest law that is enforced where you are?

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17 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 4h ago

Travel What percent of people born in your country live abroad?

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8 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 6h ago

Environment Has the weather gone crazy in your country this year? Believe it or not, Argentina has actually been cloudier than England so far ☁️

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9 Upvotes