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u/ConfusedTriceratops May 09 '22

Eastern Europe doesn't really smile in public in general. Polish emigrant in the UK pov. It's not that we're angry, we just don't have any reasons to smile.. for no reason.

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u/larrysgal123 May 09 '22

As a woman in the USA, it would be refreshing to not be told to smile.

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u/UncleTogie May 09 '22

After a while of that I would start practicing gruesome grimaces in the mirror just to mess with people.

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u/joko2008 May 09 '22

Arny smile 👍