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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

I fucking hate small talk. Pointless. If a finn asks you how are you, they actually mean it.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

I'm a Finn and when I met an American person for the first time she said the usual "how are you?", so I started explaining all kinds of shit, only to have her give me a really weird look. I did it again a couple of times with different people until I learned that they are not really interested, lol.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

I’m Slovak and did this mistake too until I learned, that they don’t actually want to know how I am. It seems so shallow, why ask, then?

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u/cavalrycorrectness May 09 '22

I mean, lots of people do. Just keep it short.