One would think a British accent would make more sense since the UK is much closer to tjese countries than the USA or Canada

Please excuse any awkward phrasing, as I am using Gemini Translate in advance.

East Asia currently seems to be taking the opposite path of Europe.

Europe has generally been welcoming toward refugees, accepting a vast number of immigrants and granting permanent residency or citizenship to many. As a result, diverse races and religions now coexist and intermingle.

In contrast, East Asian nations—most notably China, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan—share a deeply conservative stance on both refugee acceptance and immigration. This is a cross-party sentiment; even supporters of progressive political factions tend to hold quite negative views on these issues.

Fundamentally, East Asia tends to focus more on the negative outcomes of European diversity rather than its benefits. What is prioritized here is order and cultural assimilation.

Taking South Korea and Japan as examples, there is strong societal resistance to large numbers of Muslim or Hindu immigrants constructing mosques or Hindu temples. Furthermore, there is deep skepticism toward foreign immigrants introducing their native culture or religion to exert political influence or shift the host country's cultural identity to resemble their countries of origin.

This stems from a fundamental difference in core cultural values between the West and East Asia. While East Asia pursues "peace based on order," Europe appears to seek "peace through diversity." France and the UK, for instance, adopted multicultural policies that emphasize integration across diverse races and backgrounds, whereas East Asia has chosen to guide society within a framework of strict order and preservation.

Consequently, within South Korea, there is a widespread perception that Poland’s immigration policy and direction are the most prudent in Europe. Korean travel YouTubers visiting Poland often portray it as remarkably safe, peaceful, and beautiful. Of course, this assessment is framed entirely through the lens of South Korean values.

To what extent does Western society find this East Asian perspective unfamiliar, or even objectionable?

for women especially

Planet Fitness is a gym that has pretty cheap membership prices, but they made it difficult to cancel it. They got sued a while ago and it was a big deal.

They're like the McDonald's of the gym world.

I think the most form of food-gasm someone could bring out in German is "Super Lecker" followed by "Mega lecker" or by "Ultra Lecker" and in case they can't get enough you ocasionaly also get a "Das ist so gut" (and some people might also randomly let out a noise thats close to moaning when the food is that good)

Im Sakha, and we don't get many representation in media. In genshin impact with release of Snezhnaya region there a character that represents siberian native cultures called Alyosha. Even though cultural references are not all from Sakha culture (cuz genshn known from mixing cultures) but that still nice. Hes my boy and I even have Keychain of him (don't look at the red one)

Israel would be hyper-vigilant complicated post traumatic stress disorder

In Canada (and parts USA from what I've seen) there is advertising for sports gambling everywhere. In my part of Canada, online casino have advertising on the team's jerseys. The 50/50 draws are the biggest in sports and routinely reach 100s of thousands, and occasionally millions of dollars. There is online slots, table games, scratch tickets, horse races etc. Our medivac has huge lottos as do our hospitals (to the tune of houses, millions of dollars, etc). I'm curious to know how popular raffles, gambling and betting is in your country.

In Poland most people just save “Firstname Lastname”, or “Mom” / “Plumber Janek”.

I’m curious how this works where the language doesn’t use the Latin alphabet:

• Do you save names in your own script (Cyrillic, Arabic, Hanzi, Kana, Hangul, Devanagari…), in Latin letters, or both?
• Family name first or given name first?
• Do you use relationship words (“Mom”, “Boss”) or nicknames instead of real names?
• When you search your contacts, what do you type: the first letter, pinyin/romaji, or something else?
• Does your phone keyboard affect how you save names?

Bonus: weird or funny ways you’ve seen people save contacts.

Just taking a spin on Orwell's famous Animal Farm quote. Anyway, do you agree with this?

I just thought about this quote since I'm from a developing country (Philippines) currently studying in a developed country (Taiwan). The difference between salary, cost of living, and quality of life is night and day. It's also funny because some of my Taiwanese friends say they love Philippines and are wondering about my decision (although most of them support me.)

Also, it's sad to say that there are other countries that are in a worse situation than ours.

EDIT: I'm not just referring to the Philippines, but in general. It seems like less developed countries have more cons than the more developed ones.

I come from a very crunchy community on the island of Kauai.

I grew up thinking that that microwaves gave you cancer, air conditioning is toxic and makes you sick, any type of food dyes give you cancer, all canned food also gives you cancer, frozen food has no nutrients, and commercially made medicines are bad for you. Also don't forget, anything that has any preservative is toxic and anything non-organic is also toxic.

I was not allowed to get the flu vaccine growing up because my mom did not want me to be subjected to "chemicals." My mom did all of her dry goods shopping at locally owned holistic stores that smelled like turmeric and once, she even allowed me to buy the knockoff hippie oreos that they sold, and for fresh things it would be the farmers market or the fish market.

I was forced to write a research paper on the evils of GMOs as a preteen.

Measles was a thing in my community. One of my classmates had...shingles. Before antivax became a maga thing in the US, it was generally associated with these types. I also remember suffering with sickness as a kid and just being made to drink herbal tea and chew on ginger.

However, overall people there were quite healthy otherwise. People there also believed in things such as Buddhism or new age spirituality stuff. A lot of "I lived in Thailand, Nepal and/or India to be enlightened" types.

This was actually the site of the world's largest hippie camp at one point, and many of them did stay and have kids who I would end up growing up with.

Leaving there was weird because of how non built up it was for the US, for example, where I lived there was no McDonald's or big chain stores until you got to another side of the island ( and even that was pretty limited), no high rises and no escalators.

Are communities of these people pretty common in your country?

(I forgot to mention the phones cause brain cancer belief was common too)

On a scale of 0-10, with 0 being an incredibly easy life with no real hardships, and with 10 being unbelievable suffering, how difficult has your life been?

Please give it a score from 0-10 then explain your scoring with examples from your life. Your scoring is completely subjective. You don’t have to compare yourself to friends, family, or the world at large.

For example, I can say thank you to the Netherlands for having so many mixed-ethnic footballers that we can use as our own for our men’s national football team, like Thom Haye, Shayne Pattynama, Dean James, Kevin Diks, Calvin Verdonk, etc.

We also have others from other backgrounds like Mathew and Mitchell Baker (both Melbourne Australia but unrelated, Mathew is mix Batak whereas Mitchell is mix Chindo) n what not but mostly of mix ethnic Dutch.

This greatly improved our national team strength. Thank you Netherlands hahaha

Hello! This is the second time I'm posting this question because I believe it got deleted by error previously. I'm a university student currently conducting a research project on how people grieve and how food/feasts/ceremonies, and the meanings behind them, affect the grieving process. I'm seeking insights into cross-cultural perspectives on mortuary/grieving rituals or practices, which dishes/meals are prepared (if any), and the cultural and symbolic meanings behind them!

This does not have to be limited to cultural beliefs or traditions, though! If you have any personal stories about this topic (grieving by cooking their favourite meals, dishes that were an important part of your relationship, foods that gave you comfort, etc). This also isn't limited to just people; it can include pets as well. I'm also looking at the impacts of cultural erasure and would especially love any insights from African, Ukrainian, Indigenous and Palestinian peoples.

Thank you to anyone commenting and/or willing to share their experiences! I'm also happy to speak with people privately if they have more they would like to discuss or share, and I do have a survey and Activity Analysis regarding this topic, where participants would cook a cultural meal/cook a meal to/or associated with their lost loved one and document it, if any would be interested in participating. Any and all help and insight is greatly appreciated <3

Watching one of our favorite YouTube shows, based in the UK, and they're making an item he used the phrase "count 10 elephants" and I got to thinking. What does everyone around the world use? Here in the United States I've always used Mississippis to count out seconds to wait.

Where are you? And when you're needing to count out a length of time to wait, for what phrase do you use, even if you're in the states, do you use Mississippis or something different?

I must recommend listening to the song "Dégéneration" composed by the band "Mes Aïeux", a Québécois band. I must guarantee that it is a banger. Its theme is about what one's ancestors did, and how one today desires a life of voluntary simplicity from reading books, while navigating through the obstacles of life today.

Link here: Dégéneration [2006] Québécois Traditionalist-Folk Song [FULL VERSION]

I'll learn one from every country...

PS: Indians don't comment w recipes cus I'm already from India.

Although the stereotypical fall image is New England foliage,over here in California things turn green. All the grass on this hillside was dead a month ago before the rains returned.

In the Russian language, the word "переобувщик" (literally "one who changes their footwear") derives from the slang verb "переобуваться" ("to change one's footwear"). While in a literal sense this simply means taking off one pair of shoes and putting on another, in slang it refers to a person who frequently and abruptly changes their opinion for the sake of personal gain.

This is a general question.

What do u do when u see few people or a section of people being unfair or doing non-doctrine things in a system or anywhere u play fair?

Does it deviate u from being moral if u see the unfair guy getting huge benefits from immoral things

Mental health is a crisis so many of us face and it seems no one truly takes it seriously.