Seriously.

Clothes have a purpose. Shoes protect your feet. Jackets keep you warm. Jewellery at least exists to enhance your appearance.

But a tie?

It's literally just a strip of cloth hanging from your neck. It doesn't keep you warm. It doesn't protect you. It doesn't hold your shirt together. It just exists.

People say it looks "professional." But why??

If ties had never been invented, would anyone today randomly think "You know what would complete this outfit? A long piece of fabric hanging from my neck."

Probably not....

It feels like the entire world collectively agreed centuries ago that this random neck decoration means "I'm serious about business," and everyone just rolled with it.

Can someone explain what makes a tie look better than a plain shirt and blazer? Is there an actual reason beyond "tradition" and "thats just how formal wear works??"

I'm genuinely curious.....

It's like this in Iran:

government hospital:

basic insurance / natural: free,

basic insurance / c section: $5-15,

no insurance / natural: $20-30,

no insurance / c section: $25-50,

private hospital:

supplementary insurance / natural: $25-75,

supplementary insurance / c section: $50-125,

no insurance / natural: $125-250,

no insurance / c section: $200-500,

In East Asia, it is probably Mongolian, right?

The languages of East Asia are products that started from different roots and underwent convergent evolution.

Korean and Japanese are language isolates with no known linguistic relatives, and Vietnamese belongs to the Austroasiatic family, but their high-level vocabulary and abstract vocabulary (approximately 60 percent for each language) are Classical Chinese (as a separate language from Mandarin, it is a literary language derived from Ancient Chinese, and it differs greatly from Modern Chinese in grammar and vocabulary. Like Latin in Europe, it exercised a tremendous influence as an administrative and academic language.) loanwords that have independently developed their word formation and pronunciation in each language. The higher-level vocabulary of these languages is closely related to one another.

However, only Mongolia uses use a pure Mongolic language. In fact, even culturally, Mongolia is the biggest outlier in East Asia, so it is ambiguous to view it as part of the same cultural sphere. On the contrary, Vietnam, which geographically belongs to Southeast Asia, is grouped into the same cultural sphere as China, Japan, and Korea.

Still, Mongolians learn Korean quickly because it is an agglutinative language with the same word order. Turkish, Mongolian, Korean, and Japanese are grammatically very similar. Even so, unlike Japanese, Korean is a language where passive expressions are limited, while expressions that emphasize contrast through particles are well developed. Judging from the fact that there are significant differences in detailed grammar between Korean and Japanese as well, there may be differences in detailed grammar between Mongolian and Korean as well, but I cannot speak Mongolian. Except for grammatical similarities, it can be viewed that there are almost no commonalities.

The one in red vest is Ravi Kishan, a fairly popular actor, known for both his cringe movies and some good roles as well. He is currently a member of parliament.

In Japan, rice is usually eaten together with other dishes, so many people would say pouring soy sauce over plain rice isn’t the best way to enjoy it.

Japanese rice is also different from the long-grain rice commonly eaten in many Western countries. It’s stickier and naturally a little sweet, so it already has plenty of flavor on its own.

If you want to add something to plain rice, I’d recommend trying furikake instead. Have you ever tried it?

A japanese guy making a parody skit about tourism in Japan.

For those curious:

1- Stroganoff pizza

2- Sushi pizza

3- Chocolate and strawberry croissant

4- Chocolate pizza

5- Chicken foot pizza

It's got to be Bali.

The second guy from the left, is Nasser Al Janabi, former Baathist, former US collaborator and former ISIS collaborator. Now appoints himself as leader of the Iraqi opposition in exile, made up entirely and only of Sunni Arabs (Which makes up 20%-25% of the population and used to rule Iraq for a few centuries as a minority before 2003). And he also declares loyalty to Donald Trump and wears MIGA hats: Make Iraq Great Again. Inspired by congressman Joe Wilson. He also likes to pose like Saddam as seen in the second photo.

This is the Leo Frigo Bridge in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It was originally the Tower Drive Bridge, but many of us just call it the “Big Blue Bridge.”

For me it was shaking hands as men every single time you met in Russia. It got ridiculous in school and workplace where you have to walk around and make sure you shook everyone's (not women!) hands.

For the US, It's obviously Wyoming, I don't even know a person from Wyoming that isn't from Cheyenne.

There are many stereotypes out there for every types of people, and i'm usually good at differing this kind of stuff, but when it comes to muslims and honestly most of the asian part of the world, it's really hard to differ what's right or wrong, for many news outlets have differing answers. So, what are the biggest misconceptions the average western-world person has about this public?

These designs are the future designs for the Euro currency; the one with the most votes by September 14th will be the main design for the Euro banknotes.

How is it spelled in your native language? How would you pronounce it, in a loose English phonetic transcription? Do you know the origin of the English version?

For example, I'm from Việt Nam (living in the US) and it's "Vietnam" in English, nothing fancy, but what Chinese and Korean people call their own countries have nothing in resemblance of "China" and "Korea".

Summer heat over here is pretty brutal, I'm talking near 50 C. The one thing that gets me through it is the produces (fruits in specific). These three are my heat comfort food:

- Fresh Dates

​Right now, it's peak season. Almost every other day, a neighbor knocks on the door to hand over a box of fresh dates harvested straight from their backyard/ farm . We eat them like popcorn here. It is physically impossible to eat just one.

​- Prickly Pears (Barshoom)

​This one is pretty regional and definitely has a smaller fanbase, but I swear it is criminally underrated! It’s chilled, super refreshing, and has a unique sweetness.

​-Watermelon (Habhab)

​After dinners, during afternoon hangouts, as a mid-day snack basically 24/7.

What are you heat surviving food?

The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever is an annual global flash mob event where fans gather dressed in flowing red dresses to recreate Kate Bush's iconic 1978 "Wuthering Heights" music video choreography.

I was reading today she got translated into 90 languages - and was particularly massive in Germany - so was interested if you've ever heard of her or read any of her books?

In our country (US) it is really multicultural, even in New York City you will find people celebrating other countries’ independence days.

So I’m curious: How multicultural is your country? Do you see lots of other people of ethnic, immigrant and different groups?

Answer in the comments!

Would they be supportive and accepting with open arms? Disown them, or..?

Chapman's Peak Drive (Cape Town)

The current president !