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⌈ Secret Post #3492 ⌋

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Comments

Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

Put examples of times where you've experienced or observed this in your life.

Re: Culture Clash

[morieris]

Apparently garbage disposals are not something people have world wide.

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

The sink kind? I'm American and I don't have one, but some people said they are more common here than elsewhere.

They sort of creep me out, though I guess I'd appreciate it if I lived in an apartment because I don't like the idea of putting food scraps in the trash (living in the suburbs, I compost food waste).

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

They aren't! And as an American, they've always terrified me - like what if I stick my hand down there or something and it goes off?! who the hell invented something so terrible?!

Also unnecessary, put yo' food in the trash.

In Japan, sinks have little "catch containers" below the drain that will catch extra food, but water still gets through. So once it gets too full, you just scrape the contents in the garbage.

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

I never had one until I lived in an apartment. They are a godsend for apartments though, especially if you have to walk a ways to get to the dumpster.

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

I spilled some yogurt on my black t-shirt.

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

That sucks, anon.

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

HA!

6/10, would lol again

Re: Culture Clash

[kallanda_lee]

Not everyone has water cookers. The horror.

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, how do you cook water? Assuming you don't just mean boiling it.

Re: Culture Clash

[morieris]

so I looked that up and...i'm getting 'electric kettle'

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

Is that like a tea kettle? I don't have one of those either. I just boil my tea water in a small pot.

Re: Culture Clash

[sparrow_lately]

What's a water cooker?

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

Not everyone calls them "water cookers" either (I didn't realise what you meant until you posted the image).

My family's always had one, although the term we use is 'jug'.
They're definitely handy though.

Re: Culture Clash

[a_potato]

Ah, this is the thing I was going to mention. It was so weird to me when I came across people who had grown up with and swore by electric kettles. They were all like, "how do you boil water?!" and I was like, "um on the stove?" and they thought that was barbaric but I didn't understand why you'd need a separate appliance for a thing that you can do with another appliance.

Now that I've experienced the joy of an electric kettle firsthand, I get it.

Re: Culture Clash

[philstar22]

Definitely saw it a lot as an American kid growing up in the Philippines. Going both ways. And then coming back as well because some of that culture had become mine so I was now out of step with American culture.

Also my very liberal, socialist views now clashing with my parents and their friends' rather conservative views. And the rather conservative views of San Antonio, Texas in general. Even among people who are somewhat liberal, they still say things that make me wince.

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently to people in some cultures, you can talk to them nearly every day for over a year online (mainly in a group chat, but still), then fly all the way across an ocean to visit them and stay at their house at their invitation, and they'll still consider you someone they barely know.

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

Kissing on the cheek as a greeting. I know it's a custom for many people around the world, but it still surprised me when I met one of my online friends in real life and she gave me a kiss on each cheek.

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

I speak English. I've had to learn though that saying stuff I wold say in my native tongue may, if translated rather directly, cone off as incredible offensive or tinged either far left OR right wing.

Also omg our justice system is not about payback but rehabilitation. Imagine that! Apparently it's really unimaginable in some places.

Re: Culture Clash

[sparrow_lately]

I'm from the uptight, Catholic, heavy drinking, ivy-covered, emotionally constipated suburbs of Boston, MA. When I was 17 I spent an ill advised month in Southern California. I cried a lot.

Re: Culture Clash

[skeletal_history]

My father is Italian and every time I go to Italy to visit our family (his brother/my uncle, etc.), there's a culture clash of some kind.

Italians! What is up with your reluctance to embrace air conditioning AND/OR the invention of window screens?! It's sweltering hot, no air conditioning, I open the windows to get some relief, and the mosquitoes feast on my flesh all night long. SIAMO NEL XXI SECOLO DAI ALLORA

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

Traveling in England and staying at hotels that had carpeting in the bathroom. What the hell?

Also finding out that other countries don't use dish-drying cabinets that much.

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

Frito pie is a concept foreign to a lot of people who live outside of Texas apparently.

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

Garbage bags in heaps on the sidewalk. Why are there no bins? Living in Sweden and then seeing all the trash bags on the streets of central Rome during a hot summer weekend... London was the same. At least the area around Bethnal Green. Ick!

Re: Culture Clash

[(Anonymous)]

My family's Filipino. Our parents moved to the US in the 80s, making my sister and me first-generation Filipina-Americans. We went to school in a mostly white Catholic school from pre-K till 8th grade, and she and I both agree one of our biggest culture shocks was realizing it was a Filipino thing to eat rice and use forks and spoons rather than forks and knives, which is much less convenient to dine with even after having done it at eateries or households that don't offer spoons at the ready.

I think one of my more recent culture clashes is realizing how much of an emphasis Filipinos put on the family unit, whereas "mainstream" US citizens are more ready to distance themselves from their own under financial, ideological, etc. disagreements. It's something I'm trying to train myself to respect, but seeing someone proclaim how much they hate their family -- even if it's merited -- causes such a knee-jerk reaction of disgust because family is the most important thing to me.