What are some customs you appreciate from other people?

Isn't it tea and strumpets?

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Tea and Trumpets

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I don't think that's Anglish, baw.

The Rusty Trombone - Your mom

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ing water over girls and lightly whipping them with braided branches, are the most controversial of Easter traditions. As The Foreigner's Guide to Living in Slovakia explains, “if you are not Slovak and didn’t grow up around these traditions, you might find them at best—odd, at worst—barbaric.”

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Asian - no shoes in da house

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That's the truth.

However, it's all fun and games until you have to stomp on a cockroach.

I know Islam is not a very popular subject in the OT but I was AWESTRUCK during a port visit to Abu Dhabi.

Around midday we were in the city's open air market. All of the mosques started playing their "call to prayer". I watched an entire city of 2 million people stop what they were doing, shops closed, streets emptied of traffic for about 30 minutes while residents prayed.

There were about 4 mosques around the market, each singing their own prayer.

It was incredible and beautiful to watch.

Islam gets rightfully criticized at times. It is a shame that terrorism and violence overshadows some of the more beautiful aspects of Islam.

no, but they did get busy in a burger king bathroom...

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Tea and Trumpets

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Tea and crumpets.

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Search this site Show More InformationShow Mobile NavigationListverse Logo NEXT PREVIOUS TwitterGoogle+FacebookPinterest MISCELLANEOUS 10 Bizarre Aspects of Japanese Culture MIKE DEVLIN MAY 26, 2013 Japan can be an odd place. No other country in the world has experienced such a confluence of tradition, technology, and circumstance. Feudal samurai ideals clash with cutting edge computers; aged survivors of the only country which endured the full wrath of the atomic bomb mix with teenagers in Pokemon outfits. Although it hosts one of the most massive economies on the planet, Japan is extremely insular, and its culture is often misunderstood by outsiders. Below are ten of the strangest aspects of Japanese culture—from sex, to snacks, to death.10 Hikikomori Screen Shot 2013-05-26 At 6.26.20 PmAlthough Earth’s population is rising at an exponential rate, the Japanese are slowly dying off behind an aging infrastructure. Compounding the problem is a growing problem: the shut-in “hikikomori.” To be sure, every society is home to a small number of people who could be described as “reclusive”—though most of these recluses tend to be older individuals, marked with mental illnesses such as depression and agoraphobia. Japan’s hikikomore hermits, on the other hand, are decidedly young. They’re mostly disaffected teenagers and twenty-somethings, withdrawn almost completely from society. There is no precise explanation to account for the rise in hikikomori, though there are several known contributing factors, including the rise of the internet, intense academic pressures, and parents willing to shelter their children well into adulthood. Psychiatrists (many of whom are forced to make house calls to visit their patients), have only recently set upon the task of helping the group dubbed by some as “the missing million.”

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I wish our nerds and hipsters would just vanish like that.

Indonesians only smoke kretek cigarettes.

Indian Catholics usually have wine from monasteries. It is extremely old and basically a homemade port.

The older cajun French speakers of louisiana will open their home to a stranger if he speaks french.