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People From Around The World Explain What's Common In Their Country But Rare In Others
As we know, "norms" is a misleading term. What is normal is far too relative for that word to carry much certainty.
Normal is defined by the social environment, a context that comes in a variety of sizes. The context could be a particular home, workplace, town, province, cultural group, or even an entire country.
A recent Reddit thread focused on the various norms of daily life established in all different countries. The common, ever-excepted mundane details of a nation apparently compel people to assume those quirks happen across the whole world.
So it's an eye-opening moment when one realizes that common trope is actually unique, weird, and rare literally everywhere else.
getfookenrekt asked, "What is a common thing in your country but rare in others?"
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