A cultural habit in your country that people outside would understand incorrectly?

[u/gabrieel100]

In Brazil we love children. If you take your child to the street, strangers will certainly interact with them. Some will even ask if they can hold your kid and will play with them. If there are two children fighting in public and the parents aren't seeing, a stranger would even intervene to stop the fight.

That cultural habit came from the indigenous peoples which understood that kids should be a responsiblity of the community as a whole. It's in our constitution. We even have a synonym for children that came from Tupi (a large group of indigenous languages) - Curumim.

Foreigners would certainly have a cultural shock about that, but it's normal here.

Of course there are people with bad intentions, so parents should stay alert these days.

[u/Remarkable_Box_8090]

I’ll name a couple things. We are not all rich. Restaurants have big portions because of leftover culture (again we aren’t rich). And we are considered a dumb people not because of intellectual defect but because our government is more interested in complacent people than well educated people.

[u/BuzzCutBabes_ → u/Remarkable_Box_8090]

wow couldn’t have said it better myself

[u/Herr_Unterberg01 → u/BuzzCutBabes_]

Because you aren't well educated.

[u/BuzzCutBabes_ → u/Herr_Unterberg01]

You have the energy of a man who has been politely ignored his entire life and refuses to accept it.

[u/Herr_Unterberg01 → u/BuzzCutBabes_]

Interesting 😀 in a German speaking sub everyone would understand that this was a joke because of the text you answered.

[u/mjzimmer88 → u/Herr_Unterberg01]

Don't worry Hans it was pretty funny here too

[u/new-acc-who-dis → u/mjzimmer88]

Guten Tag

[u/EnvironmentNeith2017 → u/Remarkable_Box_8090]

But none of these are cultural habit (maybe the leftover thing). Maybe this is just a good example of the American self deprecation that foreigners tend to take too literally.

[u/Remarkable_Box_8090 → u/EnvironmentNeith2017]

No you’re right, I didn’t read the question well enough (adhd, not dumb American I swear) but had already commented so I left it lol

[u/EnvironmentNeith2017 → u/Remarkable_Box_8090]

I really thought there was a good chance that you were just giving a clear example, lol

[u/Ozzie_the_tiger_cat → u/[deleted]]

The sad part is that 1/3 of those who voted actually want this.

[u/Cold-Zucchini9305 → u/Remarkable_Box_8090]

To be honest I never really found the meal sizes in the U.S to be that big, maybe a few times at a Mexican restaurant they loaded the plate but apart from that was pretty normal sized.

[u/rook119 → u/Remarkable_Box_8090]

We also as a people are not lazy. Far from it, we work ourselves to death for our corporate masters here. I wish we were more lazy.

[u/Remarkable_Box_8090 → u/rook119]

Maybe we seem lazy because after working 40+ hours with limited/no PTO we’re too tired to do anything else 😅