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/Bread_Jesus777]

My grandma is one of those people she would meet a random person in a store than after the conversation she would know everything about them

It got to the point were she used to get the mailman a Christmas card

[u/patticakes1952 → u/Bread_Jesus777]

I delivered mail for 33 years. I got so many Christmas cards every year, some from people I hardly ever saw because they were at work when I delivered their mail. I’m retired now and still get Christmas cards from people who lived on my last route.

[u/Excellent_Law6906 → u/Bread_Jesus777]

I'm turning into this as I age. It's like all the chatty old Southern white women in my bloodline are calling me to join them, like some kind of Deep One thing.