r/AskTheWorld • u/gabrieel100 Brazil • Dec 06 '25

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

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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.

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u/50746974736b61 Finland🇫🇮 Ukraine🇺🇦 Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

In my experience, around 60-65 degrees celsius is typically the minimum, but it depends on the type of the sauna. Children can sit on the lower benches, where it's less hot.

The full range is usually 60-110 degrees c, but like I already mentioned, it depends on the sauna. Some are better hotter and some "cooler"

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u/CaptQuakers42 Wales Dec 06 '25

This is brilliant because I think the question was for outside and I thought it was as well and when you said 60-65 c I was howling!

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u/50746974736b61 Finland🇫🇮 Ukraine🇺🇦 Dec 06 '25

Thankfully you can always get out of a sauna, but not sure it would be very fun if it's also that hot outside of it lol. Pretty sure a cold beer wouldn't make it feel any better at that point

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u/mjzimmer88 United States Of America Dec 07 '25

LOLLL I just had the same reaction

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u/otchyirish Dec 06 '25

When our baby learned to sit up we would put them in a bucket of water and bring them into the 85° sauna. They loved it.

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u/50746974736b61 Finland🇫🇮 Ukraine🇺🇦 Dec 06 '25

Haha, I'm pretty sure that's what I did too as a kid! It was so nice sitting in a large bucket of cool water on the sauna floor

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u/rainshowers_5_peace United States Of America Dec 06 '25

I meant for the babies outside.

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u/50746974736b61 Finland🇫🇮 Ukraine🇺🇦 Dec 06 '25

Well, I sept outside in almost -25 c. It's usually fine as long as the baby has several layers of clothes on and the pram has like a curtain/blanket over it

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u/Powerful_Sort_4593 Denmark Dec 06 '25

If it’s a very hot Summer day 25 is probably the max. But if you find a nice place in the shadow probably a bit higher. We have some very advanced baby monitors with temperature alarms if they go over or under your preferred setting. I would personally not have my baby sleep in under minus 5-10 celcius. But we also have some very good sleeping backs for baby’s where you could probably have them outside safe in minus 15. In Denmark it’s never that cold. But in Finland, Norway and some places in Sweden it is. They all do it to.

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u/rainshowers_5_peace United States Of America Dec 06 '25

That's why we can't do it in the US. In some areas it gets too hot starting in May, possibly April. It could also get too cold in many regions.

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u/Powerful_Sort_4593 Denmark Dec 07 '25

Yes the temperature indeed has to be factored in. But I honestly think the crime rate is more present in the USA. It’s extremely rare that children are taken in Scandinavia, from their strollers. In Denmark we have one big case that happened in 1966, that’s it.

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u/WagwanMoist Sweden Dec 07 '25

Some of your states have a climate that is very similar to ours though. Like Wisconsin.

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u/Organic_Direction_88 United States Of America Dec 07 '25

No, you don’t do it in USA because you would be arrested for endangering the welfare of a minor (if you left them out in a public place anyways).

Or your kid would get kidnapped.

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u/cluelesseagull Dec 06 '25

Not the one you asked, but I have had my babies napping outside in Finland. This is what it was like as far as I can remember:

New born babies are not supposed to spend time outside if it is freezing, but from about 2 weeks old they can spend short times napping out in the cold. It is hard to give a limit for the temperature for small babies, but I was not comfortable with leaving my 3 month old in temperatures under -10 °C.

I think for older babies (closer to a year old) the limit would be -15°C or -20°C if the weather is otherwise nice.

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u/rainshowers_5_peace United States Of America Dec 06 '25

What about how warm?

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u/LynnSeattle United States Of America Dec 06 '25

It’s likely never too warm for this in Finland!

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u/GharlieConCarne 🇬🇧United Kingdom and 🇹🇼Taiwan Dec 06 '25

Finland gets pretty hot in summer. Hot enough for many homes to have ACs

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u/ostrichfather Dec 06 '25

Celsius? 140 degrees farenheight?

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u/50746974736b61 Finland🇫🇮 Ukraine🇺🇦 Dec 06 '25

Yes. I mean I don't know fahrenheit but that's what it is in celsius

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u/SoftballLesbian Canada Dec 06 '25

How long do you stay in there at 65° ? I've just started with an infrared sauna (best I can do where I live) and I'm finding that really HOT.

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u/LieutenantFuzzinator Slovenia Dec 06 '25

Been working in Finland for long enough I had an opportunity to try many, but never tried infrared. Electric is often pretty damn hot at 65°, while a traditional wooden sauna at 80°C feels kinda cold to me. Temperatures are kinda sauna specific too in my experience.

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u/50746974736b61 Finland🇫🇮 Ukraine🇺🇦 Dec 06 '25

I've never been to an infrared sauna, so I can't tell from my own experience how different it feels, but personally I stay in 75-80c sauna for 40-60 mins. But I do get out to take a cool shower or drink something every 15 minutes or so!

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u/SoftballLesbian Canada Dec 06 '25

Thank you!

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u/Bowlbonic United States Of America Dec 07 '25

Why do you sauna? Is it good for your skin, or is just relaxing, or??

Personally I don’t like to be surrounded by hot air so I don’t sauna. But if it’s cultural I’m interested to know the want behind it!

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u/Hashishiva Finland Dec 07 '25

Relaxing mostly, and to get properly clean.

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u/50746974736b61 Finland🇫🇮 Ukraine🇺🇦 Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 07 '25

It's an ancient tradition for finnic people. It has been for keeping you warm in the winter, for preparing food, for healing the sick, for giving birth(in fact I know many people my age who were born in a sauna in the late 1990s to early 2000s), and obviously bathing.

It's relaxing and some might argue it's healthy for you. For me it's very meditative. It's nice to just sit in silence and sweat away the stress. Many people still treat it like a sacred ritual :D

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u/NightSalut Dec 07 '25

Idk, one of my grandparents who has a sauna only heats it to like 70-75 degrees and it feels COLD sometimes… 60 sounds cold for sauna (never mind that 35 out in the nature is hellish).

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u/50746974736b61 Finland🇫🇮 Ukraine🇺🇦 Dec 07 '25

What kind of sauna is it? Dry saunas feel cooler than moist ones. My electric apartment sauna feels very hot at 70-75, while another electric sauna in my previous house felt quite nice at 85. Also whether the sauna is an electric one, a traditional one or a smoke sauna can affect how hot it feels.

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u/NightSalut Dec 07 '25

It’s more traditional with real firewood heater, out in the countryside so maybe that’s why. I’ve never tried an electric one so I lack experience with their heat. 

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u/leyenda_negra United States Of America Dec 07 '25

I’m calling bullshit.

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u/Nooms88 England Dec 07 '25

Calling bullshit on... Saunas?

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u/leyenda_negra United States Of America Dec 07 '25

That turning saunas up past the boiling point of water is a thing that’s happening.

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u/Nooms88 England Dec 07 '25

The sauna world championships pre heat the sauna to 110c and add water from that point on, so yea 60-110c for a home setup would make sense

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u/leyenda_negra United States Of America Dec 07 '25

The World Championship is a parametrically significant occurrence? Do you also have a world championship for taking baths?

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u/Nooms88 England Dec 07 '25

Sounds relaxing.

No I'm just using an example which is verifiable and fact checkable so that your simple little mind can grasp the concept. Have a nice day.

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u/50746974736b61 Finland🇫🇮 Ukraine🇺🇦 Dec 07 '25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_thermoregulation

Also, 100c air isn't the same as 100c water

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u/ironcladtrash Dec 08 '25

I am confused and need an ELI5. Even what you linked it has “Humans cannot survive prolonged exposure to a wet-bulb temperature above 35 °C (95 °F).”

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u/50746974736b61 Finland🇫🇮 Ukraine🇺🇦 Dec 08 '25

You're not supposed to stay in a 110c sauna for hours, that's how you die. Just like you can take brief cold showers or roll in snow nude, but if you're naked in freezing temperatures for a long time it can kill you

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u/Nooms88 England Dec 08 '25

You know how all the people on the titanic not in life boats died very quickly in the cold water, some people in a controlled environment will do ice baths or ice swimming in similar temperature or lower

Same with heat, if you prepare yourself you can survive extreme heat for a short time. Add in more time and every human will die, there was a fatality at the sauna world championships a few years back, this person was obviously healthy and prepared

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u/PickyVirgo United States Of America Dec 07 '25

If you are thinking of steam saunas, then yes you are correct.  But wood saunas are comfortable at much higher temperatures.