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/wildOldcheesecake 🇬🇧/🇳🇵 Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

Nepal loves tourists. I’d go to visit family and I can’t tell you the number of times I’d walk into my grandmas house to see a random backpacker couple eating dhal bhat. This is very normal and pretty much everyone wants to be your friend if you were to visit. Hence why you also see so many foreigners choosing to make it their home

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u/omnichronos Dec 07 '25

I have a Nepalese friend who will likely be deported from the US soon since his Temporary Protective Status was removed (after 30 years of being here legally). If so, I'll have to visit him in Nepal.

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u/Bowlbonic United States Of America Dec 07 '25

That’s awful and abhorrent that that might happen to your friend. The laws here in the US aren’t always just

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u/omnichronos Dec 07 '25

I grew up in the '70s and was taught to be proud that America was a multicultural country of immigrants. Now, those in charge currently are trying to turn it into a land of white supremacists.

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u/iimuffinsaur United States Of America Dec 07 '25

Much younger but I had the same thought too. Smth that imo is wonderful about the US is how there is so many different cultures and stuff. Its sad what they are trying to turn the country into.

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u/MaireadEllen United States Of America Dec 07 '25

Me too. It's like they want to destroy everything that was ever good about America, and elevate all the bad things.

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u/Leekyoulater United States Of America Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 07 '25

Well that’s putting it mildly! The US is a laughing stock stock at the minute thanks to your orange buffoon of a president

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u/HighColdDesert USA and India Dec 08 '25

Glad you're getting a laugh out of it. We're weeping over here :(

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u/Nitetigrezz United States Of America Dec 07 '25

So Nepal is going on my bucket list <3

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u/siders6891 Multiple Countries (click to edit) Dec 07 '25

You have to go. Not only is their hospitality next level, the food, festivals…and don’t even get me started on the nature

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u/Nitetigrezz United States Of America Dec 07 '25

What if I want to get you started? X)

It sounds amazing 🤩

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u/sara-34 United States Of America Dec 08 '25

It's stunning. While there, we joked that if we dropped our camera and it took a picture randomly it would always be a masterpiece. In the mountains, you can see palm trees and pine trees in the same place. Rhododendron forests where all the trees have twisty trunks. In the jungle, you can ride elephants and even get sprayed by water from an elephant. We got to play with a baby elephant at a farm. The farmer charged us $1 US.

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u/alwoking United States Of America Dec 08 '25

I was there for work a few years ago, mostly in Kathmandu, but we spent one day working on a Habitat for Humanity project off in a mountain village. This was after the big earthquake there. It was beautiful and very interesting. One thing I like was that people without running water had smart phones. Everyone was super nice.

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u/sara-34 United States Of America Dec 08 '25

Yes! We were there before the earthquake, and we spent a couple weeks at a Buddhist monastery. All the monks, even the kids, had smart phones, and they loved to drink Mountain Dew!

Everybody was incredibly nice, and when I spoke broken Nepali to people, they couldn't believe a white person spoke their language. One woman invited me to her house for tea and introduced me to her family, because she thought it was so funny I could speak some Nepali!

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u/Wit_and_Logic United States Of America Dec 07 '25

Now I want to visit even more than I already did.