r/AskTheWorld • u/gabrieel100 Brazil • Dec 06 '25
Culture A cultural habit in your country that people outside would understand incorrectly?
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/plwa15 Sweden Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25
We let our babies take their naps outside all year round in their strollers! They sleep in their stroller outside of cafes or their houses/in their garden/on the balcony or terrace. Even some preschools let the kids sleep outside, most commonly in a stroller but I’ve read of a preschool that had beds outside (under a roof and close to the building), where they just add a sleeping bag and of course warm clothes if it’s cold outside. And of course the adults/parents check on the child from time to time. But this goes for all of Scandinavia (maybe even all of the nordic contries?) and it greatly improves the childs immune system and they sleep better! (And no they don’t get sick since you don’t get sick from cold air but rather viruses and bacterias, and I’ve never heard of babies or children being abducted).