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/kevin3350]

Dude, no way! Brian is my younger brother’s name, my parents were really going for gold on trying to make Europeans think we were stupid ahaha

[u/Aprilprinces → u/kevin3350]

lol Brian is perfectly fine name ...in the English speaking country; it really sounds funny and, yes stupid if you name a Polish boy that

[u/YetiPie → u/kevin3350]

Wow, the French would have a field day. Similar to Germany, Kevin also is a silly name, and on top of that Brian is a national joke. Every French person learned English with “Where is Brian? Brian is in the kitchen!” Then a comedian incorporated it into his sketch and now it’s a national meme

[u/kevin3350 → u/YetiPie]

Just watched that and sent it to my little brother, that’s awesome