Cultural Commons
15 years ago
Posts: 79
Quote from Brucie_kun
Quote from Klapzi
I'm Brazilian.
When I was 14 my geography teacher made the whole classroom work together and find out "What Brazilians have in common". And we only agreed on two things:
- We love football
- We eat rice and beans on a daily basis
Out of curiosity, do Brazilians put coffee into their cooking? 😕
If ur talking about the beans, there other types of beans besides coffee beans lol.
15 years ago
Posts: 1036
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Nuuuuu. Don't let those demonic chortling females corrupt your beautiful polite canadian boy soul. ;-;
;-;
See, here's the problem. I've discovered numerous times in my life that people can like me without respecting me. Conversely, people can dislike me while still respecting me. My experiences haven't turned me Machiavellian yet, but needless to say it wasn't always fun for me to merely be "liked". I'm sure you can understand.
Please be considerate of my predicament and others' in my situation. When I saw your comment, my initial, gut response was,
"Aw, she's disappointed. 🙁 I should apologize..."
... but when I put more thought into it (conscious effort into being inconsiderate)...
"Wait... Did she just call me a boy?" (a 28 yr old boy. lol)
Now, I know you meant no harm by that, but hopefully I've demonstrated my point without being explicit. 😛
I mean no harm, either. I just like polite canadian boys. ;D Your situation just seemed silly, going out of your way to be more impolite. x) And everyone is a kid at heart (nice try, though). <3
So here, I leave you with this:
Goodbye stranger, it's been nice
Hope you find your paradise
Tried to see your point of view
Hope your dreams will all come true~
15 years ago
Posts: 1005
Quote from WandereroftheDeep
Vancouver sounds like nice place, but I'd prefer a place where there aren't any dangerous animals.
In Vancouver 😕
There aren't any polar bears or moose or grizzlys roaming around the streets in Vancouver.
We do have bears up here in the Rocky Mountains, though.
I'm a typical Canadian who drinks double-doubles and blueberry tea, watches hockey, apologizes for everything and abuses the words "please and thank you".
Multiculturalism is a very normal thing for me: everyone I know has a different racial background (even relatives). Because of that we all have very different traditions and lifestyles, but all are still legitimately Canadian.
-Guilty of apologizing more than once for bumping into someone.-
15 years ago
Posts: 497
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Quote from WandereroftheDeep
Vancouver sounds like nice place, but I'd prefer a place where there aren't any dangerous animals.
In Vancouver 😕
There aren't any polar bears or moose or grizzlys roaming around the streets in Vancouver.
We do have bears up here in the Rocky Mountains, though.
I'm a typical Canadian who drinks double-doubles and blueberry tea, watches hockey, apologizes for everything and abuses the words "please and thank you".
Multiculturalism is a very normal thing for me: everyone I know has a different racial background (even relatives). Because of that we all have very different traditions and lifestyles, but all are still legitimately Canadian.
-Guilty of apologizing more than once for bumping into someone.-
Some time ago I saw a documetary on National Geographic from the series Hunter Hunted which focused on cougar attacks in/near Vancouver; so, the dangerous animals I'm referring to would be cougars.
15 years ago
Posts: 2707
I´m german
it´s hard to tell what is common because i don´t know people all over the country so i can´t compare our habits with theirs. When my mothers BF came here it was quite surprise because he had many different habits an commons. So i try to tell the facts i know:
-We eat bread on a regular basis
-side dishes are usually noodles, potatoes or rice (from the most used to the less used)
-We hate it if we are called Nazis and when other people make jokes about it
-we are not patriotic except it comes to sports and other competitons
-Most of us are either christian or atheists, but when it comes to marriage many don´t care about the differences
-homosexuality is nothing bad, but the word gay is used as an insult on not homosexual people sometimes.
-most of us don´t wear Dirndels or leatherpants
-people who don´t like football will still watch it when the WC or the EC airs, but that´s only since 2006
-the military careers aren´t very popular
-we drink alcohol before we reach the legal age
-molesting in buses and trains is very rare
-our cuisine is multicultural
-teachers don´t have so much authority as in other cultures and they have no responsibily for their students if they meet them outside of their worktime
-cheating in tests won´t destroy you reputation
-most rumors are treatend as untrue or joke until there is a proof
15 years ago
Posts: 390
Quote from Maxieflame
Quote from Brucie_kun
Quote from Klapzi
I'm Brazilian.
When I was 14 my geography teacher made the whole classroom work together and find out "What Brazilians have in common". And we only agreed on two things:
- We love football
- We eat rice and beans on a daily basis
Out of curiosity, do Brazilians put coffee into their cooking? 😕
If ur talking about the beans, there other types of beans besides coffee beans lol.
Maxie is right. This http://migre.me/524sV is what I'm talking about
Quote from ShadowSakura
-homosexuality is nothing bad, but the word gay is used as an insult on not homosexual people sometimes.
-we are not patriotic except it comes to sports and other competitons
-cheating in tests won´t destroy you reputation
1- Gay is the most used insult here in São Paulo, in other states they also call people homosexual when they mean to insult, but they use different words.
2- True here too. There are some "patriotic" states, but they only like people from their own state, not brazilians in general
3- No one gives a shit if you cheat or not here, To enter University you have to pass the university exams, in these exams it is impossible to cheat, so if you don't know you won't pass.
I actually like when people cheat. one less for me to take down. >:-(
15 years ago
Posts: 183
Croatian here.
The things I've noticed during my stays in the various parts of the country:
-We are heavy drinkers (getting hammered two-three times a week isn't that uncommon in the region I'm from. It makes me a sad panda when I see kids under 16 like that 🙁 ).
-We swear A LOT (and I don't mean the fu** or sh** kind of swearing, but the swears which involve your family, nationality, sexual orientation, religion and the like which are hard to translate into English).
-In my part of the country we eat bread and potatoes almost daily.
-We spend most of our free times in caffe bars (and by most of our free time I mean 3+ hours daily, especially students, me included 🙂 ).
-There's big hostility between the seaside and continental part of the country when it comes to soccer, but we're united when the national team plays (well, most of the time, but there're also times when a fight breaks out between hooligans and we get a lot of penalties from UEFA).
-We aren't that friendly unless you're tourists ($$$).
-We joke a lot about our neighbors (Slovenians, no offense to any Slovenians here) because of their small country and their sea.
-We complain a lot about various things, often without a valid reason, just because we can. I never get why people do that. Oh well...
-We're a quite lazy nation. 😐
"But why?"
"Because I can."
"OMFG, DON'T STAND IN THE FIRE!!!"
Member15 years ago
Posts: 3457
Quote from Brucie_kun
Pubs?
I don't drink and I don't normally go to pubs unless it's a social gathering; but it's something that is part of the British culture.Football
It's a big thing here.
Word of caution: Don't wear your favourite football jersey in public. This happened to my friend once, he was wearing an Arsenal T-shirt..the bus driver saw his shirt and said 'I don't want anyone wearing that shirt in my BUS'.
Yes, us British love our pubs and we love our football. Always giving a look of disapproval when we see someone wearing a football shirt of a team we don't like.
We're also very fond of Tea. Well I am anyway...
15 years ago
Posts: 1
I'm Brazilian Too
Brazil is so big, and had immigration for more than 200 years (specially europeans, africans and asians), that is difficult to say how is our culture... Where I live the Southeast of Brazil (são paulo), there is more than 16 million people living, lots of mixed races... and lots of manga lovers... cause most of japanese that immigrated are living here... Here we got lots of restaurants, shoppings, tall buildings, lots of people talking different languages (specially english, japanese and chinese) (at least the neighboorhod that I live)and it really resembles NY, except that the food its really better (rice and beans FTW!)... Here everbody loves coffee, and everbody drinks it, and it's not wrong to give children coffee it's normal really normal, i started drinking when i was 9 i guess...
I've been to Northeast of my country and there, things are really different... It's hot as hell, there they speak different, really different that is hard to understand, the food got lots of strong spices, there is lots of be-au-tiful beaches (here only shitty) with lots of palm trees... Oh shit I wanna go to Bahia now... I miss that place...
and the South, it's colder (there even snows sometimes) and more urban than the Northeast, many cultural places, shopping centers, museums and fewer people than the Southeast, german immigrants, immigrated there... Lots of beautiful beaches specially in Santa Catarina... the South really resembles Europe. They even call themselfs the Brazilian europe
Despite having lots of regions, one thing its true we loooooove football
Oh yeah, we have lots of other languange stuff into our languange
like the way we say goodbye comes from the italian Ciao (tchau in portuguese)
and we want to say "You like manga, dontcha? " translates to "Você gosta de manga, né?"
this né (which is dontcha?) is the same ne as in japanese in the end of phrase like anta wa manga o suki ne?
Fun stuff ne?
15 years ago
Posts: 2707
a friend of mine noted that there are also many festivals in the region i live. many in the town or in the villlages right next to it. i don´t know if it´s common everywhere in germany, but for the region i live in it is
15 years ago
Posts: 636
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Quote from Terpsichore
Quote from WandereroftheDeep
Vancouver sounds like nice place, but I'd prefer a place where there aren't any dangerous animals.
In Vancouver 😕
There aren't any polar bears or moose or grizzlys roaming around the streets in Vancouver.
We do have bears up here in the Rocky Mountains, though.
I'm a typical Canadian who drinks double-doubles and blueberry tea, watches hockey, apologizes for everything and abuses the words "please and thank you".
Multiculturalism is a very normal thing for me: everyone I know has a different racial background (even relatives). Because of that we all have very different traditions and lifestyles, but all are still legitimately Canadian.
-Guilty of apologizing more than once for bumping into someone.-
Some time ago I saw a documetary on National Geographic from the series Hunter Hunted which focused on cougar attacks in/near Vancouver; so, the dangerous animals I'm referring to would be cougars.
The vast majority of people living in Vancouver have never even seen a wild cougar. Death by bee stings is more common than death by cougar attack 🤣
"It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
15 years ago
Posts: 3888
Well...I eat rice every day...cause I'm Asian...
I say y'all...because I was born in the Southern United States...but that's pretty much all I can think of that I get from being here. 🤣 I can speak in a southern accent! (Well, I try.)
♪MONSTARR~ will eat all your cookies and steal your bishies~♪ Φ_Φ
15 years ago
Posts: 84
Canadian here.
I live smack dab in Toronto.
--Hugely multicultural. To the point where people don't even notice anymore.
--Polite.Yep here even the teenagers are polite.But that isn't to say we're nice, no most people here won't hesitate to cuss you out (or the like) if you piss them off. For example, I saw a girl on the subway having a massive arguement with a stranger ,and in the next breath was offering her seat to a preganant woman.
--Minding their own business. People will not talk to you unless you say something first , and then even most people will keep their responses short.
--Tim Hortons.They are everywhere and people are addicted the line ups are out the door in the morning.
--Barbeque's in the summer, whether they're cooking hamburgers or tandoori.
--Backyard ice rinks in the winter.
--Making good hearted fun of our sport teams and buying out games.
--Hot dog carts on every streetcorner, on the office part of downtown at least.
--Events pretty much every weekend.
15 years ago
Posts: 17
i live in russia. i am some kind of alien here, but i think i can call myself russian.
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talking about tv movies - we have one too. one that you could and should see every fucking new year day. it's "The Irony of Fate". i began to avoid this film when i was 5 or 6 years old, i think. before that we just had no TV. but you know what? in spite of this i can tell you the plot and even some quotes.
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food... nothing special. russians prefer ready-to-cook food. like "pelmeni". once i found something strange in one of my pelmen it looked like tooth or something like this. bone may be. after that i decided to avoid pelmeni. shchi, borscht - it's not easy to cook, so i never cooked it. and most of (young) russians now never cooked it too. you can say this skill is now slowly disappearing.
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unlike canadians here russians can tell you much more then you asked for. you can ask for direction like "how can i get on Lenina street". and after 10 minutes you know everything about past of this person and plans for the future.
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something that i call "sausage mindset". it's the ghost of the past, i think, from the time when in soviet russia people had to stay in lines. so now when you trying to cut the line or just forget where you just stood, people gone crazy. in their minds everything was on it's right places, "she is before me, he is after me, and right behind him - this cute redhead girl". so the line really reminds the bunch of sausages. and you should know your place, because you're a sausage too.
bonus. something funny. i think i can say that russians can be divided into two categories: ones that "proud to be russians" and ones that "don't feel like russians". and those who "proud to be russians" (well, most of them) cannot even write (or say in some cases) two words (or one word in some cases) in Russian without mistakes. but second ones write and speak Russian without mistakes (again, most of them). even the punctuation, which is really crazy in Russian (read Nabokov if you want an example of crazy russian punctuation). this is just my observation. may be i am wrong after all 🙂
Member15 years ago
Posts: 146
from the caribbeans, i am dominican and we are very loud, i think we agree on that xD
and we love plantains , i think that's like our national icon xD seriously, , and we love rice, beans, and chicken! ^_^~ that's what we eat pretty much every day..yeah : )
and for some reason, the guys curse every 5 seconds in spanish. yep. and very loudly. 😛
