What are some interesting things from your culture...

chocolate porridge and dried fish for breakfast

historically if you committed a serious enough of a crime

nine families connections of your would be punished as well...

Nine familial exterminations - Wikipedia

Samba, I guess.

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heyy didn't you tell me about this once??

probably but i can't remember if it was you though lol

but it certainly is very interesting

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'twas. i enjoyed reading it btw, thanks.

now the more interesting question is did you agree with that practice - not nine familial connections but the concept of collective punishment?

Not sure if anybody else do this, but we take shoes off once we enter house. Even at some school we take them off before you walk into classroom.

dia de los muertos ( day of the dead )

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same here. I wonder why? maybe because it’s dirty? i’ve gotten used to no shoes in the house. it feels weird

Not only that, but using shoes whole school/workday make them stink.

I'm from Scotland and here, it's socially acceptable for men to wear this plaid skirt called a kilt. It's part of tradition.

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Meanwhile in other places, you're apparently gay and "not manly" if you are a man and wear a skirt.

We also play this super annoying intrument called a bagpipe which I reccomend not to listen to if you are trying to preserve the health of your ears. They're really loud.

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I'm from Scotland and here, it's socially acceptable for men to wear this plaid skirt called a kilt. It's part of tradition.

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Meanwhile in other places, you're apparently gay and "not manly" if you are a man and wear a skirt.

We also play this super annoying intrument called a bagpipe which I reccomend not to listen to if you are trying to preserve the health of your ears. They're really loud.

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you're scottish?

I would have never guessed in a million years you were scottish

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you're scottish?

I would have never guessed in a million years you were scottish

oh really?

well.... i never really made it obvious so

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oh really?

well.... i never really made it obvious so

I would guessed the default US...but nice...there's an Irishwoman here but I don't think i know of any other Scottish people on the AKP forums

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I would guessed the default US...but nice...there's an Irishwoman here but I don't think i know of any other Scottish people on the AKP forums

a lot of the slang i use comes from the US so i can understand

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a lot of the slang i use comes from the US so i can understand

I don't know much about Scotland other than your typical stereotype things like kilts and bagpipes and highlander dance...

Tell me something about your culture?

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I don't know much about Scotland other than your typical stereotype things like kilts and bagpipes and highlander dance...

Tell me something about your culture?

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I said stereotypes I know not all Scottish people dance around highlander style in kilts to bagpipe music

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If you ever heard of the Lochness Monster, the whole story behind it comes from here and it was allegedly spotted in a lake here.

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If you ever heard of the Lochness Monster, the whole story behind it comes from here and it was allegedly spotted in a lake here.

yeah but that's a myth a legend a story to scare little children

(you do realise I'm 36 right? lol)

like actual culture - big or little things that are not newsworthy or stereotypes...

okay i want to share something because I am passionate for my culture.

1. Here is the cultural attire called "habesha kemise"

for a girl with different kinds of designs

for a guy its plain and simple.

2. in one of our dishes called Kitfo we eat raw beef that is cooked for like 5 mins with Ethiopian butter and a bunch of species but it is a special kind of beef that is super fresh and clean so we wont get sick eating it. A lot of people think this is disgusting but it is comparable to sushi. *the meat is bought from a specific market so if someone were to make this with meat from like walmart they will get very sick.

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3. We eat some of our foods with chopsticks even though we are Black and not Asian. pasted-from-clipboard.jpg pasted-from-clipboard.jpg

4. Our cultural hairstyle which hurts ALOT (those are very tiny and tight braids which feels like you are getting your scalp ripped out but beauty hurts yk )

5. We go by the ancient Coptic calendar which is 7 years behind the normally used calendar so in Eastern Africa right now it is 2013 and our New Years is on September 11th. SO that would make me born in 1995 in Ethiopia but born in 2002 with the commonly used calendar. #90sbaby

6. and the last fact I want to share is our alphabet system which is popular on that copypasta thingy but most people don't know that it is actually a real alphabet that millions of people in Ethiopia and Eritrea use. It is called ge'ez. Look at how pretty it is

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yeah but that's a myth a legend a story to scare little children

(you do realise I'm 36 right? lol)

like actual culture - big or little things that are not newsworthy or stereotypes...

it's still part of our culture nontheless lmao

for starters, scottish people are known to be be friendly and open minded. i guess that counts as a stereotype but whatever.

we speak english here but we also have people like me who can speak the ancient scottish language called scottish gaelic

we actually the most red headed people in scotland.. at about 13%

this is minor but we make comfy sweaters out of our wool as well

you could look up some more if you'd like

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Africa too, men wear a form of skirts. It’s not unmanly. But i feel like it’s different for men to wear an actual dress vs a traditional skirt. I wonder why

Yep only some African countries that are in a hotter and humid climate wear skirts for the traditional clothes. One culture I can think of on the top of my head is Somalia and Somaliland

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it's still part of our culture nontheless lmao

for starters, scottish people are known to be be friendly and open minded. i guess that counts as a stereotype but whatever.

we speak english here but we also have people like me who can speak the ancient scottish language called scottish gaelic

we actually the most red headed people in scotland.. at about 13%

this is minor but we make comfy sweaters out of our wool as well

you could look up some more if you'd like

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the thing is looking stuff up won't let me know if that's just stereotyped by western (US media) or actually what goes on in a country...

like for example wet markets are common in China but they are essentially just normal farmer's markets for the everyday citizen Chinese don't actually eat bats and rats and pandas in their everyday lives lol

i dont know if this counts as culture

we believe in 33 Million Gods here. in practice it's a bit less but still quite a lot and we have specific temples dedicated to many of them

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i dont know if this counts as culture

we believe in 33 Million Gods here. in practice it's a bit less but still quite a lot and we have specific temples dedicated to many of them

ohhhh thats so cool. Which god to you pray to?? Is there one primary one or you pray to all of them??

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ohhhh thats so cool. Which god to you pray to?? Is there one primary one or you pray to all of them??

we have this lore with all the gods. Each one of them blesses you with a specific thing. We have a lot of festivals as well where we pray one particular god on that occasion. Other than that there are various sorts of temples, some common others specific so we pray to all of them

I just googled it, there're 718 local languages in my country. 300 ethnics and 1340 tribes with their own unique cultures and traditional attires.

Even I'm not that fluent in my own local language

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That’s awesome! 33 million?? can you explain a bit more

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we have this lore with all the gods. Each one of them blesses you with a specific thing. We have a lot of festivals as well where we pray one particular god on that occasion. Other than that there are various sorts of temples, some common others specific so we pray to all of them

alongside this, in our lore we have main deities who have many incarnations too. People here pray to pray to incarnations as well as main deities equally.

hmmmm

We have to stand up when an elder enters the room, no matter what you're doing, to show respect

Lol when I was little it meant that everytime that an uncle os someone enters the room I had to stand up

Obv doesnt apply to people you live with (unless its someone like +60years old, then you still have to do it)

Also a lot of dumb marriage traditions who must go. Like the wife cant call her husband by his name publicly or his relatives. Or show any kind attention or care to her child when elders are here. Theres been even cases of children left disbaled or even almost killed because of this

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it's still part of our culture nontheless lmao

for starters, scottish people are known to be be friendly and open minded. i guess that counts as a stereotype but whatever.

we speak english here but we also have people like me who can speak the ancient scottish language called scottish gaelic

we actually the most red headed people in scotland.. at about 13%

this is minor but we make comfy sweaters out of our wool as well

you could look up some more if you'd like

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I’ve been to Scotland and found the accent very broad, couldn’t understand them especially in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Pretty country though especially the Highlands. In fact, my Grandfather was born in Scotland in Dunfermline.

Southern US here, South Carolina.

Our state has THE MOST food traditions. We have three (or possibly four, depending on how you define it) separate regions of barbecue sauce, for example (mustard is the best, fight me, I come from the midlands, but you also have options with ketchup, vinegar, or another species of vinegar within the state). We also have traditions around seafood (Charleston, Georgetown, or Myrtle Beach). We have traditions around greens (collards, but also mustard). This state goes HARD about food.

We also have Gullah culture (brought over from Africa and living through slave cultures) which has its own language, food traditions, and whole culture. We do support Gullah culture in a way that really no other state does, there are whole communities here that continue to speak the language, eat the food, and carry on the tradition. Can this state be super-racist? Yes. But we can also be quietly supportive and can preserve the traditions we have. I'm not necessarily proud, because there are SO MANY FAULTS HERE, but I do want to give a nod to the good things.