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what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa?? like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.

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[โ€“] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Kangaroos littering the side of the road (they have about 4 neurones and all of then are suicidal)

To be fair to them, cutting across the path of a predator is pretty effective right up until the predator is a two-tonne death machine.

Walking down the street at night. In the UK and USA it was apparently just not a thing you did. Here I will walk home at 2am no worries, and tonnes of people walk home from the pub drunk enough to not always make it home and sometimes just pass out on the footpath. Never had a problem, never been mugged or similar in that situation, and after living in the UK and visiting the USA I can definitely say I would never do that there.

Still pretty dangerous for women, I've gotten plenty of harassment at night. But definitely far safer than the US.

People do talk about politics and religion here, but not with random people and not in public. If someone isn't interested you are generally going to back off quickly and leave it be. Religion and politics are mostly private and the few people who do talk tend to not be too intense about it. Certainly most don't become a registered Labor or Liberal party member with the group identity associated. It is much more loosely held and less culturally relevant.

I think it depends. People are still fairly likely to talk about what they think is a "fair go", and we've had some massive political protests lately. But it feels like each party has to meet in the middle a lot more, so stuff isn't as polarising, and things that are don't get talked about as openly.

Also in the US they have to register for a party when they register to vote. Feels like they heard about the concept of the secret ballot from us and then just failed completely on the execution.

[โ€“] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 3 days ago

Most states in the US don't require you to register for a party, although there are some that do.

Also, there are places in the US that are incredibly safe, but most of the big cities are not. But the US is very large and diverse.