Yeah a lot of those things are conflated with culture when really its “our country only modernised recently, so some traditional family values are stronger” rather then anything else.
it’s also contingent on war. I’ve seen this exact same greentext before, only reworded slightly, so i’ll reiterate from my last post:
my grandparents are greek. they lived through the nazi occupation and a civil war. their parents lived through WWI, the greco-turkish war, and the balkan wars.
family meals were pretty fuckin important to the culture because it meant 1. you had food and 2. everyone was safe / alive to eat it.
it's social norm that's been widely adopted by people of a specific country.
if i said "they like a specific type of music, dressing a certain way, love a certain sport, etc." we'd consider that culture, so i don't see why a shared attitude / value placed on preparing and eating family meals wouldn't be.
In our culture, family is not important! My parents kicked me out at 18, I barely know my siblings.
We don’t like food or eating together. We eat processed ready-made meals every day, alone in our room. We don’t care for the elders….
Those aren’t modernising values. That’s hyperindividualism eroding society at large.
This is a word used by a fairly specific political group.
One that wants desperately to control other people, so they insult the people rejecting their control by calling them "hyperindividualistic" - implying that they're selfish for rejecting the speaker's desire to dominate and control.
Its use is an enormous red flag and enough to get you dismissed in basically any polite, sophisticated company.
Everyone I know that left home at 18 (except college) had a bad home life. People who had a good home life tended to stick around home until they had a solid base. I assume your brother left because he was done with your families shit?
German. My comment was just a parody of the opposite of these cliched statements. Not anything pertaining to my family. I mean in Germany for the most part, people leave home in their 20s, but some usually return to their parents once they have kids on their own. Multigenerational homes aren't as common as in the Mediterranean.
I feel like in the US it is mostly ethnic minorities, who make it part of their identity, often more than the people in their home countries. It is just a way to define themselves in contrast to the majority population.
What never gets talked about is how awful "traditional family values" are.
Everybody instinctively loves their families. That's not unique to any particular culture in any way.
Ehat some cultures do have, though, is a tendency to ostracize or even inflict violence on people who disobey the patriarch or try to make their own way in life.
Honor killings. Beatings. Being kicked out because you're gay, or no longer believe in their faith, or just want to date somebody with the wrong hair color.
"Traditional family values" is just a polite alternative phrase for "fucked up, dirty and bigoted peasants."
Every conversation with an argentinian quickly devolves into nostalgy of his homeland and at that point they inevitably start comparing everything to Argentina. How their nature is so much more pristine, their cities the most gorgeous, their women the most beautiful, their men the most manly, the food in their host countries can never compete etc etc etc...
Any kiwi living in australia is like this. Oh every food is better in new Zealand and how much better it is too live there. But when asked why they live in australia its because we have much better working conditions
I find it slightly regarded when someone uses their foreign word to talk about their grandparents and no one else. Once someone on Reddit justified it by saying it's about respect, but what's respectful about not translating that specific word, especially while talking about it with strangers who don't give a fuck about your grandparents?
And why respect your grandparents like that but not your parents, or uncles and aunts, or your siblings? Your cousins? Your in-laws?
It's so out of place, especially when talking in English for the whole discourse.
Ja tu ich, [o:]ma vs [ɔ]ma, also zumindest gibt es beides im Norden gibt es beides un omma ist für mich das normalere. Ja ou, aw, oh und so zu schreiben ist verwirrend, aber so machen das die Anglos irgendwie wenn sie ihre Aussprache vergleichen.
Wobei Omma nochmal anders klingt als deren Ouma. Na ja. Was ich mal in nem deutschen Film ganz lustig fand, war, als die deutsche Mutter der Protagonistin (mit einem Türken verheiratet) dem türkischen Freund der Tochter gesagt hat "du kannst mich Anne nennen" und ich für nen Moment nicht wusste, ob sie den Vornamen oder das türkische Wort für Mutter meinte.
Stimmt, weil Englisch richtiges /o/ hat, das ist ein Dipthong, aber ich war mir nich sicher ob vielleicht das aw gemeint war.
dem türkischen Freund der Tochter gesagt hat "du kannst mich Anne nennen" und ich für nen Moment nicht wusste
Jup. In dem Fall auch kleiner Unterschied. anne wird anné auf der zweiten Silbe betont. Der Name Anne endet auf [ə] und ist unbetont. Ich bin mir nicht ganz sicher ob es auch normal ist die Schwiegermutter so oder so anne zu nennen, gibt ja noch kayınana und hanımanne als Wörter. Es ist ja auch normal Frauen (auch Fremde) im entsprechenden Alter teyze "Tante" zu nennen.
Heh....he basically called out every "secondary" culture in the book.
You have your primary cultures who exist unequivocally because they were performant enough to spread (US/west-EU, East-Asia, etc)
You have tertiary cultures, who are unknown beyond their neighbors, either because too poor or uninterested in spreading (I dunno.... Latvia, Khazakhstan, Togo. Pick a place that never gets talked about)
And then you have secondary cultures: Proud enough to pretend to be important, but far too lame and lazy to actually amount to anything ("Ayayayya in my kultur we call this debradj! ahahahahah it's not for little girls hey???!!!!"....dude is literally showing me a bottle of 40-proof liquor made from strawberries...). A lot of eastern europe, south america, the middle east, in there.
A lot of local gangsters are usually long time in business and have amassed enough wealth that they usually are not concerned with violent crime and instead turn to corruption and bribery in the higher echelons of the economy.
i heard my cousin tell me a story about how the local bank has a live wire going through to the metal door so when they tried breaking in at night they just got electrocuted
The bit about the staple food being invented in new york city but is complete bollocks though, I assume they mean pizza and I don't want to insult anyone but new york pizza is absolute shit compared to the original italian pizza especially stonebaked.
Also pizza existed well before america was colonised, they just used things other than tomatoes.
If you remove the weird part about New York "inventing the food in the 80s" then this greentext perfectly summarizes all the countries south of the US an all of Eastern Europe.
I don't get the New York part either, I thought the greentext is otherwise how literally every culture describes them:
Dude we love food, love our grandmas (like who doesn't), we party harder than anyone else and if you piss us off we do violence harder than anyone else hehe just look at our criminals compared to yours even they are harder and cooler and fuck better with bigger dicks.
It is a jab against Italians. A lot of typical Italian foods are post WW2 inventions and most are 1860s inventions. Pizza obviously wasn’t invented in New York, but some vocal people on the net like to hate on Italo-American food.
The invention of foods from immigrants in the US is pretty cool
It basically boiled down to these poor ppl who wanted to make usual foods but didn't have the same ingredients as back home so they improvised and experiment with what they had access too
This is why it's pretty common for immigrant cultures to have a wider variety of foods compared to their home country counterparts(ie italian descendants in the americas being way more open to different toppings compared to italians)
this reminds me of the people in small towns in the south that think THEIR town invented the "reverse truck lift" (where they only jack up the frontend).....i have unfortunately had to chat with WAY too many of these people across the SE US in my life
I’m from the southern US, and have friends from the PNW, and the east coast, with family on the west coast. I’m Hispanic if that matters. Literally everyone I know does this, but on twitter and online spaces I’ve seen multiple posts about how “only black/mexican/insert non us ethnicity” uses plastic bags as trash bags.
I don't get how something so mundane could be a tradition, it's like saying "putting the empty toilet paper cardboard roll in a basket till you throw them in the paper trash is our tradition"
It's representative of a generation who lived poor during communism and hoarded everything, it's just a shorthand for that mentality. Like my grandma religiously washed and hoarded her plastic bags. My mom has an entire big drawer full of plastic bags.
Every Iranian I've ever met is like this, it's annoying af. I've heard them say they invented drinking tea in the morning, that they are the only culture that enjoys eating the crispy rice at the bottom of the pot, how every popular saying is "Persian" (I heard an Iranian woman literally say "this might sound strange to you, but in my country we say that it's better to strike the iron while it's hot, heeeheee!"), all the grandma stuff with the plastic bags and the abuse (and they invented slippers too and Iranian grandmas discovered using a slipper to hit their children), and so many more normal and universal shit that it's unbelievable. I watch a lot of cooking videos on YouTube and every single time there's an Iranian in the comments asking why they didn't cook the depicted food in the Iranian way which is better and more authentic. They've really been brainwashed into thinking their culture is unique.
Lmao I’ve met so many people (not Iranian, my Iranian friends haven’t said this) who talk like this though.
I joke to my wife a lot “in my culture we HATE food. We HATE family. Our grandparents are NORMAL.”
this is just diaspora clinging to their fading identities, it's a form of cope. means they don't have as much of a connection to their original culture as they would like and so they do or say stuff like this.
ok I'm projecting what i'm sometimes like but still, if you go to someone who's born and raised there or has a stronger more secure connection to their homeland, you don't get this quirky annoying stuff.
Americans claiming they are Italian because their great grandparents were, is the first thing that I thought of with this post. Their obsession with claiming their pizza is the best is mind blowing.
The fact that evenetually "US pizza" became something that is really a bit different from what we call "Pizza" in Italy is another thing. It is truly a bit different, by virtue of interpreting the dish differently. American pizza is more like a pie with a mix of cheese and stuff on it, it's not about the pizza itself. It acts more like bread does in a sandwich, you enjoy it if it's better than shitty bread but the point is the filling.
Comparing that stuff to italian pizza is like saying that me cooking some rice while throwing peas and eggs in it makes cantonese rice
There’s a bunch of pretty distinct types of pizza in the U.S., most created by Italians who immigrated to the U.S. or their descendants. The regional differences create some interstate rivalries on the topic of which style is the best.
Both New York style pizza and New Haven style “apizza” are pretty directly derived from Neapolitan pizza as the first pizzerias that created both styles of pizzas were founded by Italian immigrants from around Naples.
Regional styles also exist in Canada. In the small northern town of Thompson they add a little lemon lime soda to the dough, and it's actually popular enough that a restaurant opened in Winnipeg doing Thompson style pizza.
So I wouldn’t bring it up out of nowhere, but if the discussion was pizza, I’d advocate strongly for ny style. Not even from there just recognize greatness
Romania's been number 1 for the past few years by 1-2 and up to 3 liters at times. Another glorious victory for glorious Romania. 🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
The misleading partbof these statistics is that some countries are used to accompany every meal with an alcoholic drink and in others it's just customary to get shitfaced every weekend. The total amount of alcohol consumed ends up being the same but it's a completely different type of drinking.
If you show me a source that ranks global regions (yes regions, like Transvaal, Guangzhou and Angostura) with Wisconsin in the top 10, I'll believe you. Otherwise you're cleanly out of the race Yankee.
List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita - Wikipedia https://share.google/pafbc2PWM5CVi3LCj
That seems like a strange requirement considering your original comment, but admittedly I can't find a list for worldwide regions as such. That said, comparing online data to the table on Wikipedia, it looks like the highest alcohol consumption per capita in the US when controlling for economic and touristic factors actually belongs to North Dakota, which comes in just behind Uganda in for the projected data for 2025. ND sits between 10th and 11th on that list, and notably Ireland comes in 14th place.
I was definitely wrong about Germany, which is projected to be in 8th place when the data is fully analyzed.
If we are talking about immigrants, yeah they really tied together and have strong family/community relations, because that's how you survive in foreign country.
HeavenBaron@reddit
Yeah a lot of those things are conflated with culture when really its “our country only modernised recently, so some traditional family values are stronger” rather then anything else.
theirishembassy@reddit
it’s also contingent on war. I’ve seen this exact same greentext before, only reworded slightly, so i’ll reiterate from my last post:
my grandparents are greek. they lived through the nazi occupation and a civil war. their parents lived through WWI, the greco-turkish war, and the balkan wars.
family meals were pretty fuckin important to the culture because it meant 1. you had food and 2. everyone was safe / alive to eat it.
Substantial_Bet_1007@reddit
Damn im turkish and it mostly same especially last one
IgnoreMePlz123@reddit
Thats not really culture though is it?
NCD_Lardum_AS@reddit
No but it will absolutely greatly influence ones culture.
Why do you think British cuisine is so shit? It's because of generational trauma from WW2. No I'm being completely serious.
There's a stark contrast between the eating habits of pre and post WW2 Britain.
theirishembassy@reddit
it's social norm that's been widely adopted by people of a specific country.
if i said "they like a specific type of music, dressing a certain way, love a certain sport, etc." we'd consider that culture, so i don't see why a shared attitude / value placed on preparing and eating family meals wouldn't be.
GetTheRoach@reddit
Why wouldn't it be?
textposts_only@reddit
As opposed to Germans who also had 2 world wars and were the losers and thus also had food insecurity... It's not the wars mate
Loudpip@reddit
Its a greentext calm down babe
FloZone@reddit
In our culture, family is not important! My parents kicked me out at 18, I barely know my siblings. We don’t like food or eating together. We eat processed ready-made meals every day, alone in our room. We don’t care for the elders….
Those aren’t modernising values. That’s hyperindividualism eroding society at large.
The_Law_of_Pizza@reddit
This is a word used by a fairly specific political group.
One that wants desperately to control other people, so they insult the people rejecting their control by calling them "hyperindividualistic" - implying that they're selfish for rejecting the speaker's desire to dominate and control.
Its use is an enormous red flag and enough to get you dismissed in basically any polite, sophisticated company.
SilliusS0ddus@reddit
Go fed somewhere else
Ninjalion2000@reddit
I think you just have a shitty family.
FloZone@reddit
Nah, my brother left voluntarily when he was 18.
Ninjalion2000@reddit
Everyone I know that left home at 18 (except college) had a bad home life. People who had a good home life tended to stick around home until they had a solid base. I assume your brother left because he was done with your families shit?
What culture do you consider yourself?
FloZone@reddit
German. My comment was just a parody of the opposite of these cliched statements. Not anything pertaining to my family. I mean in Germany for the most part, people leave home in their 20s, but some usually return to their parents once they have kids on their own. Multigenerational homes aren't as common as in the Mediterranean.
I feel like in the US it is mostly ethnic minorities, who make it part of their identity, often more than the people in their home countries. It is just a way to define themselves in contrast to the majority population.
0cc1dent@reddit
Goy life
The_Law_of_Pizza@reddit
What never gets talked about is how awful "traditional family values" are.
Everybody instinctively loves their families. That's not unique to any particular culture in any way.
Ehat some cultures do have, though, is a tendency to ostracize or even inflict violence on people who disobey the patriarch or try to make their own way in life.
Honor killings. Beatings. Being kicked out because you're gay, or no longer believe in their faith, or just want to date somebody with the wrong hair color.
"Traditional family values" is just a polite alternative phrase for "fucked up, dirty and bigoted peasants."
INCUMBENTLAWYER@reddit
In my culture, family and food mean nothing to us. We do not value joy or laughter.
maxxim333@reddit
Argentinians fit perfectly in it for me.
Every conversation with an argentinian quickly devolves into nostalgy of his homeland and at that point they inevitably start comparing everything to Argentina. How their nature is so much more pristine, their cities the most gorgeous, their women the most beautiful, their men the most manly, the food in their host countries can never compete etc etc etc...
UnfoundedWings4@reddit
Just ask them how nice the malvinas is
KonamiKing@reddit
“My old country is the best country in the world. My current ‘host’ country US/Canada/UK/Australia is trash!”
“No I will not go and live in my old country”
Wild-Lavishness01@reddit
no immigrant i know or child of an immigrant i know in Australia has said this. Australia is pretty good to live in ignoring cost of living stuff.
UnfoundedWings4@reddit
When i was an apprentice at the training centre one guy was like that was fun to rag on him. And I didnt say immigrants i specified kiwis
Wild-Lavishness01@reddit
I was replying to the other guy?
UnfoundedWings4@reddit
Sorry it showed up on my app as you replying to me
UnfoundedWings4@reddit
Any kiwi living in australia is like this. Oh every food is better in new Zealand and how much better it is too live there. But when asked why they live in australia its because we have much better working conditions
Jack-of-Hearts-7@reddit
"In our culture, food is important" no shit that's every culture dipshit.
SheenaAquaticBird@reddit
Tell this to the English
Jack-of-Hearts-7@reddit
Still applies
Meewelyne@reddit
I find it slightly regarded when someone uses their foreign word to talk about their grandparents and no one else. Once someone on Reddit justified it by saying it's about respect, but what's respectful about not translating that specific word, especially while talking about it with strangers who don't give a fuck about your grandparents?
And why respect your grandparents like that but not your parents, or uncles and aunts, or your siblings? Your cousins? Your in-laws?
It's so out of place, especially when talking in English for the whole discourse.
NotAnAlien5@reddit
And then they frequently mispronounce it anyways. Like nonna or Oma where they make the o in nonna too long and pick the american o for Oma.
FloZone@reddit
I assume you mean the ou vowel. Oma has at least two pronunciations in German. aw-ma and oh-ma, the latter with long o and the former with short o.
NotAnAlien5@reddit
Ich mein dieses Kaugummi Ou, ja. Ouma. This is my Ouma. This is my nouna.
Meinst du mit Aw-ma, Oma ausgesprochen wie Omma?
FloZone@reddit
Ja tu ich, [o:]ma vs [ɔ]ma, also zumindest gibt es beides im Norden gibt es beides un omma ist für mich das normalere. Ja ou, aw, oh und so zu schreiben ist verwirrend, aber so machen das die Anglos irgendwie wenn sie ihre Aussprache vergleichen.
NotAnAlien5@reddit
Wobei Omma nochmal anders klingt als deren Ouma. Na ja. Was ich mal in nem deutschen Film ganz lustig fand, war, als die deutsche Mutter der Protagonistin (mit einem Türken verheiratet) dem türkischen Freund der Tochter gesagt hat "du kannst mich Anne nennen" und ich für nen Moment nicht wusste, ob sie den Vornamen oder das türkische Wort für Mutter meinte.
FloZone@reddit
Stimmt, weil Englisch richtiges /o/ hat, das ist ein Dipthong, aber ich war mir nich sicher ob vielleicht das aw gemeint war.
Jup. In dem Fall auch kleiner Unterschied. anne wird anné auf der zweiten Silbe betont. Der Name Anne endet auf [ə] und ist unbetont. Ich bin mir nicht ganz sicher ob es auch normal ist die Schwiegermutter so oder so anne zu nennen, gibt ja noch kayınana und hanımanne als Wörter. Es ist ja auch normal Frauen (auch Fremde) im entsprechenden Alter teyze "Tante" zu nennen.
NotAnAlien5@reddit
Ist nicht unüblich. Hat meine türkische Schwiegermutter mir auch angeboten.
Meewelyne@reddit
Thankfully I never had the displeasure to talk with someone this way irl. Yet.
The_salty_swab@reddit
Some people have imaginary friends. Others have imaginary people to get mad at
Clyde-MacTavish@reddit
Name a minority
Thrasympmachus@reddit
Whites
Clyde-MacTavish@reddit
What kinda there be many
Thrasympmachus@reddit
Blacks
Boricinha@reddit
Left handed people
Clyde-MacTavish@reddit
Technically that means any culture that has a left-handed person.
NotSovietSpy@reddit
They are everywhere. They are weeks away from taking over the world and destroy our way of ergonomics.
Clyde-MacTavish@reddit
Damn inkdraggers
AtomicMonkeyTheFirst@reddit
White people.
Clyde-MacTavish@reddit
Ironically still fits all of these
pliko5@reddit
Hillary Clinton
IShatMyDickOnce@reddit
Hillary Duff too. There’s not many Hillarys. Definitely a minority.
Clyde-MacTavish@reddit
She'll never be found without hot sauce in her purse
HamBlamBlam@reddit
Well groomed 4channers
SonTyp_OhneNamen@reddit
„Minority“, not „theoretical concept“
Amathril@reddit
Minority Report
(2002 sci-fi movie with Tom Cruise)
Trigger_Fox@reddit
Name 10 minorities
Its_aTrap@reddit
Uhhhh Obamas wife
all_time_high@reddit
Duergar
Working-Tomato8395@reddit
Non-alcoholics who live in Wisconsin, also non-alcoholic businessmen over the age of 50 in China
Clyde-MacTavish@reddit
fits all of em
WoolooOfWallStreet@reddit
Imaginary
Only-Safe659@reddit
Gamers
The_salty_swab@reddit
Big booty twinks who actually commit to a time and place 🙄. Flightiest fucks on the planet.
Sauelsuesor729@reddit
Redditors will call you a schizo but never wrong
ForumsDwelling@reddit
How Schizo-anons Lose Their Virginity
"Hehe meet my new girlfriend! I lost my virginity to her!"
"Uhh... where is she?"
"Right here bro, right next to me!"
"Dude you are being schizo right now!"
"Hehe! You called me schizo, but not wrong! Later virgins!"
Sauelsuesor729@reddit
Almost 70K karma in 2 years, funny how you can always tell
ForumsDwelling@reddit
Amathril@reddit
Man, I would never call a schizo wrong in their face.
Gackt@reddit
Go back
arbiter12@reddit
Heh....he basically called out every "secondary" culture in the book.
You have your primary cultures who exist unequivocally because they were performant enough to spread (US/west-EU, East-Asia, etc)
You have tertiary cultures, who are unknown beyond their neighbors, either because too poor or uninterested in spreading (I dunno.... Latvia, Khazakhstan, Togo. Pick a place that never gets talked about)
And then you have secondary cultures: Proud enough to pretend to be important, but far too lame and lazy to actually amount to anything ("Ayayayya in my kultur we call this debradj! ahahahahah it's not for little girls hey???!!!!"....dude is literally showing me a bottle of 40-proof liquor made from strawberries...). A lot of eastern europe, south america, the middle east, in there.
MikeHoteI@reddit
Ehh our locally sourced Gangsters are pretty tame and business minded.
FloZone@reddit
A lot of local gangsters are usually long time in business and have amassed enough wealth that they usually are not concerned with violent crime and instead turn to corruption and bribery in the higher echelons of the economy.
Wild-Lavishness01@reddit
i heard my cousin tell me a story about how the local bank has a live wire going through to the metal door so when they tried breaking in at night they just got electrocuted
cragon_dum@reddit
mfw overgeneralization of a concept comes out omniapplicable:
Yellowdog727@reddit
"Our women are beautiful"
moron555@reddit
This is the weirdest one, why are you advertising your women to other people...
Separate_Dealer9539@reddit
because if you see women as a commodity you're going to flex that. it's like saying you have cheap gas or better eggs
poopcockshit@reddit
Cuck tendencies
Wild-Lavishness01@reddit
because yours are ugly like your mom /s
Separate_Dealer9539@reddit
argentina
DarkSkyKnight@reddit
The real people who haven’t left their basement are the ones who think this is completely made up.
Is it a little exaggerated? Yeah, especially the crime part. But the core bit is still true.
Distantstallion@reddit
The bit about the staple food being invented in new york city but is complete bollocks though, I assume they mean pizza and I don't want to insult anyone but new york pizza is absolute shit compared to the original italian pizza especially stonebaked.
Also pizza existed well before america was colonised, they just used things other than tomatoes.
Din_Plug@reddit
If you remove the weird part about New York "inventing the food in the 80s" then this greentext perfectly summarizes all the countries south of the US an all of Eastern Europe.
Marble05@reddit
My thoughts exactly. That is the mark of an American that never left the country but the rest is not that far off.
flippy123x@reddit
I don't get the New York part either, I thought the greentext is otherwise how literally every culture describes them:
Dude we love food, love our grandmas (like who doesn't), we party harder than anyone else and if you piss us off we do violence harder than anyone else hehe just look at our criminals compared to yours even they are harder and cooler and fuck better with bigger dicks.
FloZone@reddit
It is a jab against Italians. A lot of typical Italian foods are post WW2 inventions and most are 1860s inventions. Pizza obviously wasn’t invented in New York, but some vocal people on the net like to hate on Italo-American food.
Kallonistic@reddit
Italian Americans get hate from Europe and the Americas
FloZone@reddit
Some of it is even so non-sensical. Like some lived in the US before Italy was even a country. Of course they are different.
DepartureNatural9340@reddit
The invention of foods from immigrants in the US is pretty cool
It basically boiled down to these poor ppl who wanted to make usual foods but didn't have the same ingredients as back home so they improvised and experiment with what they had access too
This is why it's pretty common for immigrant cultures to have a wider variety of foods compared to their home country counterparts(ie italian descendants in the americas being way more open to different toppings compared to italians)
An_Draoidh_Uaine@reddit
It describes Ireland perfectly.
jzemeocala@reddit
this reminds me of the people in small towns in the south that think THEIR town invented the "reverse truck lift" (where they only jack up the frontend).....i have unfortunately had to chat with WAY too many of these people across the SE US in my life
SoupaMayo@reddit
What's up with the plastic bag part
SpottedWobbegong@reddit
It's sort of a tradition in eastern europe, maybe that's what they were aiming at. Don't know about other places
Venomswindturd@reddit
I’m from the southern US, and have friends from the PNW, and the east coast, with family on the west coast. I’m Hispanic if that matters. Literally everyone I know does this, but on twitter and online spaces I’ve seen multiple posts about how “only black/mexican/insert non us ethnicity” uses plastic bags as trash bags.
SoupaMayo@reddit
I don't get how something so mundane could be a tradition, it's like saying "putting the empty toilet paper cardboard roll in a basket till you throw them in the paper trash is our tradition"
SpottedWobbegong@reddit
It's representative of a generation who lived poor during communism and hoarded everything, it's just a shorthand for that mentality. Like my grandma religiously washed and hoarded her plastic bags. My mom has an entire big drawer full of plastic bags.
m1r4nd4k@reddit
Every Iranian I've ever met is like this, it's annoying af. I've heard them say they invented drinking tea in the morning, that they are the only culture that enjoys eating the crispy rice at the bottom of the pot, how every popular saying is "Persian" (I heard an Iranian woman literally say "this might sound strange to you, but in my country we say that it's better to strike the iron while it's hot, heeeheee!"), all the grandma stuff with the plastic bags and the abuse (and they invented slippers too and Iranian grandmas discovered using a slipper to hit their children), and so many more normal and universal shit that it's unbelievable. I watch a lot of cooking videos on YouTube and every single time there's an Iranian in the comments asking why they didn't cook the depicted food in the Iranian way which is better and more authentic. They've really been brainwashed into thinking their culture is unique.
Venomswindturd@reddit
Lmao I’ve met so many people (not Iranian, my Iranian friends haven’t said this) who talk like this though. I joke to my wife a lot “in my culture we HATE food. We HATE family. Our grandparents are NORMAL.”
SongsAboutFracking@reddit
Iranians are just Italians with STEM degrees.
m1r4nd4k@reddit
And Iranians also rape a lot less, I'll give them that.
skaersSabody@reddit
How fucking dare you (I am Italian and I have no problem accepting this as universal truth)
Wild-Lavishness01@reddit
this is just diaspora clinging to their fading identities, it's a form of cope. means they don't have as much of a connection to their original culture as they would like and so they do or say stuff like this.
ok I'm projecting what i'm sometimes like but still, if you go to someone who's born and raised there or has a stronger more secure connection to their homeland, you don't get this quirky annoying stuff.
Vinyl-addict@reddit
China obviously invented drinking tea in the morning, and every other time of day.
Capable-Jacket4693@reddit
Champagne greentext here. No notes. 🤌🏼
paddycr@reddit
Wtf is it with yanks and pizza? Why so territorial over some mid junk food? Do they think it is the crowning achievement of the US or something?
aithusah@reddit
Americans claiming they are Italian because their great grandparents were, is the first thing that I thought of with this post. Their obsession with claiming their pizza is the best is mind blowing.
GoodOlFashionCoke@reddit
Most of the famous pizzerias in the U.S. were directly founded by Italian immigrants
Hyperversum@reddit
Yeah no fucking shit, it's an italian dish lmao.
The fact that evenetually "US pizza" became something that is really a bit different from what we call "Pizza" in Italy is another thing. It is truly a bit different, by virtue of interpreting the dish differently. American pizza is more like a pie with a mix of cheese and stuff on it, it's not about the pizza itself. It acts more like bread does in a sandwich, you enjoy it if it's better than shitty bread but the point is the filling.
Comparing that stuff to italian pizza is like saying that me cooking some rice while throwing peas and eggs in it makes cantonese rice
GoodOlFashionCoke@reddit
There’s a bunch of pretty distinct types of pizza in the U.S., most created by Italians who immigrated to the U.S. or their descendants. The regional differences create some interstate rivalries on the topic of which style is the best.
Both New York style pizza and New Haven style “apizza” are pretty directly derived from Neapolitan pizza as the first pizzerias that created both styles of pizzas were founded by Italian immigrants from around Naples.
Powwer_Orb13@reddit
Regional styles also exist in Canada. In the small northern town of Thompson they add a little lemon lime soda to the dough, and it's actually popular enough that a restaurant opened in Winnipeg doing Thompson style pizza.
BingBongFyourWife@reddit
Of all the pizzas ny style is the best
So I wouldn’t bring it up out of nowhere, but if the discussion was pizza, I’d advocate strongly for ny style. Not even from there just recognize greatness
DerSchweinebrecher@reddit
Tell me you're American without telling me you're American. Bet Anon thinks this accounts for Pizza too.
SS370N@reddit
Wdym you don't like the Jumbo dumbo oreos milkshake with 7 types of syrup?
Sauelsuesor729@reddit
Basically all of Latin America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Middle East and Eastern Europe.
SS370N@reddit
Agree, except the New York bullshit.
AusCro@reddit
I think you're allowed to say the alcohol thing if your country is in the top 10 drinker's list. So some Slavs,Germans and Irish yes. Everyone else no
NotNonbisco@reddit
Germans barely clearing the top 10 via Austria
Romania's been number 1 for the past few years by 1-2 and up to 3 liters at times. Another glorious victory for glorious Romania. 🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
maxxim333@reddit
The misleading partbof these statistics is that some countries are used to accompany every meal with an alcoholic drink and in others it's just customary to get shitfaced every weekend. The total amount of alcohol consumed ends up being the same but it's a completely different type of drinking.
NotNonbisco@reddit
Seeing as how it's a full liter and half above the nearest competitor, and from my own personal experience I can assure you we do both
FloZone@reddit
And some are just latent alcoholics that need a bottle of vodka to function.
TyRocken@reddit
And Wisconsin
AusCro@reddit
No
marmaladewarrior@reddit
Honestly I think Wisconsin has earned a higher placement than Germany.
Source: not from Wisconsin and German beers are almost universally sessionable
AusCro@reddit
If you show me a source that ranks global regions (yes regions, like Transvaal, Guangzhou and Angostura) with Wisconsin in the top 10, I'll believe you. Otherwise you're cleanly out of the race Yankee.
List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita - Wikipedia https://share.google/pafbc2PWM5CVi3LCj
marmaladewarrior@reddit
That seems like a strange requirement considering your original comment, but admittedly I can't find a list for worldwide regions as such. That said, comparing online data to the table on Wikipedia, it looks like the highest alcohol consumption per capita in the US when controlling for economic and touristic factors actually belongs to North Dakota, which comes in just behind Uganda in for the projected data for 2025. ND sits between 10th and 11th on that list, and notably Ireland comes in 14th place.
I was definitely wrong about Germany, which is projected to be in 8th place when the data is fully analyzed.
AusCro@reddit
I know, I've hot such strange requirements like gasp treating regions as regions, and countries like countries
biscuitboyisaac21@reddit
Except that list probably doesn’t even exist lol. Regardless of Wisconsin being on it or not
Baltic_Gunner@reddit
Everything is both better and worse back home, you wouldn't get it.
apscep@reddit
If we are talking about immigrants, yeah they really tied together and have strong family/community relations, because that's how you survive in foreign country.
Vinyl-addict@reddit
OOP clearly doesn’t actually know any Hispanics
ZZTMF@reddit
The irony of the New York mention. Those fuckers act like they didn't just diabetify the Italian pie.
Mishi_Mujago@reddit
Everyone wants to be from the place where they swear the most and have the most sarcasm.
MeBustYourKneecaps@reddit
"Food that was invented in New York City in 1980"
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Someone else think of a clever way to call OP an idiot, I'm too tired
CasulWrecker@reddit
You don't need to, it will slide of his smooth brain. Besides, he's in the corner huffing glue laughing at his own jokes.
MeBustYourKneecaps@reddit
"Food that was invented in New York City in 1980"
Ugh....
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Padithus@reddit
This was written by someone who has never left Azeroth.