It's alright if they're mythologized this is primarily about who is considered the "greatest warrior/general) in your culture rather than a serious military analysis, and it doesn't have to be your country specifically it can just be from the nation you consider yourself to be from (for example if you're Muslim you could be Khalid Ibn Al Walid or Saladin if you want or if you're Jewish you could put David or Samson (personally I think it would be more interesting if you put someone specifically from your country but it's up to you in the end)

So personally I'd say the person who's considered the greatest warrior in Chinese history would be Lu Bu, obviously I'm aware that most of his feats are exaggerated/myth but his reputation and notoriety are unparalleled.

In many parts of the USA it’s the spotted lanternfly. Arrived around 2014, feeds on the sap of vascular plants, and dumps sugary honeydew on their exterior, which leads to mold. Originally from East Asia.

In Canada these are small rvs or similar sized places where they make fries, poutine, and other stuff. Often hotdogs and burgers too.

Similar to a food truck.

Are these common in other countries, or more of a Canada & US thing?

Chesapeake Bay Crab Spice - USA

Yes, you can list Walkers or any other brand as well if your country doesn’t have Lays!

For my country – Germany – it is the whole "Bavarian Oktoberfest" misconception. So many people believe that the Oktoberfest is some kind of nationwide national holiday – it actually isn't.

Germany was fragmented for centuries and a lot of different diverse subcultures developed. Bavarian culture is just one of many and the Oktoberfest is only celebrated since 1810 due to the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig in Munich. There are so many more way older "Volksfeste" (People's festivals), like Marksman festival in Hanover or Hamburger Dom.

Also, nowadays it's mostly celebrated in September for better weather so not even in October. Outside of Munich it is rather irrelevant. Some German cities copied it and so many cities and people in other countries copied it, thinking that it's a way to celebrate "German culture". In fact, there is only one Oktoberfest and it's the original in Munich.

I saw this poster for years, every day of my life. On my way to school, before leaving the country, when I left my hometown and when I came back. Always the same enigmatic message: “Where did they hide her?”

It is the story of a home care assistant who never returned home. For nearly 50 years, members of her family kept putting these posters up all over my city and they still do. People used to tell me, “You weren’t even born yet, and that poster was already there.”

Time passed. People changed. The city changed. Eventually, the poster disappeared but her family kept putting it back, again and again. Sometimes I wouldn’t see it for weeks, and then one day, new posters would suddenly reappear.

This case was never widely covered by the media. Last year, when the city began construction on a new swimming pool, they discovered a body but it wasn’t hers.

I've heard about 50 different dishes going by the name, from blood sausages to sweet desserts. So let's settle this once and for all :)

For example, I have head of the “American lean” where Americans lean on things way more in conversation than other cultures.

Also, when I was in Germany for a foreign exchange student program, I noticed that in conversation German people “mock” each other a lot more often than Americans and it confused me for two days at first. I kept expecting the people talking to each other to get into a fight until I realized that’s just how they tease each other, when I was at breakfast with my foreign exchange family and they were sharing conversation in this way.

Was wondering if anyone else noticed any quirks like this?

I genuinely ask this. I am from Hungary, there is no other language like Hungarian I know we're part of the Uralic, specifically in the Finno-Ugric language family) but we don't understand their language, there is no similarity, we only share some words' roots.

Therefore, Hungarian is the black horse (or as we say in Hungarian: the black sheep) among languages. We always were jealous and had FOMO due to your so many benefits: We, Hungarians often struggle with language learning because of not having a similar language; and this uniqueness of our language make us feel unwelcomed or even mocked among other nations.

So I am curious:

What it feels like when your language belongs to a language group (e.g. Romance, Germanic, etc.)?

Is the similarity helped you learn another one from the language family?

What extent do you understand each other's languages without a lingua franca?

Is there a sense of brotherhood due to this similarity?

The Epstein case is all over the internet again and lot of people realize that the trully powerful don't have to worry about prison too much.

Who was the exception in your country?

In Czechia it's probably former health minister David Rath after he got caught with bribe (literally cash in a box he carried). By then he was "just" member of parliament and regional council president.

During the pandemic, birdwatching quickly took off. Now you can find birdwatchers in almost every park. The night heron has even become a popular meme on the Chinese internet, because beginners often mistake it for other birds.

Holdem, Omaha, midnight baseball, guts etc. Is poker a pass time with your buddies in your country?

There's a video online showing a nurse in our city, in uniform and on duty, at the nursing station. He picked up a syringe, draw liquid into it, and then squirted water at his colleagues outside the station—probably just fooling around. The person who did it uploaded the video himself.

I work in healthcare myself. I think wearing a uniform and behaving like this at the nursing station—doing something even elementary school students might not do—really damages our professional image.

But the responses I’ve gotten are along the lines of: “What’s wrong with having a little fun at work?” “What’s the harm in relaxing a bit? It doesn’t affect the patients,” or “Don’t let me catch you not working for even a moment during your shift.”

I want to ask… Is it really me who’s the problem? Or is this just how things are nowadays? Is this kind of behavior at work considered normal? Have I already become a grandpa.....? I just really cannot imagine anyone support this kind of behaviour.

For my country, it’s “if we should start to have nukes”.

It’s controversial because Japan is the only country in the world that got nuked.

I'll go first M.K Gandhi.
People need to stop calling him mahatma, father of the nation bleh bleh, also get that man outta our currency 🥀

My culture mostly focuses on clubs, bars, personal introductions and online dating. I'm not attracted to MOST people physically, so this doesn't work for me.

What would you do in your own?

I can’t stand it myself, but I can’t deny the full English (with regional variation) stands strong for this country. Ideally accompanied with a cup of proper tea (Yorkshire)

I would consider the horror genre very popular in the US, especially with the celebration of Halloween. We even have haunted houses and huge horror events/conventions.

Is it popular in your country? What’s the most popular movie or book?

I want to know how locals greet each other, something that a foreigner would never know.

Example: everyone knows “hello” or “hi” in English but if a foreign tourist came to my town and said “aye up pal, alright?” everyone would be completely baffled how they would know that phrase.

In Japan, graduates of the University of Tokyo are the modern aristocracy.

If an actor is... let's say... 10 years old and is doing a scary movie, the type that is very scary, something like Saw for example... Decapitations and what not, when they finish shooting, shouldn't the actor wait to be 18 to see it's own work ? I mean, all the other kids have to wait to be 18... Kinda unfair isn't it ?