“Familiar” Cultures Have you ever traveled somewhere and just immediately understood more about the culture/vibe than you should otherwise know? In my particular case it was countries with a shared background. My mother side is Portuguese and she is 2nd generation American. Looks wise I’m a perfect blend of my maternal grandfather and my actual father. I traveled i…

From The Substance to Mormon wives: the year pop culture’s stretched, stuffed faces became too strange to ignore submitted by /u/Chino_Blanco

Do some cultures openly blast their speaker phone? I’m by the gate at Narita waiting to fly home to Vancouver. I’ve had three separate instances of people just blasting tiktoks or having video calls on speaker over the past couple hours. Not sure what the language was but it sounded Thai or Cambodian in all instances. I asked the first guy if he had headphones and he said no and I gave up after …

Any of you from “friendly” cultures try to tone your personality down when traveling? Canadian here, from a particularly friendly area even for Canada. I have a French mother, and growing up she always berated my dad when we were visiting family in Europe for being too friendly. As a result, as an adult I have always tried to “tone” it down when abroad…but I inevitably get tagged as “Yank” (Canada and the US might as well be the…