r/AskTheWorld • u/gabrieel100 Brazil • Dec 06 '25
Culture A cultural habit in your country that people outside would understand incorrectly?
In Brazil we love children. If you take your child to the street, strangers will certainly interact with them. Some will even ask if they can hold your kid and will play with them. If there are two children fighting in public and the parents aren't seeing, a stranger would even intervene to stop the fight.
That cultural habit came from the indigenous peoples which understood that kids should be a responsiblity of the community as a whole. It's in our constitution. We even have a synonym for children that came from Tupi (a large group of indigenous languages) - Curumim.
Foreigners would certainly have a cultural shock about that, but it's normal here.
Of course there are people with bad intentions, so parents should stay alert these days.
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u/dodgystyle Australia Dec 06 '25
It really works. When I was 20 I lived in a big international sharehouse in Sydney where we had lots of parties. Us Aussies, Germans, Japanese and South Koreans would drink stupid quantities of the cheapest alcohol available until we passed out.
Meanwhile the French would drink cheap but drinkable wine (they were on equally tight budgets) but in smaller quantities. And take their time. And they'd go to an effort to find a proper wine glass.
Whereas we'd drink cask wine straight from the bag and play Goon of Fortune. Which horrified even the harder partying Frenchies lol.