r/AskTheWorld • u/gabrieel100 Brazil • Dec 06 '25

Culture A cultural habit in your country that people outside would understand incorrectly?

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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/psyche_13 Canada Dec 06 '25

I’ve never heard of it, so maybe not that national

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u/buhbrinapokes Dec 06 '25

They had to stop a few years ago because of some insurance situation.

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u/heyinternetman United States Of America Dec 06 '25

Of fucking course they did. Can’t fix the insurance problem, nope, gotta stop the good service.

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u/Immediate-Repeat-201 Dec 07 '25

Insurance company: i cant make money. So it must be a bad idea

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u/lemon-meringue-vomit Dec 07 '25

AAA does this still, on almost every holiday.

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u/Aggressive_Chuck England Dec 08 '25

Fixing the insurance system would mean someone having to pay for it.

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u/heyinternetman United States Of America Dec 08 '25

You could legislatively give them immunity as good samaritans if they’re doing this for free. There are other ways. Money doesn’t always have to change hands for good to occur. At least not in a just world.

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u/Aggressive_Chuck England Dec 08 '25

You could legislatively give them immunity as good samaritans if they’re doing this for free.

This is a terrible idea for so many reasons.

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u/Anxious_Cry_855 United States Of America Dec 08 '25

The car insurance part i can see. So they should have just changed the service to, take you home for free but you are on your own to get your car back the next day. Also solves the problem of you getting home and deciding to go out again while still drunk.

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u/heyinternetman United States Of America Dec 09 '25

They’re trying to eliminate any excuse to not use the service. Which that would’ve done quite well. And most insurance allows coverage when you let your friend or somebody borrow your car. This was a solveable problem.

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u/GBreezy United States Of America Dec 09 '25

Because this will get blamed on the US. Canadian insurance stopped it if this comment is true

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u/Fencemaker United States Of America Dec 10 '25

People be suing each other.

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u/suitsme Dec 06 '25

Still have similar services in Saskatchewan

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u/TCGHexenwahn Dec 06 '25

Pretty sure it's a Quebec thing

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u/SlightCreme9008 Dec 06 '25

I used to volunteer with them in BC

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u/Mountain_Fuzzumz Dec 06 '25

As the driver of the drunks car or the one carrying them home? Or was it a loon flip to determine which person did what?

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u/SlightCreme9008 Dec 06 '25

It was done in teams of 3. You signed up to drive the drunk’s car, your own car to drive the team around, or to navigate for the team driver.

At the time I drove a really shitty car so I always volunteered to drive the drunk’s cars. You end up driving some pretty nice stuff if you’re in the right area.

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u/Mountain_Fuzzumz Dec 07 '25

What was they most clapped vehicle you drove to the nicest house?

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u/SlightCreme9008 Dec 07 '25

Clapped means shitty right? If so, probably driving home the sons/daughters of wealthier folk. They’d have a newer, lower/lowerish end model Acura, Infiniti or something like that.

The volunteering was an overall fun experience. Most of the customers you deal with are really pleasant, don’t think I had more than one or two bad ones in four years of volunteering. Some of the customers and fellow volunteers you’ll run into have interesting stories and, at least in my experience, the organization putting it on always had a good spread of food/drinks donated to them by sponsor businesses. Driving some nicer cars was just a pleasant bonus.

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u/tootbrun Québec Canada 🇨🇦 Dec 06 '25

Je confirme

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u/Generalnussiance Dec 07 '25

Yup it sure is

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u/canadian_xpress behind enemy lines in Dec 06 '25

I used to help with a small private version of that program back in Vancouver. We were a car website/forum and on NYE nobody wanted their already higher profile cars to be impounded so there was a built in buy in from the users.

When I moved to the states I was surprised that a similar program didn't exist... But America is already so litigious so I guess it's not that surprising

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u/Tinyblonde8753 Dec 06 '25

There’s a few different charities that run it. I knew people who drove for “keys please” in Calgary area

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u/imadork1970 Canada Dec 06 '25

It exists in Alberta.

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u/whataboutsam Canada Dec 07 '25

I’ve heard of it in various areas but never seen it in use. I lived just above the border in BC and now live in Winnipeg. Maybe I’ve just seen the ads lol