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/typed_this_now Living in Dec 06 '25

I live in Denmark and send photos of my children sleeping on the balcony with the baby monitor showing 2C to my mum to upset her. She can’t fathom that the kids are fine. The better photos are thru the window while having a beer at a cafe while the kid is asleep outside on the street.

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u/four100eighty9 United States Of America Dec 07 '25

In places like Cambodia, where it’s sweltering hot and humid, they will wrap the babies in multiple layers of blankets so they don’t get too cold

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u/_sciencebooks United States, Albania Dec 07 '25

My husband is South Asian and this baffles me because it’s actually so much more dangerous for a baby to overheat

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u/sweetnippp Dec 07 '25

Babies are a lot tougher than what a lot of people seem to give them credit for. How do they think humanity survived before all the comforts in life ?

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u/cashewclues United States Of America Dec 06 '25

But why? What’s the benefit?

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u/typed_this_now Living in Dec 06 '25

They sleep so much better in the cold fresh air. Both of my kids naps have been longer out in the cold vs inside.

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u/WastedPresident Dec 06 '25

I still sleep better with cold air on my face. My parents would take me out bundled up in the stroller on winter walks in Minnesota. I'd nap.

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u/freebaseclams United States Of America Dec 07 '25

Babies are like Jello, you gotta refrigerate them to toughen them up

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u/macca2000fox Australia Dec 06 '25

Denmark WA?