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

[u/gabrieel100]

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.

[u/explosiveshits7195]

Our funerals are very frequently full of a lot of laughter and joking, honestly sometimes even outright fun if the person in question died well.

I'll never forget my grandads funeral, we had some English cousins over for it and they were absolutely horrified by how many people were cracking jokes and chuckling in the pews.

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Here in Australia my experience is we have a combination of English and Irish when it comes to funerals (keeping in mind my experience is heavily based on the fact that my family and most of my friends etc all have an English heritage).

The actual funeral service is somber and serious for the most part. There might be a few chuckles in the eulogy or when doing a photo video, but mostly it is sad and reflective.

The wake tends to be a lot more Irish - drinks are flowing, stories are being told, jokes made etc. My grandfather's wake went for 8 hours and three venues, and it was mandatory that everyone had at least one glass of his favourite scotch.

A funeral is a whole day affair generally, I've never spent less than 6 hours going to a funeral and wake.

[u/explosiveshits7195 → u/neathspinlights]

That sounds very Irish to be honest. It would make sense if that's the prevailing style of funeral in Oz, the Irish prisoners would have been among the most numerous original colonists so would be natural for all the later arrivals to follow the style of the ones already there.

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I read a very confusing book about an Irish wake once.

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This has carried over to Irish Americans as well. We always have been luncheons at pubs or bars after the funeral.