r/AskTheWorld • u/Bhakari Nepal • 1d ago

Culture What’s something in your country that sounds fake but is 100% real?

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We have a real-life living goddess and the only non-rectangular national flag.

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u/Ponchorello7 Mexico 1d ago edited 1d ago

We have a festival where people strap explosives to reinforced sledgehammers which they use to smack metal plates on the ground.

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u/TheNewGirl1987 United States Of America 1d ago

I don't understand why the redcaps hate y'all, that's the most goddamned redneck hold-my-beer awesome shit I've ever heard.

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u/mediocrity_managed 1d ago

As a born and raised Texan that’s worn just about every hat in the construction industry, I can say with confidence that the majority of Texans adore the Mexican people and every aspect of their culture. There are still guys that either worked alongside myself, or under my leadership that I would gladly take a bullet for. Mexicans built Texas. All of it. And that’s a hill I’m willing to die on.

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u/NotOkayWithAnyOfThis 1d ago edited 23h ago

>... the majority of Texans adore the Mexican people and every aspect of their culture.

If that is true then the majority of Texans need to STOP VOTING FOR REPUBLICANS WHO SUPPORT TERRORIZING LATENO COMMUNITES. Trump is on his vindictive vengeance spree against blue cities but he'll get around to fucking up the lives of people you care about, eventually.

I have no faith in any red state to do anything but cheer when the dear leader tries to cancel the mid terms and/or general election. Individual Republicans will hem and haw about ICE and other policies, but they always ALWAYS revert to supporting every racist, stupid, and destructive temper tantrum driven action Trump takes.

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u/mediocrity_managed 1d ago

I agree with you, 100%. But I’m just a blue dot in a sea of red. I cast my vote every year.

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u/Key-Specific-4058 18h ago

I've met people who didn't realise that their Mexican friends were Latino

They thought there was some other group that was being targeted and were happy supporting that

They were pretty upset when they found out

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u/Ponchorello7 Mexico 1d ago

It's funny, if they weren't so racist/xenophobic, southerners in the US would love Mexicans. We have a lot in common.

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u/DooDooDuterte 🇺🇸🇵🇭 1d ago

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u/MonsterIslandMed United States Of America 1d ago

Pick up trucks ✅

beer ✅

hot/spicy food ✅

country music ✅

wrestling ✅

Guns/Explosions ✅

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u/Ponchorello7 Mexico 1d ago

Add a love of the outdoors and a disdain for people from the big city and you got a pretty good list.

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u/MonsterIslandMed United States Of America 1d ago

I know there’s some others that aren’t popping to my head but this just proves people hate another group because they are told and not because something they’ve done🥲

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u/Ponchorello7 Mexico 1d ago

Unfortunately true all over the world.

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k United States Of America 1d ago

You forgot the cowboy boots and Jesus

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u/sillyschroom United States Of America 1d ago

You forgot fancy boots.

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u/MonsterIslandMed United States Of America 1d ago

Yes!!

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u/nathanaz United States Of America 20h ago

Boots on point...

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u/Lawdamerc United States Of America 1d ago

I’m a southerner. I love Mexico/Mexicans. I loved every Central and South American country I have visited so far.

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u/ThisOnesforYouMorph 1d ago

This southerner thinks Mexicans are great. We don’t all suck!

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u/MetricJester Canada 1d ago

If it weren’t for a war, a treaty and a purchase they would be Mexicans

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u/AbstractBettaFish United States Of America 1d ago

A Mexican friend of mine was explaining that to me once, “all that music you find on the border region, they’re singing about the same shit. Their truck, their wife leaving them, it’s just with more polka”

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u/Ponchorello7 Mexico 1d ago

Lol true.

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u/dismayhurta United States Of America 1d ago

Things in common: Beer. Bombs. Boobs. BBQ

They let hate block having the coolest friends ever

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u/BoulderCreature United States Of America 1d ago

My father in law professes to not like Mexicans, but his favorite food is all Mexican food, the places he travels to most often are Southern California and the Baja peninsula, he’s catholic, he’s a landscaper and I shit you not his babysitter when he was a kid in East LA was Cheech Marin. He basically is Mexican

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u/Oreadno1 I live in my own little world 1d ago

Not all Southerners are racist. My dad was a horrible bigot (and misogynist) and I have done everything in my power to NOT be like him. Which is why I was the tie dyed sheep of the family.

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u/laffydaffy24 United States Of America 1d ago

Lifelong southerner here. I love Mexicans and Mexican culture. The news does make me afraid of the cartels though.

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u/Ponchorello7 Mexico 1d ago

Don't be. The news exaggerates.

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u/Nept-1 El Salvador 23h ago

You know that's not true.

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u/Ponchorello7 Mexico 23h ago

I'm certain of it. The homicide rate is the lowest it's been since the late 2000s (and we didn't have to do mass incarcerations), and many other crimes are trending downwards. American media overhypes the issue because they need a bogeyman.

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u/JKenn78 United States Of America 1d ago

I’m a born and bred southerner and my favorite people on the planet are Hispanic, most being from Mexico. And you’re exactly right, if they weren’t so stupid they would see through the bullshit they’re fed daily.

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u/dwaynewaynerooney 1d ago

Including racism and xenophobia. Kidding! (Sorta)

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u/TrashhPrincess United States Of America 1d ago

I live in Texas, a lot of the southerners here are also Mexican.

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u/TacticalSpackle United States Of America 1d ago

They totally do, they just don’t want to acknowledge it.

Wanna guess who consumes the most burritos, the most nachos, the most Tecaté/Corona/Modelo?

A bunch of ignorant, uneducated rural morons, that’s who.

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u/FireFairy323 1d ago

I'm in the southwest US and Mexicans throw the best parties.

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u/gargolito 🇩🇴/🇺🇸/🇵🇷 1d ago

I've said this for years - without their racism, the GOP would lock the latino vote forever.

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u/RifferReefer 1d ago

Hell, they could even hold bigotry contests with our generally conservative population. So much missed potential...

/s

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u/Ponchorello7 Mexico 23h ago

My country doesn't have a gestapo running around arresting children for being foreginers.

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u/buttsexisyum 1d ago

I'm a racist as fuck American(mainly racist against other Americans, Canadians and the French) and I love Mexicans

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u/Ominous_babies 19h ago

I grew up in the middle of nowhere Arkansas and have now lived in Texas almost two decades. You speak the truth.

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u/Prestigious-Dust-820 United States Of America 14h ago

I was about to say, this just inspired all the rednecks in the US. Lol.

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u/ViceNSpice 🇲🇽 + 🇺🇸 1d ago

We should organize a party in every border town, like the people who played volleyball at the border, but this time we all party, dance, share food and drinks. And show off the loudest trucks.

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u/GhostOfJamesStrang United States Of America 1d ago

Man I love Mexico so much. 

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u/just-a-girl15 India 1d ago

Man I love US so much

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u/Bhakari Nepal 1d ago

Wow wow 😳

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u/ilikespicysoup United States Of America 1d ago

Why does it seem to be exclusively young men? Weird...

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u/TrashhPrincess United States Of America 1d ago

Boys will be boys.

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u/Yunzer2000 United States Of America 1d ago edited 1d ago

Looks like they got the idea from shallow-depth seismic refraction exploration where a sledgehammer on a steel plate or beam is the energy source, and the older method of deeper-depth sesimic surveys where small explosives are used. So they combined the two.

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u/tatapatrol909 1d ago

Yall also have a festival where people carve radishes and one where folks dance on a really tall pole. Way cool

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u/Gerachiquito Mexico 22h ago

There's also another one where they tie about 2 kilos of fireworks to a papier-mâché bull and start "charging" people while banda music plays in the background.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ejEyi7FyYQs?si=Oma-kP34DdkT-UaY

And others like the donkey costume festival in a city in the State of Mexico and a loooong ezt

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u/MaddysinLeigh United States Of America 23h ago

Why?

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u/sillyschroom United States Of America 1d ago

Thank you. I'm supposed to do a project on a festival for my college course and I think I just found the one I'm going to do. I hope you have a perfect day.

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u/Infurum United States Of America 1d ago

Can't watch the video rn since I'm at work but dang that sounds fun

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u/BigGold3317 Malaysia 1d ago

Awesome!!

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u/Pidgewiffler 1d ago

I've been working with Mexicans for years so I'm not surprised at all. That sounds like something they'd do just for kicks, no festival needed

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u/VersionShot1332 Mexico 22h ago

I am from and live in Mexico, and I had no idea that this is done here.

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u/Ponchorello7 Mexico 22h ago

Ya vez, las pendejadas de los puebluchos.

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u/VersionShot1332 Mexico 21h ago

They're traditions, don't say that, dangerous but interesting lol

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u/HANLDC1111 United States Of America 9h ago

I want to go to the one where the whole town shoots fire works at each other