There are broadly 150 indigenous language groups but only about 14 are still in common use.
If you’ve worked for a single company/system for 7 years you get a bonus 6 weeks ‘long-service’ leave.
We have a native cherry that grows inside out called a cherry ballart.
Our cuisine is really varied depending on your geography with a lot of soth East Asian influences. Most people will make stir-fry reasonably often and we have our own variations of sushi and dim sum which would offend most Japanese or Chinese people.
Sejm RP youtube channel (basically parliamant) recently got 600k subscribers and live streams have over 1M views
We take folk dancing very seriously. There are A LOT of folk dance ensembles and they vary from random hobbyist groups to company-sponsored groups of 80+ dancers. There are lots of competitions, drama and every 5 years - a huge concert where most ensembles participate and perform in a stadium. One dance can contain up to 1000 dancers at the same time.
During this year’s final dance the spectators mentioned that they could feel the ground shaking.
-Latvia
Very cool.
South Africa has 11 official languages and some of the friendliest people you’ll ever meet.
Canada is, surprisingly enough, not part of America.
We’re not America’s hat - you’re Canada’s asshole. /s
Just because we do our best here in Canada to not be like our American cousins … it doesn’t mean that a good number of us think, act and believe like our southern relatives.
Honestly, I live in northern Ontario where we shouldn’t have so much American influence but it’s so strange to meet and talk to outright Trump supporters with ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ stickers, don’t trend on me and Confederate flags. It’s especially strange when some back woods people I know barely have any knowledge of Canadian politics but enjoy mentioning their second amendment rights and the right to bear arms (both of which is an American thing and not part of Canadian history)
That’s extremely strange. I’m curious - in your experiences, are these usually Canadian-born people or do they sound like they could be from America?
There’s a significant number of them that are Canadian born. Honestly, it speaks a lot to the influence of fox news and other right wing propaganda outlets… these people weren’t the target - the propaganda isn’t even relevant to them - and yet they’re just as brainwashed as maga idiots.
It’s happening in Alberta too.
It’s just the side effects of news media like Fox news.
They probably had a bit of conservative bent to their politics to begin with but when you toss in daily hourly propaganda to these people, their ideas start to sound normal and even necessary to them.
I also have a bunch of friends in southern Ontario around Hamilton and Haldimand region and you can’t believe the number of boomers down there who just leave Fox News on all day in the background. They watch more American news than they do Canadian and they are the same group that will call the pubic broadcaster CBC as communist or socialist. It’s amazing how powerful propaganda can be to a whole group of people. It may not fool everyone, but it fools enough of them to make difference.
I hate the fact that my country infects Canada with that filth. You’re wonderful neighbors, and we were already enough trouble before Fox “News” came along.
We are Canada’s pants.
No - they’ve already got pants. Nice and sturdy ones. Bit jealous.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/qarlinngua-nunavut-arctic-bay-hidden-sea-arch-1.4515601
Nice to hear from Europe-America in this thread.
Now go play with Exotic-America and his juguetes in the corner and let the real countries talk.
If you are going by approximate anatomy, Canada’s asshole would probably be the Panama Canal. Y’all poop boats.
You’re not part of the United States of America, but you’re still part of the continent of North America.
Canada is the younger brother of the United States of America… you do everything with an eye on them… And this is not a surprise to anyone
Most slavic languages probably don’t have spelling contests - what you say has mostly exact textual representation, except some letters that can sound alike when spoken.
The more I lear about other languages the more I realize that most languages do that. English probably also did that before it became mixed with french
We don’t let sheep vote here, despite being outnumbered by them. We also have no romantic relationships with them either.
Australians suck and are terrible at sport. Don’t pick on them though, because we’re the Pacific redneck brothers. Only we can pick on Australians.
You always know when Tonga or Samoa is playing a sports match, because you’ll see the flags and hear the cars tooting everywhere.
Guy Fawkes is a real big deal. Fireworks will be going all week.
All the fish and chip shops are owned by Chinese, all the dairies by Indians, and all the bakeries by Cambodians.
It’s difficult to find some nationality that isn’t represented by a restaurant somewhere.
Our national dish is Butter Chicken.
-New Zealand
Guy Fawkes is a real big deal. Fireworks will be going all week.
Try a major UK city. It’s dark early, often foggy, people are fighting each other with rockets on the streets. People are holding hands and burning effigies of the latest prime minister.
God do I miss England in November.
you are writing about a place where every second person is prone to skin cancer and you don’t even notice it… It’s just like a cold (illness ) for you. And the fact that you live so far from the rest of the world that if you have the opportunity, you certainly try to escape from the country (despite the high level of prosperity of the country). And you can’t swimming in ocean… water is cold, evenin summer…
Curiosity…. Why is the USA excluded?
USA wasn’t excluded. Just the people currently living in the USA.
Technically if your from the USA and living abroad you could talk about the USA.
We are not middle earth
I concur
(But my instance doesn’t easily identify me as kiwi)
Ah. The forgotten lands, according to some maps.
There there be dragons
Well obviously, you’re a couple of islands surrounded by thousands of kilometres of water, that makes you Middle Ocean
Weed isn’t legal in The Netherlands, the sale of weed is only condoned. Meaning the coffee shops who sell weed cant legally purchase it.
As far as the laws concerned it magically appears.
so they illegally purchase it and then sell illegal goods, legally?
In Finland, during winter, we enjoy making wide openings into an icy lake near the shore, and go swimming in it. Best translation I can find is ice swimming. This is usually paired with a piping hot sauna, and you alternate between the 80-100 celcius hot room and taking dips in the ice water. If no lake/similar body of water is available, rolling around naked in snow is also a valid option.
and translation is not necessary, here in Russia we call such people (swimming in an ice hole in winter) simply: walrus
I remember this is also a cooking style called blanching.
or in this case, reverse blanching? – cold first, then hot.
We do that in Michigan too but it’s to punish people who commit crimes against fashion
It’s probably reasonably well-known, but nearly (or around) 90% of Aussies live within 50km of the coast, despite us having a landmass similar in size to the USA.
This website has maps of how french words are pronounced differently depending on where people live, sometimes the words aren’t even the same but still refer to the same thing!
https://francaisdenosregions.com/index-des-billets/
Of course it’s only interesting if you’re into french language haha
A traditional Christmas meal includes KFC and cake in Japan.
We use the ISO-8601 date and time format, mostly. We separate the portions by points, not dashes, though. So a typical date looks like this: 2023.12.22. If we shorten it without the year, it’s 12.22., or 5.12. We say it with just the numbers, without the points, and shorten “hónap” (month) to “hó”. So its “5. hó 12”, basically “5th mo’ 12”.
For time we use the 24H format, regularly even in everyday speech. If it’s very clear that you are in the late afternoon or evening, you just say “6 o’clock 24” or “13 o’clock 46”.
So always from bigger to smaller “powers”. It’s auto-sorted on most filesystems, table of contents etc. and very clear in everyday use. It’s nice.
Hungary.
Just to be pedantic, iso 8601 stipulates that the delimiting character is a “-” not a “.”
That’s why I said “mostly”. (Points instead of dashes.)
Szoszi kérsz eladó bojlert?
If it’s very clear that you are in the late afternoon or evening, you just say “6 o’clock 24” or “13 o’clock 46”.
Isn’t 6 o’clock 24 in the morning?
When it’s obvious that you are talking about the evening, like it’s winter, dark, and you are walking on the street and somebody asks what time it is, you just say 6 o’clock/hour 24.
Thank you for explaining.
