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People are racists on a town to town basis.
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One of the official language isn’t used in the daily life despite having the larger speaker base. People use dialect.
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These dialect can vary a lot between regions or even towns.
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People will be angry and rant if the train run 5 minutes late.
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The biodiversity is actually bad.
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You can legally urinate on a UNESCO monument.
Switzerland
Some others:
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Half of the people with swiss citizenship have a foreign background at some level.
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The majority of immigration went from permanent to temporary. People come for a small amount of time.
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Despite being one of the most neoliberal country, people of the city of Berne voted to allocate money to the self-managed cultural center. This can be explained by the city-countryside political divide.
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Switzerland doesn’t have direct democracy but a semi-direct democracy.
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Appenzell Innerrhoden and Glarus still have a Landsgemeinde where people vote cantonal level legislations using show of hands vote.
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Corruption at the local level is high.
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There are more unwritten rules than laws.
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People keep their friends during the entire life. As a side effect, people can be seen as unfriendly. It can take up to 10 years to make a local friends.
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You can reach 95% of the country by public transportation.
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The Habsburg dinasty originated from the small town of Habsburg in the Canton of Aargau.
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A traditional Christmas meal includes KFC and cake in Japan.
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
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…
Canada is, surprisingly enough, not part of America.
We’re not America’s hat - you’re Canada’s asshole. /s
Sejm RP youtube channel (basically parliamant) recently got 600k subscribers and live streams have over 1M views
Here’s a few:
- Our national animal is a Unicorn
- We are oddly proud of our tap water being drinkable
- We have nearly 800 islands
- The saltire (our flag) is the oldest in the world allegedly, from 8th century
- Despite being part of the bigger country of United Kingdom, Scotland has its own entirely separate legal and education systems.
Scotland
There are so many natural springs in the Swedish inland, that you don’t really need to worry about bringing drinking water when hiking.
It is recommended to bring a water filter with you, but most of the water is clean and safe to drink.
How often do moose bite people in Sweden?
Not often as long as you’re not karving your initials into its side.
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.
The night before December 6th, children leaves their shoes on front of the chimney, along with a glass of milk and a carrot for Saint-Nicholas and his donkey (other countries say it’s a horse, but it’s a donkey for us).
Saint-Nicholas leaves a bunch (like, a lot) of candy and toys during the night for children to find when they wake up.
Traditional treats include speculoos, chocolate coins, nuts, clementines and “guimauve” (like marshmallows but a little less soft, in the shape of clogs or religious figures, sometimes chocolate-covered).
Also, on Easter, children will find eggs in their backyard. They are dropped by “the bells”. The story is that the bells of Rome fly across Europe and drop eggs along the way (see this postcard). So when the children are done finding all the eggs, they shout “THANK YOU BELLS”.
Belgium
I thought this would be Dominic the Donkey
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 learn about other languages the more I realize that most languages do that. English probably also did that before it became mixed with french
Curiosity…. Why is the USA excluded?
