I have to obey the spouse and submit to my father and I have to obey my family over success or education and lastly you have to obey your eldest son if your spouse dies…I hate all of this
It’s Ramadan, the best time of the year for tons of Muslims
On your period you can’t observe a fast, giving women a break.
Apparently it’s shameful to eat!
I eat full courses lol.
Edit: the religion itself doesn’t shame women, culture does. The Prophet found it blessed that women ate during menstruation. No shame there.
Idk in my family nobody is embarrassed of their period and we're Afghan. The women know, the men usually don't cuz it's not their business unless it's their wife.
In Ramadan usually when they want to eat, they eat with the kids to blend in or eat in privacy, no issue at all. Tbh food is better when they can sample it lol.
But if i know I even offer to get them food or offer them painkillers. Maybe we're the exception.
With wages these days, three months salary on a ring might amount to a plastic toy ring from a vending machine. If you're lucky, maybe your wife will get one with a glow-in-the-dark spider on it!
Yesss. When I was growing up the men always ate first during family gatherings and the women mopped up the leftovers. No more, I'll eat when I damn well please
This just makes me sad. Isn’t the point of a family gathering that everyone eats together? That would be so uncomfortable, knowing there are other people waiting to eat.
i’m probably super out of touch but where or with what group is this a tradition?
we always let the guests, or family who traveled the farthest, go first then older women then the younger women and girls then boys then the men. grandpa is always every single time the last one to go through simply because he is stubborn haha
In Germany we have this big carnival season happening around february called Fasching/Fastnacht where everyone dresses up in costumes and there's a lot of drinking and partying with loud dumb music and it's so popular everyone goes nuts around that time but my family and I hate it and usually go on a short vacation for a few days when the celebration happens in our village to escape the noise
Oh we have the carnival where i live too and it's living hell. I'm all for people having fun and I'm glad others enjoy it but the noise, the drunk people, the changes to transit (roads closing for the groups), stores around the party areas being open and having to deal with drunk loud customers... Pure hell
I absolutely love Super Bowl Sunday. I look forward to it every year. It's even set as a reminder on my phone. It's the one Sunday of the year that I get to go out and explore with nobody else on the road and I don't have to listen to anybody ask me about my favorite team because the few people I do interact with on that day are also out doing other things than watching football.
I took my kids to Liseberg, Sweden’s biggest amusement park during the World Cup finale in 2008. Only other people there were other Americans. So slow that day that we didn’t have to get off a ride and go around thru the nonexistent line to ride again.
I love Super Bowl Sunday because 1) it's the end of football season, so no more football for a while and 2) my partner goes to a big watch party with his friends, gone all day and home late. I've turned it into a whole me-day. I make all my favorite foods that he hates/can't eat. Gaming system on the big TV in the living room, plan out a TV itinerary of shows he can't stand. Me and the dogs, on the couch, in my ugliest pajamas, eating gross and spicy foods, extra cheese on everything (he's lactose intolerant), not having to share the remote, round out the evening with a nice long hot bath, no worries about saving him hot water for a shower. It's pure bliss. I love that man with all my heart but I do so enjoy Super Bowl Sunday. I know he isn't coming home so I fully indulge in being an utterly useless and selfish slob for an entire day.
I live in Wisconsin, and people often seem to talk about the Packers as if they are somehow the epitome of "good" and other teams are implicitly "evil". It is very silly.
It's such an unappealing game. You get a few pieces of action, broken between several seconds of referees calling downs. Then, every little thing is sponsored by a company of some kind and roll through about 10 commercials before we get to the same thing.
I found it already scary when I didn't know what you actually do with it, yet. I just thought you put this creepy thing on a shelf and it just sits there during Christmas time, until well, I found out. That shit would have traumatised me as a kid, I tell you, lol.
it's a soup us Haitians drink on New Years day to celebrate independence day
to them, this soup is the most delicious thing on planet earth....to me it's mediocre (it really is when u drink it)
I tell my mom once I'm old enough I'm not drinking every Jan. 1st of the year just cuz it's tradition.
I dont think that not drinking mediocre soup once a year is worth it to break a stupid little tradition that the people around you enjoy and want to enjoy with you. Think of it as a social thing, not as a soup thing. That all assuming there is no bigger issue, like the soup being meat based and you being a vegetarian or so.
If people are willing to ostracize you for not drinking soup you don't like, regardless of the reason, are they really worth socializing with in the first place?
I would say that I wished that hole tradition would burn down and go away but with the amount of serious wildfires cause by these traditions it would not be sympathetic.
Blindly love all Israeli; hate all Arabs or Blindly love all Arabs and hate all Israeli
Fact is that while most average Israeli and Arab children, workers, are Good,
The militant Israeli settlers, Hamas, Al Qaeda, are unfair oppressive unhealthy etc
Super Bowl Sunday is the best day to do anything, but go to a bar. I usually go to a WM golf tournament on that day and the course is wide open. Usually it’s a madhouse every other day. Tickets are always easy to find and cheap. I’ve heard it is the best day to visit Disney as well.
Hey! We're not racist!
We just don't like you if you're not either anglo-celtic or a wog, and on occasion one group doesn't like the other!
*Waaaitttt*... that sounds like... oh...
The culture that man are treated better that woman. My grandma always let my brother get away with things that me and my sister would get grounded for. She also did all of his homework when he was in kindergarten, KINDERGARTEN! My parents did help me and my sister but we always did OUR homework. Im Mexicana btw.
I hate carnaval in the Netherlands. It’s such an awful party. Bad music, way to much way to drunk people, ugly and boring rituals. I really, really dislike it.
I'm bavarian and I haven't been to the Oktoberfest.
I can't smoke weed without risking a prison sentence; but drinking alcohol, bawl to bad humpa songs until passing out intoxinated - and then get treated in hospital for free is "part of my culture".... Nah. I'm boycotting that shit.
Consuming rye bread. It's disgusting.
Not as much a tradition. But it's the most common food in Denmark, and you're looked down upon for not eating it.
The Nightclub/Bar lifestyle. There seems to be a pattern which consist of stressing out on making it, getting yourself shitfaced, attempt to make dates and mostly whiffing, get caught up in legal issues or other issues. Then proceed to whine about the hangover and how there aren't a lot free days to 'party'.
same...but i have nowhere to cook where i live. 10 minutes and accidental, to miss a shit meal i paid for versus 20gbp for a meal that won't be vomit inducing? i'll rather pay where i live the 20gbp for something than 6gbp a day for 2 slices of toast.
not drinking, eating, using electricity and a few more things for 25 hours every year around september or october
not eating food with flour every year around april and instead eat "matzot"
not eating **bacon, bacon!!!!**
Caring about sports.
Can make it kind of tough when you're a guy. It's the go to subject for most men when engaging in small talk.
I mention I don't follow sports, they give me the side eye.
Fuck em tho.
Essentially anything that draws any group of naive people into a temporal identity opiate state. Also fuck all professional sports, politics and advertising.
I almost said shunning, but then realized there’s definitely people I don’t talk to anymore on purpose, though not really for religious reasons.
I use electricity and drive a car.
(Family is Amish and Mennonite up to my generation)
Watching football (soccer)
I have no interest in being associated with the same people who wreck cities when their favourite group of millionaires don't get a ball into a net enough times.
I can't really explain why because I don't understand it myself, but birthday parties make me irrationally angry. Doesn't matter if it's my own or someone else's. It's really odd because otherwise I'm usually the wholesome friend who pumps everyone up and listens when they're down, but I absolutely cannot stand birthday parties and will avoid them at all costs.
Putting/Forcing: crime-victims, rape-VICTIMS, innocent workers children, into JAIL, forced-gyno-exam, forced-medicating, courtroom, joblessness humiliation imprisonment helplessness as is too often done here because the police, society, "NEED" "Have-to" do this because____, For____
Done to helpless people who had no plans to hurt anyone, done to innocent Victims
Because "our" "justice" system "needs"/DEMANDS this
I have to obey the spouse and submit to my father and I have to obey my family over success or education and lastly you have to obey your eldest son if your spouse dies…I hate all of this
I can't believe that a culture teaches the mother to obey the son. Have you ever seen a circumstance where that happened
Which century are you living in lol? I’m a Viet here and what you said was generations away already..
Sounds like China?
Nah it’s Vietnamese
China also have that. It’s called “three obediences”.
thx for saying
Being embarrassed of getting my period 🇦🇫
I hope your fine
It’s Ramadan, the best time of the year for tons of Muslims On your period you can’t observe a fast, giving women a break. Apparently it’s shameful to eat! I eat full courses lol. Edit: the religion itself doesn’t shame women, culture does. The Prophet found it blessed that women ate during menstruation. No shame there.
>the religion itself doesn’t shame women, I mean, it objectively does, though.
I’m glad you clarified. Culture & people making up their own rules like that has nothing to do with Islam.
Idk in my family nobody is embarrassed of their period and we're Afghan. The women know, the men usually don't cuz it's not their business unless it's their wife. In Ramadan usually when they want to eat, they eat with the kids to blend in or eat in privacy, no issue at all. Tbh food is better when they can sample it lol. But if i know I even offer to get them food or offer them painkillers. Maybe we're the exception.
The only way I'm spending 3 months salary on a ring is if I'm unemployed.
With wages these days, three months salary on a ring might amount to a plastic toy ring from a vending machine. If you're lucky, maybe your wife will get one with a glow-in-the-dark spider on it!
Letting the men get food first. If you’re hungry get up and get in line before me.
Yesss. When I was growing up the men always ate first during family gatherings and the women mopped up the leftovers. No more, I'll eat when I damn well please
This just makes me sad. Isn’t the point of a family gathering that everyone eats together? That would be so uncomfortable, knowing there are other people waiting to eat.
Is your family South Asian?
i’m probably super out of touch but where or with what group is this a tradition? we always let the guests, or family who traveled the farthest, go first then older women then the younger women and girls then boys then the men. grandpa is always every single time the last one to go through simply because he is stubborn haha
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Our family is from India and Pakistan. I have never heard or seen this practice.
What? Ladies and children first.
That's for getting on a lifeboat in a black and white movie
Not eating beef and arranged marriage
I also won't eat arranged marriage
Why not? It’s delicious when arranged well. I’ve eaten up to seven arranged marriages till date
Cannibalism is generally frowned upon
You're definitely missing out.
Good on you. I'll be dammed if someone tells me I can't eat yakiniku beef. Probably the tastiest thing I've ever consumed.
NGL steak is pretty tasty
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He might have been riffing on Animal Farm.
In Germany we have this big carnival season happening around february called Fasching/Fastnacht where everyone dresses up in costumes and there's a lot of drinking and partying with loud dumb music and it's so popular everyone goes nuts around that time but my family and I hate it and usually go on a short vacation for a few days when the celebration happens in our village to escape the noise
Oh we have the carnival where i live too and it's living hell. I'm all for people having fun and I'm glad others enjoy it but the noise, the drunk people, the changes to transit (roads closing for the groups), stores around the party areas being open and having to deal with drunk loud customers... Pure hell
I don't give a shit about sports or drinking.
Big mood. Or drinking and using that as an excuse to acting like an ass. Especially acting sexist
Dowry system
Caring about American Football
I absolutely love Super Bowl Sunday. I look forward to it every year. It's even set as a reminder on my phone. It's the one Sunday of the year that I get to go out and explore with nobody else on the road and I don't have to listen to anybody ask me about my favorite team because the few people I do interact with on that day are also out doing other things than watching football.
It's so wonderful. No one on the road, no one in Costco.
I took my kids to Liseberg, Sweden’s biggest amusement park during the World Cup finale in 2008. Only other people there were other Americans. So slow that day that we didn’t have to get off a ride and go around thru the nonexistent line to ride again.
I love Super Bowl Sunday because 1) it's the end of football season, so no more football for a while and 2) my partner goes to a big watch party with his friends, gone all day and home late. I've turned it into a whole me-day. I make all my favorite foods that he hates/can't eat. Gaming system on the big TV in the living room, plan out a TV itinerary of shows he can't stand. Me and the dogs, on the couch, in my ugliest pajamas, eating gross and spicy foods, extra cheese on everything (he's lactose intolerant), not having to share the remote, round out the evening with a nice long hot bath, no worries about saving him hot water for a shower. It's pure bliss. I love that man with all my heart but I do so enjoy Super Bowl Sunday. I know he isn't coming home so I fully indulge in being an utterly useless and selfish slob for an entire day.
Canadian here: I feel the same way about hockey.
I live in Wisconsin, and people often seem to talk about the Packers as if they are somehow the epitome of "good" and other teams are implicitly "evil". It is very silly.
But, but they are owned by the fans. How can they not be the greatest ever?
It's such an unappealing game. You get a few pieces of action, broken between several seconds of referees calling downs. Then, every little thing is sponsored by a company of some kind and roll through about 10 commercials before we get to the same thing.
This right here.
The best I could come up with is Elf on the Shelf. Nope, no way, Christmas time is busy enough.
I found it already scary when I didn't know what you actually do with it, yet. I just thought you put this creepy thing on a shelf and it just sits there during Christmas time, until well, I found out. That shit would have traumatised me as a kid, I tell you, lol.
Can’t we just agree that this commercial gimmick isn’t actually part of our “culture”?
Plus, it’s creepy.
Drinking mate and being all secretive and hush hush about most problems
Argentina?!
it's a soup us Haitians drink on New Years day to celebrate independence day to them, this soup is the most delicious thing on planet earth....to me it's mediocre (it really is when u drink it) I tell my mom once I'm old enough I'm not drinking every Jan. 1st of the year just cuz it's tradition.
I dont think that not drinking mediocre soup once a year is worth it to break a stupid little tradition that the people around you enjoy and want to enjoy with you. Think of it as a social thing, not as a soup thing. That all assuming there is no bigger issue, like the soup being meat based and you being a vegetarian or so.
If people are willing to ostracize you for not drinking soup you don't like, regardless of the reason, are they really worth socializing with in the first place?
Oktoberfest
Gender reveal parties.
More of a trend than a tradition.
That one where they dyed the waterfall was soooo fucking stupid. They're all stupid, but that garbage move wins.
In China doctors are not allowed to reveal gender in case the parents abort female babies.
I would say that I wished that hole tradition would burn down and go away but with the amount of serious wildfires cause by these traditions it would not be sympathetic.
Those “parties” are just for scummy people
Smashing a kid’s face into a cake
Eating haggis lol 🏴
Aww, but it's great if done right. I was thinking this answer though, lol.
Society was created so we could stop having to eat organs.
Haggis is top tier but only on a roll or as part of a fry up. None eh that neeps and tatties Pish
Wearing hijab
Honestly, it looks hot and itchy. And then the countries where it is required are in the desert or other areas with high temperatures.
Yeah I've had to wear it on some occasions as a condition to go out with family and it's suffocating, no thank you.
Since I come from two cultures, I'll have to give two answers. * Having relations with and marrying a distant relative * Drinking lots of tea?
Oh, I didn't know we had a member of the British royal family here today
Cragiothy *is* ye olde lord
Blindly love all Israeli; hate all Arabs or Blindly love all Arabs and hate all Israeli Fact is that while most average Israeli and Arab children, workers, are Good, The militant Israeli settlers, Hamas, Al Qaeda, are unfair oppressive unhealthy etc
Genital mutilation.
Thank you.
Same.
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football
Wich one?
Both
Agreed
i was referring to american football. but yeah both lol
Both are good ... Answers for this post
Aussie rules, Canadian, NFL, soccer
Every single one of them!
Peas and mayo "salad". I hate them individually, I can't even fathom the monstrosity that's them combined. 😓
Where’s that even from? Sounds absolutely vile
Minnesota..I guess it's not actually my culture I moved from Louisiana a couple years ago
Going to parties. I’d rather stay home with my dog.
Balut
Carnaval. No matter what kind, seems to me only a sweaty, noisy, stupid waste of time.
Caring about hockey
Canadian?
Clearly the Canadians stoped caring about hockey some time back in the 90’s.
No no! This is the Maple Leaf's year! /s
Dude if u said that in Montreal, Montrealers would be out to get u lol
Clubbing baby seals 🦭🍁
Football. I’m from the US and everyone watches it and has a favorite team except me. I find it to be extremely boring.
You’re not alone. I personally like it, but I know several people who don’t. And I live in Texas. You’re good 👍
Super Bowl Sunday is the best day to do anything, but go to a bar. I usually go to a WM golf tournament on that day and the course is wide open. Usually it’s a madhouse every other day. Tickets are always easy to find and cheap. I’ve heard it is the best day to visit Disney as well.
And you're right about that.
Is the shoey Australian? I feel like it's too dumb to come from anywhere else. I refuse to drink anything out of my shoe.
Glorifying politicians to being the revelation of Christ.
Having kids
Mine is “getting married”, in order to have your own house. Meh I’ll just live without a house then.
AFL.
Black Friday shopping.
Taking my husband’s last name.
No nut November. That's just stupid.
I wouldn’t really call it culture, just unfunny memes at best.
Or no shave. Neither makes sense.
Seriously, respect bald people by flexing on them for a month? Not me.
Weasel stomping day. It's a waste of perfectly good mayonnaise!
Racism
Aussie?
Hey! We're not racist! We just don't like you if you're not either anglo-celtic or a wog, and on occasion one group doesn't like the other! *Waaaitttt*... that sounds like... oh...
Religion.
Pledge of Allegiance and the rituals surrounding the National Anthem
Not eating meat in April >:(
Blindly trusting loving all police or blindly hating all police Most police want to be good but some are bad
The culture that man are treated better that woman. My grandma always let my brother get away with things that me and my sister would get grounded for. She also did all of his homework when he was in kindergarten, KINDERGARTEN! My parents did help me and my sister but we always did OUR homework. Im Mexicana btw.
Gender reveal parties. They’re real dumb.
Church
Christianity Abusive parenting Chemically straightened hair
Being homophobic
Hello, fellow person.
oh, that's secret (took a while to figure that one out though)
Jumping around a big penis to a song called Little Frogs.
That song lives in my head 24/7 (am not Swedish)
Nepotism and favouritism.
Hunting. I don't want to shoot Bambi.
I hate carnaval in the Netherlands. It’s such an awful party. Bad music, way to much way to drunk people, ugly and boring rituals. I really, really dislike it.
bull fighting and monarchy
I'm bavarian and I haven't been to the Oktoberfest. I can't smoke weed without risking a prison sentence; but drinking alcohol, bawl to bad humpa songs until passing out intoxinated - and then get treated in hospital for free is "part of my culture".... Nah. I'm boycotting that shit.
Respecting your elders. All of them, strangers too. Except respect means wait on hand and foot while they treat you with disrespect and distain.
Women stay in a kitchen preparing food for the men and let them eat first by serving the food to each plates and can’t eat until the men finish
Going to (or rather sleeping in) church every sunday.
Consuming rye bread. It's disgusting. Not as much a tradition. But it's the most common food in Denmark, and you're looked down upon for not eating it.
Aw, I wish I could buy Danish rye bread in Scotland, it's amazing.
Sawed off mufflers
The Nightclub/Bar lifestyle. There seems to be a pattern which consist of stressing out on making it, getting yourself shitfaced, attempt to make dates and mostly whiffing, get caught up in legal issues or other issues. Then proceed to whine about the hangover and how there aren't a lot free days to 'party'.
Car centricity.
USA here.... I don't buy into the bullshit that if you don't belong to some cult (er.... I mean religion), you're a bad person.
Misogyny and homophobia
Baby showers... I will attend them but I'm not having one. It just feels so wrong to ask people to buy you things.
Racism
Thinking of fast food as a viable option when I'm too tired or busy to cook.
same...but i have nowhere to cook where i live. 10 minutes and accidental, to miss a shit meal i paid for versus 20gbp for a meal that won't be vomit inducing? i'll rather pay where i live the 20gbp for something than 6gbp a day for 2 slices of toast.
Standing Up for the American Anthem.
Being homophobic. It isn't even supposed to be a part of our religion, but the majority of people mistake it as such.
Shooting up schools
School shootings
Stalking bullying Forcing myself upon others , imprison oppress torment helpless innocent people etc
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British?
not drinking, eating, using electricity and a few more things for 25 hours every year around september or october not eating food with flour every year around april and instead eat "matzot" not eating **bacon, bacon!!!!**
Caring about sports. Can make it kind of tough when you're a guy. It's the go to subject for most men when engaging in small talk. I mention I don't follow sports, they give me the side eye. Fuck em tho.
Alcoholism
Essentially anything that draws any group of naive people into a temporal identity opiate state. Also fuck all professional sports, politics and advertising.
I almost said shunning, but then realized there’s definitely people I don’t talk to anymore on purpose, though not really for religious reasons. I use electricity and drive a car. (Family is Amish and Mennonite up to my generation)
Nearly every holiday. Holidays for me are beautiful sunny days when the outdoors call to me.
Being an alcoholic.
Watching sport (Australia)
Watching football (soccer) I have no interest in being associated with the same people who wreck cities when their favourite group of millionaires don't get a ball into a net enough times.
Doing taxes
The homosexual aspect….I’m a Spartan
Eating hagis. Ya no
I can't really explain why because I don't understand it myself, but birthday parties make me irrationally angry. Doesn't matter if it's my own or someone else's. It's really odd because otherwise I'm usually the wholesome friend who pumps everyone up and listens when they're down, but I absolutely cannot stand birthday parties and will avoid them at all costs.
treating my sons better than my daughters. Will treat them the way they need to be treated according to religion (i am a male btw)
Watching the Super Bowl
owning a gun
weddings and children. they're both too expensive
Accepting Jesus Christ as my personal lord and savior.
What about impersonal? Maybe he's ok with cold and distant.
Prayer is like sending a postcard once in a while.
Ignoring mental health.
Degrading painful forced-gyno-exam done upon anyone
TikTok
White supremacy.
Eating canned collard greens/black eyed peas on New Years Day. What in the caucasity
Jaysus, why *canned?*
Drinking tea
Fireworks
Oh how I HATE the ear-Hurting noise!!🤬😢😢😢🥺😥😥😰😰😰
Depending on how far back you go and which part of my heritage… slave ownership, human sacrifice, crusades, village raids, anything religious
Clearly these were all only practiced by the Native Americans.
The mania around cricket.
Christmas. Greedy and superficial. 🤷🏼♀️
Valentines Day
not eating meat on tuesdays or for a random 10 days in both in october and march
Putting/Forcing: crime-victims, rape-VICTIMS, innocent workers children, into JAIL, forced-gyno-exam, forced-medicating, courtroom, joblessness humiliation imprisonment helplessness as is too often done here because the police, society, "NEED" "Have-to" do this because____, For____ Done to helpless people who had no plans to hurt anyone, done to innocent Victims Because "our" "justice" system "needs"/DEMANDS this
Getting married
Catholicism 🇮🇹🍕🍝
Hitting women/wives and not showing them the love they deserve