cultural differences

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (381953) • Rockingham, Australia 3 Mar 20

Have you seen squat toilets? Maybe you’ve used them. Maybe they have been part of life to you and it’s Western toilets that seem different, although I've seen squat toilets in France too. Individual cultures have a lot of...

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Short Story: Alf's culture shock experience, was mind-numbing for him to endure

emptychair @innertalks (23736) • Australia 28 Nov 19

Alf Fraklin was married to an Asian lady, whose background ensured that her cultural way of thinking was way different than what Alf’s was. Clarasil, Alf’s wife, had a distant cousin, from her own country of...

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Iddle talk sometimes means fun.

marguicha @marguicha (230351) • Chile 12 Sep 19

Many of you know that in one more week Coral (@TheSojourner) and I will spend a week in Aruba. We have never met each other face to face, but we feel that we know a lot of each other by reading each other´s posts and writing...

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Location of Mylotters

Linda Mansfield (Snowdrop) @sprite1950 (30461) • Corsham, England 26 Mar 18

I like to know where Mylotters come from, I find it really interesting so I always check out a person's location as I love to hear about cultural and language differences. Take the USA for instance, although we speak the same...

mylotters

location

cultural differences

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Apparently I'm a "Gentleman"

StacyB @Srbageldog (7716) • United States 14 Feb 18

Earlier my sister and I went to the library, and as we were going in the building a man was on his way out, so I held the door for him. His response was "It's okay ma'am, thank you I've got it ma'am. Thank you for being a...

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Do you eat with your mouth open?

The Invisible Man @TheInvisibleMan (17594) 8 Nov 17

Today I saw a situation that made me think about cultural differences. At the mal, I saw a couple eating with their mouths open. I couldn't identify their nationality, but it made me think how different we are. Why would they be...

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How do you write the number ‘1’?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381953) • Rockingham, Australia 3 Jul 17

When we came to the continent in 2015 I couldn’t work out a symbol I used to see often on price tickets. It turns out it was the number ‘1’. I’ve seen it again this year but it hasn’t taken me quite so long to work out just what...

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Tell me something you will get sick and tired of in your city ?

wildlittlefan @wildlittlefan (4680) • Hong Kong 4 Nov 16

I think almost all the people of Hong Kong are sick of seeing so many people from Mainland China who comes to Hong Kong and act like their own home. They are so self-centered and talk very loud in the public area. They always act...

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Too stuck in their culture...

DJ @Daljinder (23193) • Bangalore, India 10 Jun 16

... to ever open their eyes to understand other cultures. Then they say and believe to belong to an "open-minded", "evolved", "advanced" and “modern” culture or background or country. The main point of writing the post about...

cultural prejudice

cultural ignorance

cultural differences

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Gifts and cultural differences

Porcospino @Porcospino (31365) • Denmark 1 Feb 16

In Denmark we usually open gifts in front of the giver. When we receive gifts we open them immediately, and in my country people would find it a little strange or impolite if we didn't open the gifts right away. I used to be a...

gifts

culture

cultural differences

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Gifts for the Guests

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381953) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Nov 15

Is it the custom in your country or culture to give small gifts to the wedding guests at a wedding? This was unknown when my friends and I were all getting married. I think perhaps the Italians in Australia were the first to give...

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What foreign traditions or customs shocked you?

joizee @joizee (500) • Philippines 26 Apr 13

When we visit another country, we prepare everything. From money, clothes, itinerary, and even languages. We practice to know some useful words in asking directions, prices or asking discounts and greeting/salutations. And we...

cultural differences

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Good looks turned out to be a disadvantage

joizee @joizee (500) • Philippines 26 Apr 13

Hi! Have you heard of the latest buzz in Facebook? It is about one of the three men who looked handsome, well he's ridiculously handsome for my eyes, was rejected to enter Saudi Arabia because (I quote) "they are too handsome and...

cultural differences

discrimination

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How would you behave in a foreign land when things doesn't work in your favor?

rmacalalad68 @rmacalalad68 (97) 18 Nov 12

MyLot is composed of people from all walks of life from around the globe with different cultures. This is exactly the reason why it is a good venue to express your thoughts and share your life experiences to gather responses that...

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Cultural differences in the work place, notice those?

bounce58 @bounce58 (17380) • Canada 18 Sep 12

I’ve had the chance to work in Asia and here in North America. And I’m always amazed at the cultural differences in the workplace. Whereas the boss was the ‘almighty supreme being’ ([i]at least in my...

boss

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Spices used in INDIA

Kowgirl @Kowgirl (3489) • United States 27 Jul 12

I would like to know what spice they use in INDIA that has a bad odor that lingers on the clothing, in the hair and in their homes. I have a neighbor who either smokes bad "pot" or cooks with this spice and it causes me and...

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Cultural differences showing up through food...

freedomg @freedomg (1684) • United States 19 Nov 11

Living in Florida I have found myself encountering people from soooo many different cultures and honestly we are all very a like in many ways. One thing that has stood out though is the food, which in my book is a bonus...

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Making real friends

rawar31 @rawar31 (112) • Saint Vincent And The Grenadines 26 Aug 11

I believe in friendship. I take it very seriously- so I dont have a whole heap( or alot) of friends. I try to chose friends very wisely so now that I'm living in a spanish country( and I'm english) I find it hard to make friends...

choosing

cultural differences

friendship

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Bleah

TheRealDawn @dawnald (85137) • Shingle Springs, California 22 Jun 11

I remember a trip to Lake Tahoe where the MIL made sandwiches for us even though we were planning on eating out. Well we were sitting by a lake, not feeling like getting up and finding a place, kids got hungry, we ended up eating...

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Would you fight the world just to be with someone?

silvercoin @silvercoin (2101) • Lithuania 10 Jun 11

I thought it was a right thing to do, but now I don't think so.My niece left her house, parents, university and she even converted to other religion just to be with "love of her life".After five years of marriage this man is...

blind love

cultural differences

love

unsuccessful marriage

wrong choice

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