For the simple one, eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner without rice, that's a shock for me, I will never get full without it, even if I could, I would fell something had lost and have this certain not satisfied feeling. Ramen/noodles is an exception, but too much is not good for your health, so rice is a MUST for me!
Well. There is Sambia tribe where the boys need to have sex with older male and swallow their sperm for the coming age ceremony. Weird enough i guess.
I'll let you know I identify as an Apache Attack helicopter and I'm seriously offended by thinking I identify as such just to troll.
People pronounce milk as malk. The fact many americans think (american) football is a more demanding and tougher than rugby. Many others too but those are the first two that come to mind.
Sorry, but what I find more shocking is that some small tribes bury people alive. Like if the husband dies before the wife, she will be buried together with him. They even put the coffin on top of her so she can't struggle or escape.
Culture shock... After getting accepted into the college i am in right now, i went to fill the identification form that needs to be filled a few days before the first semester starts... And it had 'marital status' as one of its fields... I was like... "what the fuck?! Why?!" And then i remember that the state i will be living in for the rest of my college life has a high child marriage rate... I still can't stomach these things... P. S. I did check with a friend of mine studying in the same college but different state... And they didn't have a field like that in their form...
I belong to one of the countries where that culture is practiced, and I can't wrap my head around it. I do understand that some people have (for whatever reason) a cerebral wiring that's more reminiscent of the people of the oppossite sex, but a lot of the newer and stranger genders, from my POV, fall either inside gender stereotyping (e.g. people who like embroidery and beer use that liking to say they are both, or neither, when it doesn't work like that) or just lunacy (once again, remember I said a lot, not "all" or "most"). Basically fashion meets pervasive gender stereotyping and discrimination.
As an American i can confirm this over here..... In fact it's so bad in certain states you can be sued it you call a person by the gender they look like instead of the gender they identify by.................
practical? if you mean practice, for me... I experienced it moving to Canada. They used profanity a lot compared to the place where I grew up where we actually don't use any at all. They also eat a lot in canada, I mean buffets everywhere.... which I never had before migrating.
trust me, very few people believe that. just its been blown up by various famous people who think their opinions matter.