EPT- Brazil has the largest population of japanese people outside of Japan.
- The largest city in Brazil (São Paulo) is the town with the second biggest japanese population in the whole world. Losing only to Tokyo! There's literally hundreds of japanese restaurants or fast food joints there.
- Brazil is world famous for having lots of monkeys. But every japanese I know who been to Japan. Tells me there were way more monkeys in Japan (they're common in parks inside towns there), while they never seen a monkey in the wild here.
- We don't have unified standard system for clothes sizes here. I envy that americans can shop for clothes online because you can tell what size each thing is before buying. We cannot do this here.
- Even tho we're part of latin america. Most brazilians never seen someone of "latino" ethnicity other than from american TV shows or movies. Many doesn't even know what that is.
- We're one of the largest countries in the world. But there's no large scale natural disaster that occurs anywhere within our borders (tornadoes, earthquakes, volcano, hurricane etc). Only floods derived from bad man-made infrastructure actually kills large amounts of people sometimes.
- Our women are much hotter than the ones in your country
- About half of the jokes people tell around here, are about Portuguese people
- Generally speaking. Brazilian people absolutely love foreigners. If you start speaking with a different accent, everyone is gonna want to talk with you, ask where you're from and try to help you out in some way or another. Unfortunately tho, most brazilians speak no english at all, it's very hard to find your way around here if you only speak english.
- Brazilians are taught aviation was invented by a brazilian called Santos Dumont. Most brazilians never heard of the Wright brothers.
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Brazil3567 Posts
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Bergys
Sweden337 Posts
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FlopTurnReaver
Switzerland1980 Posts
On June 21 2011 06:23 Spekulatius wrote: 5) Our toilets have a little platform so the poop doesn't drop deep into the water which could cause splashing and moist buttocks. Oh my god I so hate those toilets!! Worst thing is some of them even immigrated to us :s | ||
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dbosworld
United States317 Posts
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domovoi
United States1478 Posts
On June 21 2011 06:33 Ayomeer wrote: "the American dollar is the preferred investment vehicle if you're looking for something safe".. I'm not particularly well read on that matter, but in my understanding you're currency is now worth less than half what it used to be worth a couple of years ago - not what i'd call safe. I probably shouldn't have said "American dollar," even though technically true, as that confuses the issue. Read up on US treasuries and compare its interest rates to, for example, Irish and Greek debt (countries which actually are on the verge of bankruptcy). Low interest rates means low probability of default. During the recent recession (and as Greece's problems continue to build up), US treasury yields tended to get lower due to a "flight to safety." E.g.: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/flight-to-safety-again/ Or read the comments here: http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2008/10/why-is-buying-us-treasuries-considered-a-flight-to-security.html | ||
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toadyy
United Kingdom179 Posts
P.S My country is better than your country. | ||
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chroniX
517 Posts
Because of the historical background, Patriotism is not practiced in public. People are looked upon with a strange gaze when doing stuff like waving the national flag or singing the anthem. Theres a trend that Patriotism is more and more commonly accepted now though, since events like the football WC 2006 (when it was standard to express patriotism on the streets) helped the germans to get a feel for it. | ||
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Euronyme
Sweden3804 Posts
On June 21 2011 06:28 domovoi wrote: Hm, yes, I worded that weirdly. I meant that the situation in Libya (with the UK and France leading the way) showed how European countries have a lot more political influence than China. China's pretty much non-existent when it comes to these political affairs. The US still has far greater economic influence than China. I would not say the US "is near bankrupt," which means dangerously close to defaulting on its loans. Greece is near bankrupt. The fact that the US has a high deficit, yet the yields on US treasuries are so low, is simply a testament to its economic influence: the American dollar is the preferred investment vehicle if you're looking for something safe. The Chinese RMB is pegged to the US dollar for a reason. Militarily, China has trouble even exerting influence in its own backyard. In all other respects (politically, culturally, technologically), China is less influential than even individual European countries. Being a superpower has afaik nothing to do with culture. It has either to do with military power (the US), or economical power (China). China in crisis is a dangerous war machine, but atm they seem to be focused on the economical side of things. I can only refer to my last post. I havn't followed the recent troubles in China to be honest, so I can't really say anything about it. It's kind of funny how people are misinformed though. Some guy from New Zealand claiming they invented the airplane which afaik has nothing to do with New Zealand whatsoever ^^ | ||
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domovoi
United States1478 Posts
Being a superpower has afaik nothing to do with culture. It has either to do with military power (the US), or economical power (China). I guess you've never played Civilization?  | ||
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synapse
China13814 Posts
On June 21 2011 03:11 bonifaceviii wrote: We buy milk in plastic bags, which Americans think is the weirdest thing ever. ...yeah, that's about it really. Oh we do that too! Well, I don't actually live in China but yeah ^^ | ||
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Ayomeer
Switzerland48 Posts
China in crisis is a dangerous war machine, but atm they seem to be focused on the economical side of things Sounds like (a droning) Zerg to me | ||
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shell
Portugal2722 Posts
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TadH
Canada1846 Posts
On June 21 2011 03:58 ishboh wrote: I believe basketball was invented in the US as well... Basketball was invented by a Canadian. | ||
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TadH
Canada1846 Posts
On June 21 2011 06:44 Bergys wrote: Jukkasjärvi, the only hotel in the world made of ice. (That I know of anyway). Quebecs Ice-Hotel http://www.icehotel-canada.com/ | ||
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Jayjay54
Germany2296 Posts
On June 21 2011 02:54 FlyingSheeps wrote: Beavers. Canada wins right there | ||
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toadyy
United Kingdom179 Posts
On June 21 2011 03:11 bonifaceviii wrote: We buy milk in plastic bags, which Americans think is the weirdest thing ever. ...yeah, that's about it really. Yea its almost like they dont realise milk is 90% water anyway | ||
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iruel
Canada75 Posts
On June 21 2011 04:37 Retgery wrote: William Shatner, you're welcome Trekkies. + Show Spoiler + - A country were it is legal to arrange a fight between two animals, but is illegal to be on the outcome - Worst internet in the developed world. I recently spent some time in New Zealand and Australia. as bad as our internet is theirs is worse. especially New Zealand, even their Mcdonalds free wifi has a 50MB/day limit. | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
not modern basketball atleast originally basketball is a very lame game where people stand still to shoot not alot of quick movement, jumping and shiz. I've always found American values very optimistic and not realistic, a lot of our rhetoric revolves around people being capable of doing things and that fault is on the individual not so much society, probably stemming from the ideals of the American dream of doing anything if you worked hard enough, even though we openly had and still have racism, always will, a prime example of a society keeping someone down. I've also found the US' continental weather quite amazing that people would settle here i mean we have every kind of natural disaster imaginable in the US and yet we still go on, the least natural disaster prone state to case loss of life is Hawaii and it has molten lava pouring out of it day and night. Which is why we get such colorful characters like Mark Twain and Teddy Roosevelt. Ofc we also have the most serial killers by far then any other country :D But the American spirit is quite something. the beavers from canada are the same as the ones in the US although we don't have as many becuase we killed them earily on becuase beaver pelts make for some bitchin top hats! | ||
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Deja Thoris
South Africa646 Posts
On June 21 2011 06:41 Velr wrote: Swiss: Stable (political enviroment, currency... heck, i think we invited "stableness"). Milk-Chocolate (thats the diffrence to the Belgia) Watches. Oldest Democracy in the World (not oldest "modern" democracy).. Country that wasn't "really" involved in a war the longest. 4 main languages. Banks -.- (Hard)-Cheese. hm.. yeah... Jesus dude, I lived in Switzerland for a year and a half and the country is fantastic. Is trite stuff like watches and chocolate the only stuff you could come up with? The country is fucking georgeous, every place looks better than the postcards. The public transport is out of this world and even your druggies are pretty laid back. Oh, and velcro. | ||
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Imres
515 Posts
Women (really :D) food (you can't even imagine) etc... now more fun ones We like to fuck off our governments <3 We've a great rivalry with the UK (shameless cheaters in sports and war if you're a true french, refuse to fight in a 1on1 :D (it's not my opinion, I can't even have an opinion of people who don't know what cooking means :D) The territory, really cool with seas and mountains The dumbest people ever in the south A cool way of life <3 So many words for lazy | ||
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