Cultural Thread V1: "Around the world Around the WORRRLD!"
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Californian American here. Obviously this land is full of hippies and immigrants from all over, but the Asian food is so delicious that no one minds it. Same-sex marriage is still up for grabs, though. Family came over primarily from Northern Ireland (although originally from Scotland) in the 19th Century, and our tea consumption is still going strong.
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Oh and also there's a lot of Mexican food. Very spicy, very diarrhea-esque, but still pretty good.
I live in Luxembourg, it's pretty tiny and people speak luxembourgish, french, german, portuguese and all kinds of stuff. If you want to live here you have to get used to the different languages.
Our country has only one major city, which is really hilarious. Also the north is only consisted by forests, hills and grass. The South is industrialized and the center of commerce, where most people live.
I live in Sweden. We have IKEA, hot girls and moose. Lots of moose.
[QUOTE=junker|154;39909626]I live in Luxembourg, it's pretty tiny and people speak luxembourgish, french, german, portuguese and all kinds of stuff. If you want to live here you have to get used to the different languages.
Our country has only one major city, which is really hilarious. Also the north is only consisted by forests, hills and grass. The South is industrialized and the center of commerce, where most people live.[/QUOTE]
You are also a Tax Haven for the companies of the UK.
I live in middlesbrough, where people shout OWAY THEN M8 and flail their arms around like a chicken trying to fly. I think this is due to people thinking this is intimidating. Every home has been burgled at least once and the school system is terrible. The only good thing is the scum are segregated into packs called council estates. It is also very rare that you can discover decent people in the council estates if you venture far enough. Most of them live off benefits and shoot heroin hourly while singing the national anthem, before appearing on Jeremy Kyle as a guest to be ridiculed by higher classes as-well as their own.
The higher class are stuck up and complain about taxes too much and spill Henri Jayer Richebourg Grand Cru on their shirts outside a shop on bond street, before spiralling into depression and taking cocaine. They then return to their day jobs as bankers and ask for more bonuses for their cocaine addiction and pull their hair out if you want to take money from your bank account and say they don't have any money.
I come from New Zealand.
We have pretty good weed, average looking women, and Maoris.
Nice views too.
Also the girls in Luxembourg that live in the south have bigger breasts than those in the northern areas. :v:
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guess which country i come from
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Greece! Wait, no...The Vatican! Damn it, that's not right either...
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Brooklyn
I am English and I have come to kill you all.
I'm Canadian ok stop fighting, this is a fight free zone
Have a beer from Germany.
I am a african american from Los Angeles, basically we have gangs.
I'm from brazil. We speak spanish, live inside jungles and have monkeys as pets.
also huehuehue brbr
Hi, I'm Portuguese, for those who don't know where Portugal is - Specially Activision, Call of Duty Franchise and North Americans - it's in Brazil. Hence the language - Portuguese.
For those who know, We're a country of calm traditions located on the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula.
In a short summary Portugal has the best cuisine in the world (This is not up to discussion or I will murder you at night) and people are very proud of their cuisine.
We are known for dumb incompetent crooked politicians and a general population that is dumb as fucking bricks and keeps voting the same people who destroyed the country for God knows what reason.
In Portugal, if you belong to the unions or the communist parties and like to appear a lot on television spitting some good old politic bullshit, fakely appealing to better conditions to all while in fact present no results you'll be seen as a deity among men.
Yet, if you're a middle class citizen who actively volunteers on society or in the food bank or a company owner who creates employment, and you have the sad idea of expressing your clever opinion on the air, you'll unleash a shitstorm and will probably be branded as a dirty imperialist pig.
We are also keen on, during an economic crisis caused by us and by our conformity to ruinous policies, blaming the IMF and Troika (who are paying our state workers their salaries) for being so miserable. Just like a sheep blaming the Wolf for lack of pasture we thrive on blaming everything for our misfortune just like a machine gun shooting at a target and missing every bullet.
To sum up, at the end of this we happily sell our souls to the Devil during the next election voting again on the same people responsible for our countries mess.
However, apart from the general idiocy Portuguese people seem to share among each other in matters of politics, our people is obsessed with soccer and shitty folkloric humor, the more basic and gross, the better. If somehow someone thinks about doing great humor talk shows like the Conan O'brien show, that show is bound to shut down in months, because someone from the audience may find it inappropriate, and will most likely start a shitstorm on facebook that will most likely be enhanced by the media.
We also like to do marketing about how cool it is to launch a company or a business in Portugal. In fact it's quite easy to do so since you can do this online. However having a company isn't the same as having it running so, thanks to bureaucracy you'll most likely have to wait for 10 years until someone remembers to give you a licence to move your companie's fridge from one room to another (if your lucky). This actually happens, so if you're planning of opening a company in Portugal, you have been warned because you might be into bankruptcy before you even started.
And at this point you might think that I'm a huge pessimist or that Portugal has really turned into a political hellhole like everywhere in Europe due to it's lack of charismatic politicians and role models.
Well, not everything is bad in Portugal.
It's a great pleasure to live here as a country. I am proud to say that I wouldn't swap this climate and our landscapes for anything else, the beaches, the Sun during the summer, our craftsmanship and our spirit of getting things done McGivver style when a German worker's having a brain meltdown because he's project is missing a screw here and there. (no offence to Germans).
In sum we are a country of tradition marked by a socialist revolution which set us free from a fascist regime 50 years ago and after all these years old habits still die hard. (And I hope they die fast when they do).
Although vanity and envy is still encrusted among some Portuguese people from one to another, we are, in general a tolerant and welcoming people, surprisingly open to other cultures without letting our own die in the meantime.
Although, among Latins we are the most introverted kind, a time well spent among Portuguese people will make you leave with a warm heart, a full stomach and a little more culturally enriched.
[QUOTE=cam64DD;39925171]I'm from brazil. We speak spanish, live inside jungles and have monkeys as pets.
also huehuehue brbr[/QUOTE]
It's true. I've been in Brazil twice.
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The festival of food and low rent amusement rides. It travels the country year round.[/QUOTE]
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Spain is almost the same, but with more corruption and general lazyness. You can vote PP, or you can vote PSOE, but it won't mind since nobody will give a fuck about people and they will just tell each other they are doing everything wrong and they did better when they were ruling, or mention the different cases of corruption in both parties.
And there are parts of the country that want independence (I don't mind them leaving, it would be better for them, but they are having it hard).
I wish we talked as quiet as you do. I loved how quiet everything was but still could hear Portuguese people talk perfectly, meanwhile my family and our friends were shouting around the street like if we were attending a concert.
Haha, yeah I remember being in Algarve with my family and I was relaxing near the pool while all of a sudden I hear a Spanish family coming from miles away.
I've only been in Madrid. Very beautiful city. Full of transvestites, porn magazines showing girls with huge tits in front of the Kiosks.
I loved how nobody understood a thing about either Portuguese or English, yet I could undertand most words, but still when I tried to speak in Spaniguese nobody would understand.
I spent like two hours trying to figure out how to get the right bus to the airport because nobody would know how to give me the right direction.
However, I loved how colorful people are. I went there to see a Heavy Metal festival with the last performance of Judas priest with Saxon and Motorhead and people were so friendly and alive.
I couldn't understand a thing of what people were telling me but the minute I got inside the La Cubierta I had like a huge group of Spanish people speaking to me, asking me things about Portugal and so on. I wish our people were as open as you are among countrymen.
I think there's going to be another concert with Manilla Road in Madrid this year. I'll probably be there again.
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Uganda?
I'm from Pakistan
I get shot at alot.
As Canadian's we look down on the Americans, those fools split off from the Empire... Damn Barbarians.
I live in Minnesota, here is a summary of Minnesotan culture in 3 videos
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I'm from Oregon. We speak English, look down on Canadians, hate Washington and nothing ever happens here.
It also rains all the time.
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and football is our religion
I am an obersilesian Pole with German roots. And I live in Germany.
We've got godlike beer (All thanks to Reinheitsgebot) and gigantic pretzels.
But if you'll see a beautiful lady in Germany, then listen: She will NOT be German. Our ladies are either ugly or fat as fuck.
