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No joke here. I just think stuff like this is interesting.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think this entire "the Americans" and "the Germans" and "the Japanese" thing in this post is probably super productive and leads us somewhere useful!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It's really broad strokes and focused on a snapshot of one element of the contemporary culture of those places. I think there's nothing wrong with acknowledging these differences, no more than acknowledging that different cultures celebrate holidays differently.