#culture exchange

[maddystudyabroaduk]

Ending the Best Semester of my Undergraduate Degree

I ended the semester feeling fulfilled in so many ways, I'd worked so hard to grow academically, socially, and culturally. I'd accomplished such close connections with others in a relatively short amount of time, something younger and more shy me would have never believed I was capable of. I was proud of how well I stood on my own so far from everything I had ever known. It was thanks to the guidance and kindness of many people in both universities that I was able to fulfill the dream of traveling the world.

I found myself excited to go home and tell everyone about my journey, but also already beginning to mourn the change of environment and the loss of being able to spend time with friends I would face. I would miss how on the sunny, warm days everyone would get so excited and lay out picnics all around campus. I would miss how fresh the air smelled and how green nature was. I would miss how warmly I was treated, and how I was privileged enough to learn about the cultures and home countries of so many friends. I would miss the celebrations and city nights with my friends, who became my family along the way. I would miss how walkable and picturesque Leeds was with all its cute malls and cafes.

It was a journey I wished never ended, and the moment I can, I will find my way back to those bustling city streets and warm arms of my friends, who I will always have to thank for showing me a new world and sharing theirs with me. If you ever have the desire to study abroad and meet more of the world, I'd of course encourage it. If you have any questions, please message me and I will help in any way I can. Thank you for listening, and I hope I was able to inspire a few to go find parts of themselves halfway around the world.

[tyiaunia-harris]

Amechu week day 7: Culture exchange of each other's history and what they are most infamous for as well both the good, bad and in between, plus each other's culture shocks.

[sarroora]

My absolute FAVORITE thing about online friendships in addition to all the previously-mentioned is sharing pop culture and slang sentences that are completely acceptable in one culture and horrifying/offensive in the other XXXD

themes commonly found in international friendships

- ‘u dont have (insert food/music/restaurant here) over there??’ - ‘wait what time is it. shouldnt u be asleep’ - alternatively: timezoned/clockblocked again - ‘do u need a hug. have a virtual hug’ - weird slang terms - ‘i will fight everyone thats mean to u. i will fight them rn’ - vague embarrassment regarding ur accent - ‘dont maKE ME COME OVER THERE’ - ‘oh yeah i have a friend who lives in (insert country here) and apparently’ - no real hugs :(( - suffering - fahrenheit vs celsius - the measuring of things in feet fucks one of u up, probably

[ayatheav]

Silesian Miku

[thesmegalodon]

you all need to be my minions i think it’d be wonderful if we made hope posting a trend on tumblr

[kataangiscanon]

HAPPY KATAANG WEEK.

Day 1 - Cultural Exchange/ Culture Sharing/ Revival of Traditions.

[rosethorndragon]

I know someone who claims she and her girlfriend had stumbled onto one of these years ago in the american northwest when they started working in a new area. They loved the food and became regulars and would frequently get drinks on the house. Observations from the story teller:

- people would go up and to a room behind the bar

-not all of them had guns, but the fact that any of them had concealed guns on the Seatle side of the mountains was suspolicious

-the house had Italian accents. Some of the special guests with guns had Russian or Japanese accents

Being a fan of mafia related media, she realizes she is in the local Italian mob "hq". After attempting to share this information to her drunk girlfriend one night to her girlfriend disbelief (and continued insistence to dine there), (If I remember this right) she stops being charged her food at all. With the presumed Italian mobsters nodding and doing 🍻.

Some time later, they are in later than usual after some sort of event, and both women are tired and hungry but not drunk. They are the only guests in the restaurant when they move tables around to accommodate a large party. The party makes up some of the people that are presumed Russian mob and Japanese Yakuza. The Italians proclaim the two women eating are cool and start the business meeting. The girlfriend isn't drunk for once, so she is catching all of the clues now and has to be muffled when the bodyguards start posturing with hands on their guns as the higher ups (bosses?) Start arguing heatedly.

No one gets shot and everyone finishes eating and leaves. As the story teller and her girlfriend get ready to leave, the Italian restaurant manager apologizes for their friends' rudeness, comps their meal, and tells her if she comes in without her girlfriend who seems to either be too spooked or too drunk most nights, she is welcome to go to the back room to play some poker with the vips if she wants.

I don't remember if she said she investigated the gambling den out of curiosity or not, but the moral of her story is if you find the best Italian food ever and it is in the part of town either dominated by warehouses or other transportation/shipping hubs and armed shady people wander in and out; you likely found the Official™️ mafia hang out.

Thank you for proving her right. I actually have a true an accurate observation checklist!

Wait wait you can't just drop that off and not elaborate. What do you mean is there a mafia presence in Wales?? Please spill, what things did you notice??

Okay so bearing in mind that I have ADHD and Chronic Terrible Observational Skills:

I am in Cardiff

For a concert I am attending solo

Doors open at 5

4:15 ish I go 'hmm I should eat something'

Cardiff is - unsurprisingly, being tiny and yet home to FOUR concert venues - Very Busy

Find McDonald's

McDonald's is very full. I recall my last concert related McDick's experience, and promptly bounce

Directly across the street

Is an Italian restaurant

It looks closed but fuckit maybe I can beg for like. Bread or some shit

Go over

Am immediately pounced upon by the hitherto unnoticed chain-smoking woman hanging out by the door mostly hidden by a potted ficus(?)

"I was wondering if you were open and if-" "yes yes we are open what would you like?" (strongish Italian accent)

Inside restaurant is Deserted

Explain that I'm sort of in a rush, am assured it's fine

Order chicken milanese which is generally a pasta dish with a breaded chicken component

Am led to seat nearish the front and promptly provided with a pint of coke in a glass tankard

Am then provided with a front row seat to an absolutely incomprehensible series of people entering and exiting (and in one case walking directly into) the door to what I can only presume is the kitchen

Starting with the guy who had been sitting at a table chain-smoking over a pile of papers

I counted at least three people exiting at least twice without actually entering in between

Am finally brought food

It is a breaded, butterflied chicken breast approximately the size of my face and a small pile of pasta approximately the size of my fist

It is all delicious

Chain-smoking papers man reappears, now wearing a chef's apron labcoat thing

Go up to pay, chain-smoking ficus lady is now having a very loud argument in a language I did not recognise but was not Italian Welsh English French russian Gaelic or Spanish

She sees me, says, and I quote 'ah little girl lost, one moment' and promptly hangs up

I am 27 and only nominally female

I am not remotely lost

She charges me for the pint of coke but not the food

I try to point out that she hasn't charged me for the food

'do you want to pay for the food?'

'.... Not if I don't have to?'

'good'

I leave. The door is now full of half a dozen very tall very Italian men and one absolutely adorable cocker spaniel

I ask if I can pet the dog (I have my priorities straight okay)

I am allowed to pet the dog. The dog and I are now best friends

The dog lead holder asks me in extremely accented but impeccably correct English if I had enjoyed the food

'yeah it was great!'

Everyone laughs a bit

I smile and pet the dog and realise I'm now late for the concert and hurry off

I see a post on Tumblr about mob fronts and several connections are made in my brain all at once

[spellmage]

my Nevarra headcanon is that they love Memento Mori rings

[cuterefaction]

Trektober Day 13 - Baking. TBH I'd like to draw about two dozen different Star Trek characters baking, but since Odo is canonically bamboozled by the concept of stirring he had to take it :) (it's okay, Sisko will help him fix whatever happens)

[proffbon]

How it started:

How it's going:

[bloodpen-to-paper]

My time has come.

So in the US, we have big cultures around how the country is broken up into (most countries do but anyway). The main basic regions you'll hear about is the west/west coast, east/east coast, midwest, and the south. The stereotypes around hicks and farmers comes from our southern population mostly, while people in the north (which isn't really a set region but more just "not the south") are where people associate the big cities being, like Los Angeles and NYC.

[Map for reference]

In Brasil, its the opposite: the norte (notherner) areas are where there's more open land like the Amazon (the "midwest" is where the country folks are), while the sudeste (southerner) regions are where you've got that big city attention like Rio, São Paulo and the capital, and the association with big city development in general.

[Disclaimer: I have no idea if the percentages listed for population on this map are accurate, I just chose this cause it shows the regional divides and big cities]

Lots of countries have this kind of divide and its fascinating to see, so thought I'd share mine. Of course, a lot of what I've stated is stereotypes and both the US South and Norte have big cities and varying cultures, but its interesting to look at the regions in how they're viewed by the world and how they differ.

Qsmp ended but let's keep exchanging culture and language

I think it would be nice if we kept doing it even if we don't have the ccs anymore to be the voices of those exchanges. We could share expressions, untranslatable words or just little words we think are nice. You can also share some culture detail or facts about your country or language.

So, I will start with some of my favorites things in brazilian portuguese.

Untranslatable word

Cafuné - The act of brushing someone's hair tenderly with your fingers.

Anteontem - This one is not very exciting but I found funny that english doesn't have anything similar. It means the day before yesterday.

Expression

While we have a verb that translated to "give birth" (parir), we use "dar à luz" a lot too, the literal translation of this expression is "to give light".

"Amigo da onça" translated to "friend of the jaguar", we use to call someone that fakes to be a friend just to betrayed the person or use them.

Word I just like

Humming birds in portuguese are called beija-flor(flower kisser)

Fun Fact

Although tapioca and cassava are pretty popular in Asia, they are originally brazilian.

One of the most popular foods in a brazilian barbecue is chicken hearts, usually served in a skewer

[quinthetoucan]

y'all please check out my friend alex's book!! its a free online resource for learning māori, the endangered indigenous language of new zealand, and we hope that it can help spread this beautiful language to even more people!

(plus this book is a blast hehe)

[merlyn-bane]

okay but can we talk about how fucking good the food would be in the Jedi Temple?? and all of the absolutely fucking baller and totally unique fusion dishes that would have to exist?? they're by far the most diverse group of beings we see in star wars, with lineages made up of people from all across the galaxy. the best food in that galaxy has got to be something from a lineage dinner table that's been made and modified by generations of Jedi and no-one ever wrote down

[bunbunsheart]

I think we should make our f/o's get familiar with our own culture, yes this is a call for everyone to draw their f/o's in their country's typical clothing, eating their country's typical dishes, learning their country's diallect etc please i wanna see more of this!

[royaltea000]

Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me ;)

[useless-catalanfacts]