• meyotch@slrpnk.net
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    17 days ago

    It’s just a US American thing. It is a question less frequently asked when traveling abroad. Many Europeans and South Americans have mentioned it to me over the years as a reliable way to ‘spot the American’.

    Our culture is broken and we are widely considered to be gauche and rude by others in the world.

    • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl
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      16 days ago

      In The Netherlands this is pretry common as well, heck in even abroad I have been asked the question