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Expose the world to your culture! Anonymous Wed, Jan 29th, 2014 05:57 No. 169701

What are some things you take for granted that everyone in your culture is familiar with, but is unheard of away from home?

Taking American culture for instance, all around the world people know Metallica and Elvis and Eminem and John Wayne and Seinfield and Gilligan's Island and cheeseburgers and cowboys and Monopoly and Frank Sinatra.

But how many non-Americans know about The Andy Griffith Show, those television donation drives for public television, how liquour is sold in grocery stores (or if you're in the South, at drive-through liquour stores), Smarties being little sugary fruit flavoured candies with no chocolate, Captain Crunch cereal, Yankee Doodle, Mary Had a Little Lamb (the American version is different to the British version), Johnny Bravo, CatDog, Fels Naptha soap, that people from Massachusetts are terrible drivers who go ridiculously fast and Vermont is the Land of Icecream, and yet pretty near everybody recognises when someone's whistling the Andy Griffith theme song.

Same with Japanese culture, everyone knows about Naruto and miso soup and bowing and samurai and sitting on the floor, but sorts of stuff do Japanese people take for granted that's general knowledge there but nowhere else? Children's songs and games, old sitcoms and singers, common foods that aren't exotic enough to be known far away but they don't make elsewhere, popular candy brands, those sorts of things. What reminds Swedish people of home? Thai? Polish? Phillipino? Brazilian people?

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>>	Fan of the Great Old Ones Wed, Jan 29th, 2014 06:04 No. 169702 Samurai saus and saus andalouse. It is spiced mayonaise available in the borderlands of the nederlands, belgique and germany. Took it for granted, missing it now. Reply • Report

My Little Life on Mars (A Pony General relic)!sU.shK16Bo Wed, Jan 29th, 2014 06:15 No. 169703
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Okay, Norway. Let's see what we've got here that nopony else has got...

A brand named Toro, which deals with tenfolds of soups and stews in powder form, is a very vital part of living here. Folk-country-rock-pop in various variations is much more popular than our famed black metal community. Old British dramas like Heartbeat are still found on telly. The Norwegian cuisine is exhaustive, and you can still find sourcream porridge, lobscouse, frikadelle-style meatcakes and fårikål on ordinary dinner tables. Advent calendar programmes every Christmas (Jul i Blåfjell, Jul i Skomakergata, Julekongen) are serious business.

That's about all I could come up with.

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Daxn Sat, Feb 1st, 2014 08:32 No. 169725

Let me see... Italy.

Pop music isn't really liked, you are more likely to hear songs by author-singers like Francesco Guccini, Fabrizio de Andrè and the like. The younger people tend to like national rap, however.

Pasta is basically a must at dinner and launch, however, it's not uncommon to see rice-based dishes like arancini (balls of fried rice). Also, in Friday, most of the times the meat is replaced by fish. Also, words cannot express how much I love the brasato, a roast cooked in wine and herbs.

Leone Candies are considered something that only the hipsters or nostalgic, since they are the only italian brand of sweets that never changed its formula and variety of tastes. Perugina produces chocolate and the (in)famous "Baci."
Notable the fact that, depending on your zone of Italy, the brand of pasta also changes: Voiello and De Cecco are common in Central Italy, in Southern Italy Paoloni is incredibly common, and, in Northen Italy, Barilla and Garofano is a common sight.

The television has long lost its status of "Language Teacher" and now it's chocke full of sitcoms like RIS and Un Medico in Famiglia by the RAI. Foreigner sitcoms are a rarity on national television. Also, the Mass is always on all the channels during Sunday morning.

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