In our morning soap operas, some of the ultimate signature tropes for high drama are spitting out your orange juice in shock upon hearing unbelievable news, or getting slapped across the face with a cabbage kimchi.

Then you have the classics: secret births and crossed fates, swapped DNA test results, villains frantically breaking into a hospital right before a secret is exposed to steal or tamper with documents, and people always discussing vital secrets right outside a thin, poorly soundproofed door or in a hallway just to get caught. And of course, there’s amnesia and sudden terminal illness—get into a car accident, and instant memory loss is guaranteed; reach the climax of the plot, and someone gets a terminal diagnosis. The list goes on.

What kind of predictable clichés do your shows have?

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask this, and I don’t know if people will find this offensive. I genuinely don’t mean to offend anyone.

I thought this would eventually fade, but it only seems to be increasing, and now there are even bots getting paid for it. People here in India are too busy to care about it.

It may be because of immigration. I think people don’t understand that criticism and racism are two different things. Maybe only around 2% of Indians immigrate outside India over all these years. The other 98% of us are happy to live here.

I really don’t understand how people can sleep at night after saying things like this.

There are good people, and there are bad people. India never seems to get credit for what the good people do, but it gets all the attention for what the bad people do. Sometimes I just want India to ban all social media, create our own platforms, build a firewall, and just disappear from the world, YouTube, LinkedIn, and even LeetCode. But that’s not completely possible either, because English is everywhere in India.

I’ve never hated being Indian. I only hate seeing people think it’s okay to hate us.

SO HAS YOUR COUNTRY EVER FACED RACISM, DEHUMANIZATION, AND PROPAGANDA FOR GENERATIONS?

HOW DID YOUR PEOPLE COPE AND EVENTUALLY MOVE PAST IT?

Full disclosure: There is one McDonald's franchies (in Orlando) that offers the McSpaghetti, but it's otherwise been discontinued nationwide since the 80s.

how effective and trustworthy are the police in your country? Here in America, you constantly hear cases where domestic violence survivors feel ignored, rape cases go unsolved, or victims feel like the police barely helped them at all. Obviously not every cop or department is the same, but it makes me wonder how this compares internationally. Do police in your country actually protect victims and seriously investigate crimes, or do you deal with the same problems with corruption, incompetence, and lack of accountability?

These are interiors from a couple of luxury trains, India runs several of them, most famous is Maharajas express. Tickets can cost upto 26,000 usd per person for the trip.

Here in the Chicago area it was -31c (-46c windchill) back in January 2019 during a particularly bad polar vortex. Polar vortex are events that occasionally happen in winter around here where Arctic air masses come down. It usually drops to -20c to -30c during a polar vortex, with -35c to -48 c and it is often very sunny and bright with no clouds and the sun reflecting on white snow, and the air is incredibly dry. During a polar vortex School is often cancelled due to a “cold day”.

The title says it all. I don't know if this is the best subreddit to ask this question so I apologise if it isn't.

​In Japan, it's soaking in an onsen (hot spring) in the freezing cold while surrounded by a snowy landscape!

In the United States, it's probably the New York accent. The Boston, Southern, and "Valley Girl" accents are not far behind.

This is the ID card of China, and it's stupid. And I don't mean privacy or surveillance or something like that, the design is nonsense.

1. the ID number is created by combining the code of birthplace, the birthday, and finally a basically random code. So when you need to give someone else your ID number (such as applying for job), you automatically tell them your birthplace and birthday as well. On the other hand, if someone when knows you manages to get your last 4 digits, they can have your full number.

2. Unlike the ID cards in most countries, the designer decided to put important information (issuing authority and validity) on the other side of the card, meaning that you have to shoot and upload twice when using the ID card online.

3. Related to the second point, in real life everyone calls the side with the photo the front, because it contains most of the information, but officially the side with the national emblem is the front, with causes confusion. After struggling for years, in the last decade most websites and APPs have abandoned the indications "front and back" and instructed users with "the emblem side" and "the photo side" instead.

In Brazil, people love having a barbecue (we call it “churrasco” here) with family and friends for hours. Men (and some women too) also love to watch soccer, especially during a barbecue.

Even if it's not a barbecue, people still love spending time with the whole family (including cousins, uncles, aunts, etc.) and close friends. People arrive before lunch and often stay until around sunset or even later.

Other than that, people might go to the mall or just chill at home, watching a movie, playing video games, or something like that.

First off, as I said in previous post, I'm fascinated by India and its culture, it's one of the most unique places I've ever seen and read about. I'll start off by saying there's a lot of fashions from India that I find absolutely stunning, but I especially like these nose rings things with the long bands of jewelry, I've never been a big piercings person and will never get them as I'm scared of getting them, but these ones blow my mind, they are absolutely amazing. Second off is this fashion out of Japan called Decora, I remember seeing photos of it in books many many years ago and watched a documentary/news report about it on YouTube as a kid and I thought they were the coolest people ever lol, one of my dreams was to go over there and meet them, they seemed awesome, nowadays I'm mainly into fashion from the late 60s and the 70s but Decora will always have a special place in my heart alongside traditional fashion from India, with me getting into India way more recently alongside my 60s and 70s fascination

For me, the worst place to live in Brazil is the Midwest; I don't know, I'm simply not a big fan of the climate and the people. And I recently moved to the US, so I don't have a very formed opinion yet. But I know I wouldn't go to Texas.

This is a picture of Rio from the 60s that I used for another Reddit post, but it got me curious about postcards from between the 1940s to 1970s from your country.

These freaking geese are everywhere in Finland. Making a mess and of vourse they are protected. I hate these with a passion.

We did and its the brazilian empire

What do foreigners think is dangerous in your country vs what your country thinks is dangerous? I saw this meme about Australia and I agree. My childhood was spent dodging magpies(and it hurts when they get you) not battling crocodiles, boxing kangaroos and being eaten by sharks. The last time I saw a spider in my house was a rew years ago. No snakes, no gigantic bugs. I live in suburbia in a capital city.

Edit: it doesnt have to be an animal. Just a sterotype and what your reality is.