We’re going broad with this one given the population and the size.
My hot take: saving face and thinking that winning by cheating is the same as winning are toxic culture traits
Flash-news.
Plastic is not biodegradable.
China: Stop trying to make the mandate of heaven happen. It’s not going to happen.
Japan: If you’re worried about population decline, maybe you should be less shitty to foreigners who want to live there.
Korea: Your music industry is uncomfortably close to slavery. And despite America’s best efforts, you still have the closest thing to a government owned by corporations.
Southeast Asia in general: I am sorry you are stuck being the Middle East of the Far East.
BREAD DOESN’T NEED TO BE SWEET. Please. Especially not cheese toast.
I want sweet bread, what is it called 🥺
Cake
Improving your driving license quality would save so much money by reducing worker deaths.
You work too much. Your work quality suffers because of it. Studies have shown the optimum amount of time to do serious mental work in a day is less than half of how much you all work since childhood cram schools.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/10/surprising-benefits-four-day-week/
I have never met someone raised outside of Asia that has ordered a glass of hot water to drink as-is. I have no idea why this habit is so wide spread among people raised in Asia and it baffles me.
Hold on for some Jared Diamond-ass reasoning.
Before sanitation rules, very broadly: Europe made alcohol to make potable water whereas Asia boiled it and made tea. When there’s no tea available or fitting your tastes, the water still needs to be purified, so drinking hot water was still a common practice which has stayed around as an aspect of culture.
