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This Is What Americans Will Look Like By 2050
It is projected that by the year 2050 the people who make up our American melting pot will reach an ultimate level of mixed ethnic heritage, resulting in the minority truly becoming anyone who is of one racial background.
National Geographic decided to explore the look of the “average American” with a little help from photographer Martin Schoeller and a bit of digital manipulation, creating a series of portraits that show what these future Americans will look like.
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What Not To Do In 13 Countries
Japan
Don’t tip anyone: “Tipping is just not part of the culture. Don’t even leave the small change. People will come running after you with it.”
Don’t wear your shoes in someone’s house: “If you see other people taking their shoes off, do the same. (Note: there’s a small area right inside the entrance called a ‘genkan’ which is usually one level below the rest of the house, where you take off your shoes. You don’t take them off outside the house!)”
Don’t hug people you just met: “Most people don’t like it, especially older folk.”
Don’t stand on the wrong side of the escalator: “In Tokyo you stand on the left. In Osaka you stand on the right. Follow what other people are doing.”
How Does A Neckbeard Become A Neckbeard?
Neckbeardism exists in the frission between being a social outcast, and a desire to fit in or belong to something. Tribalism and the desire for social acceptance are strong urges. Being alone for long stretches of time tends to lead to mental health issues.
So, you have these kids who perhaps don’t have a good relationship with their families. Maybe they came from broken homes, or came from families where they were somewhat ignored. They grew up shy, or otherwise isolated.
22 Things Foreigners Find Weird About America
1. Wearing shoes in the house… What the fuck are you doing? You step in all nasty shit, for example, if you stepped on a fruit then walked all over your living room then thats how you get ants.
2. Advertising prescription drugs. That was the weirdest one for me. “ask your doctor for brand x antidepressants” type commercials on TV. In the UK, your doctor tells you what drugs you should take, not the other way round.
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25 Things Foreigners Admire About Americans
1. My partner’s American and whenever we travel to the States I’m always struck by how ridiculously friendly everyone is. I’ve had long conversations with people I’ve only just met who are just genuinely interested in what life is like in other countries/how I’m finding America etc. And people tend to be very giving of themselves as well. In Britain the standard response to ‘How are you?’ is ‘Fine/great’ whatever, whereas American’s can give you a complete breakdown of their life at the momen. It’s nice though.
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Japan’s Fantasy Fetish Clubs
The world of fuzoku or pink (commercial sex) is Japan’s second largest industry, raking in over 10 trillion yen ($85 billion) a year. For a fee, men can live out their fantasies in elaborate sets including no-panty coffee shops (with mirrored floors!), mock subway cars crowded with schoolgirls, and harem-themed bath houses. Japan’s sex workers and intricate fantasy rooms have been largely hidden from the rest of the world—until now. Joan Sinclair, a lawyer from San Francisco and an unlikely candidate to document this underground sex industry, is the first journalist to expose what really lies within Japan’s exotic clubs.
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What Is Dating Like In China
(photo: @henniestander)
Like most Asian nations, China has a traditional bias for sons. Many families abort female fetuses and abandon baby girls to ensure their one child is a son, so about 118 boys are born for every 100 girls, against a global average of 103 to 107.
Out of China’s population of 1.4 billion, there are nearly 34 million more males than females – more than the entire population of Malaysia – who will never find wives and only rarely have sex.
Everything You Wanted To Know About The Japanese Ritual Suicide Known As Seppuku
What is Seppuku?
Seppuku is a ritualized and institutionalized form of suicide among the Samurai in Feudal Japan, performed by plunging a sword into your stomach and disemboweling yourself.
It was fundamentally an “honorable” way to commit suicide when you would otherwise be killed, not some random act done based on minor embarrassment.
Samurai would do it rather than be captured by a hostile force or after being convicted of very serious crimes. Sometimes it would be a requirement for a peace treaty and basically replaced killing the leader of the losing faction.
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Why Is Office Bullying So Common In Japan?
Being a newbie and the only foreigner (who has a “Japanese face” and can speak Japanese though) in a very traditional Japanese company, my first 3months in the office was a nightmare.
I had a senior as my trainer. He was teaching me literally “everything from very beginning” including how to answer a phone with smile and nodding, how to fold an A3 paper into A4, how to write a mail to other departments or clients, how to make a report by Excel, the font, the border style, the wording… everything.
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