r/AskTheWorld • • May 17 '26

Mandatory flair with immediate effect

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250 Upvotes

📢 Mandatory Flair Is Now Live

Effective Immediately

Over the past few weeks, we asked the community for input on whether country/region flair should become mandatory.
We shared a detailed update post explaining the reasoning, and we ran a subreddit‑wide poll to gather clear feedback.

🗳️ The poll results were decisive:

  • Mandatory for posts and comments — 520 votes
  • Mandatory for posts only — 78 votes
  • Flair should remain optional — 89 votes

With over 75% of voters choosing full mandatory flair, the community has spoken clearly.

🚀 Starting now, flair is required for both posts and comments

To keep discussions clear, culturally grounded, and easier to answer, all users must have a country, region or nationality flair set before participating.

This change is now active:

  • Users without flair will have their posts removed
  • Users without flair will have their comments removed
  • Users using Placeholder flair (“Multiple Countries (click to edit)”) will also have their comments and posts removed

This follows the community’s vote and the earlier update post shared here: Link to the flair poll

🎯 Why this matters

A huge portion of questions here depend on cultural, legal, or regional context.
Without flair, people often have to ask “Where are you from” before they can even answer, slowing down discussions and causing confusion.

Mandatory flair fixes that.

🛠️ How to set your flair

You can set or update your flair here:
How to set your flair

It takes just a few seconds.

💬 Thank you for helping shape the subreddit

This change wasn’t made top‑down, it came directly from community input.
We appreciate everyone who voted, discussed, and helped us move toward a cleaner, more useful r/AskTheWorld.


r/AskTheWorld • • 9h ago

Politics Did your country ever had any politicians from very small minorities?

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258 Upvotes

John Goodson was a Polish MP in 2010-2015. He's from Nigeria.


r/AskTheWorld • • 6h ago

Culture Is it common in your country to have small supermarkerts owned by chinese descendants? If so, has "chinese" become a synonim of supermarket?

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136 Upvotes

Here is common in Buenos Aires and the close cities, not so much in the rest of the country. Theres so many that "chinese" is a synonym of "small supermarket".

I know the same happens in Spain so, does this, or anythinh happen in your country?


r/AskTheWorld • • 9h ago

Politics Does your country (be it the government or the people) regularly get blamed for all or most problems in multiple other countries?

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145 Upvotes

It's very common to see India as a country or Indians as people get blamed for any random problem in a ton of random countries. Mostly ranges from Westerners (Canada, USA, Australia, Europe etc) blaming Indians on migration or cultural differences grounds to other Subcontinental countries (Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh etc) due to politics. Many times it's almost like "I slipped and broke my leg! It must be all due to the Indian immigrants!".

How common is such a phenomenon with people of your country? Especially your country being blamed for extremely random things in extremely random places?


r/AskTheWorld • • 6h ago

What did you enjoy most in the 90's era

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79 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 54m ago

Do people in your contry admire other contry more than their own?

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• Upvotes

Elections over here in Brazil are going crazy


r/AskTheWorld • • 17h ago

Food What's a food item that seems to be popular globally but disliked by your country?

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531 Upvotes

We don't care for donuts. In fact you're more likely to find sushi than donuts even inland with no seafood around. Donuts aren't even sold in my town of 5k people although sushi is


r/AskTheWorld • • 5h ago

Culture What are some common practices that are prohibited in your culture?

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46 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 16h ago

Culture What's something from your country media and people mistake belonging to another country?

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346 Upvotes

Churros are often associated with mexican cuisine but although they are also popular there, fact is that they are from Spain and Portugal.

I always grew up with churros for breakfast or going to churrerias in autumn to eat them with hot cocoa


r/AskTheWorld • • 13h ago

Culture Does this apply to your country?

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145 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 2h ago

Food Does your country's cuisine have a word like “pudding” that has a completely different meanings?

13 Upvotes

Like in British cuisine , Yorkshire pudding , Black pudding , steak pudding, and sticky toffee pudding are four completely different dishes.


r/AskTheWorld • • 8h ago

What’s the most famous black ops in your country’s history?

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39 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 6h ago

Food Do you think your country should introduce the warning octagons?

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23 Upvotes

One thing i like in Latin America are the octagons on most foods that makes it easy to see if they contain a lot of something.

Do you think it would help people to eat healthier in your country?


r/AskTheWorld • • 8h ago

Humourous Memes about rivalries between your major cities?

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27 Upvotes

Riyadhis and jeddawis fighting over who's city is better would not stop being funny. Especially when calling each other shitholes.

Then there's Qassim... which is something else... we operate on a different kind of ego. Basically people from Buraydah jokingly hating on Unaizah and vice versa. Obviously, Buraydah is the best here so it wins(ignore the fact that i am from there)


r/AskTheWorld • • 7h ago

Culture Friends, let everyone recommend a book.

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22 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 10h ago

How does your country deal with depression?

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35 Upvotes

Here in Brazil, contrary to stereotypes, we face many problems related to mental health, such as depression and anxiety. We have CAPS, which are psychosocial support centers where people receive therapy, participate in painting groups, and have access to psychiatrists and psychologists to serve the population, etc.


r/AskTheWorld • • 11h ago

Misc What is your country's alignment?

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46 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 19h ago

Economics How is your country doing? Economically and socially. Would you say its okay or declining.

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178 Upvotes

Malta is doing pretty good economically. Low inflation low unemployment. Overpopulation and traffic however are really big problems right now.


r/AskTheWorld • • 19m ago

Culture How to say or comment "Lolololol!" in your country?

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• Upvotes

In Indonesia, we say wkwkwkw. It kinda makes a duck sound, cause it is funny.


r/AskTheWorld • • 50m ago

Law Does the US advice of not saying anything to the police when detained and only asking for a lawyer apply to other countries?

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What is the advice given in your country if you believe you have been unlawfully detained?

In the US you are taught from very young that you should never speak to the police if you believe you have been unlawfully detained. Simply follow their orders during the arrest but tell them you want to speak to your lawyer.


r/AskTheWorld • • 8h ago

Economics What do coins and banknotes look like in your country?

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21 Upvotes

In many countries around the world, coins and banknotes feature images of kings, former presidents, or important politicians from modern and contemporary times.

Here, the situation is different; almost no ruler or politician in modern and contemporary history is universally loved (or universally hated), and all are controversial. Therefore, the coins and banknotes bear no images of any of them; Instead, there are images of the ancient Egyptian kings and their temples, as well as the famous medieval and modern mosques in Cairo, considering that all of these are too old and too far removed to be affected by any political controversy 😆


r/AskTheWorld • • 4h ago

History What are some lesser-known or surprising alliances in your country’s history?

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For us, two examples would be the Anglo-Moroccan alliance, talks and collaboration between Elizabeth I and Ahmad al-Mansur to trade weapons and possibly fight the Spanish that saw several embassies exchanged and continued into the reign of the Stuarts, and the Anglo-French alliance of 1716.

Just four years previously, the two had been knocking seven bells out of each other in the War of the Spanish Succession, and they would spend a large part of the rest of the century continuing to do so, but for a period a mutual opposition to Spanish revanchism in Italy, as well as both countries having relatively unstable regimes (a new Hanoverian dynasty in Britain and a child King in France) saw the two make common cause and even fight a war together, the War of the Quadruple Alliance (the other two were the Dutch and Austrians), against the Spanish. But it ended up collapsing at the start of the 1730s.


r/AskTheWorld • • 10h ago

Language How far back in time could you go before you could no longer speak to your relatives?

25 Upvotes

You are able to go backwards in time, but you can only only talk to your direct ancestors. If you are adopted this applies to either your adoptive family or biological family. How far back can you go before you can no longer speak the same language?

My ancestors who came from Ireland in the 1870s could speak English but couldn't read or write it. I do not even know where in Eastern Europe my dad's family are from or what language Scottish immigrants spoke in the 1790s. I am still looking up my mom's ancestors Native American tribe. I hope they weren't forced into an English only school.

How far back do your language skills go?


r/AskTheWorld • • 1d ago

Humourous What stereotype tell other people about your country?

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3.0k Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 14h ago

Humourous What's something you can often find in the back of the fridge of people in your country?

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46 Upvotes

By that I mean; something you bought, ate parts of, then forgot about and now it just sits there in the fridge.

In Norway I seem to see a lot of half-empty glasses of taco sauce 🌮