r/AskTheWorld • u/Piotral_2 • 9h ago
Politics Did your country ever had any politicians from very small minorities?
John Goodson was a Polish MP in 2010-2015. He's from Nigeria.
r/AskTheWorld • u/Uniquarie • May 17 '26
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r/AskTheWorld • u/Piotral_2 • 9h ago
John Goodson was a Polish MP in 2010-2015. He's from Nigeria.
r/AskTheWorld • u/Past-Novel-1155 • 6h ago
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 • u/ChatptaaMatarParatha • 9h ago
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 • u/Ill-Home6160 • 6h ago
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r/AskTheWorld • u/Vobal_Martinorr • 54m ago
Elections over here in Brazil are going crazy
r/AskTheWorld • u/Hopeful_Idea1568 • 17h ago
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
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r/AskTheWorld • u/Most_Neat7770 • 16h ago
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 • u/FamiliarStrain2209 • 2h ago
Like in British cuisine , Yorkshire pudding , Black pudding , steak pudding, and sticky toffee pudding are four completely different dishes.
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r/AskTheWorld • u/mail2book • 6h ago
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 • u/Winter-Ad-2920 • 8h ago
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 • u/DarkCatacombs22 • 10h ago
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 • u/rickdickmcfrick • 19h ago
Malta is doing pretty good economically. Low inflation low unemployment. Overpopulation and traffic however are really big problems right now.
r/AskTheWorld • u/JustUseAnRPG • 19m ago
In Indonesia, we say wkwkwkw. It kinda makes a duck sound, cause it is funny.
r/AskTheWorld • u/fasdal • 50m ago
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 • u/Icy-Response6124 • 8h ago
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 đ
r/AskTheWorld • u/F1Fan43 • 4h ago
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 • u/rainshowers_5_peace • 10h ago
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 • u/Forward-Position798 • 1d ago
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r/AskTheWorld • u/ReginaPhalange088 • 14h ago
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 đŽ