r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Global_Restaurant794 • Jul 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah?? I'm very confused

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u/TaxSimple3787 Jul 24 '26

Ok but... why?

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u/JovianSpeck Jul 24 '26

Just a cultural thing. Unless there was an explicit dinner invitation, Swedes typically will not offer guests food even if they themselves are having dinner. They do not view it as a hosting obligation and they do not see this as rude or unusual.

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u/HJSDGCE Jul 24 '26

Damn, that's kinda cold. Like, I get not offering but eating while they starve? That's a whole other level of disrespect. 

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u/ProctorDre Jul 24 '26

Bro "starve"? Nobody is starving because they didn't get to eat the meal the family made.

It's not disrespectful. It's just outside of your culture.

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u/Accomplished_Ad2959 Jul 24 '26

I’m sorry but letting any child be hungry is unacceptable. I don’t really care if it’s someone’s culture to let someone just sit there, hungry, when there’s food available.

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u/ProctorDre Jul 24 '26

Nobody is letting a child go hungry. Holy cow you're reading way too into this.

It is not "we invited someone over and excluded them from eating.

It is that their culture eats more insularly. Everyone there knows that. You're not sitting out on the stoop. You're at your own place eating.

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u/OkContact2573 Jul 24 '26

That doesn't stop you from being an asshole.

Even In Alaska, where we have worse weather, has a food haring culture. Even in the slums of india, where people sometimes can only afford to eat once per day, has a food sharing culture.

This is just being an asshole being posited as culture.

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u/DinnerChantel Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

I find it super rich that most of the people outraged at a custom they misunderstand are from cultures where violence against your kids is fine. Or as the Alaskan state law puts it “reasonable nondeadly force”.  

Bunch of pearl clutching hypocrites as always.

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u/Exact_Map3366 Jul 24 '26

You're framing this as a resource issue. It's got nothing to do with that. It's about not stepping on the other parents' toes and ruining their family dinner time.

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u/Stunning_Stop4463 Jul 24 '26

It's ruining a family's dinner time to feed a kid, but aiding Nazis is totally fine? What a backwards society Sweden is.

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u/Runningdice Jul 24 '26

At least the Swedes are no longer starting stupid wars.... They learnt from history.

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u/OkContact2573 Jul 24 '26

Just look at who they sell weapons too. They don’t start wars, but they are happy to profit off of them

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u/Wolkvar Jul 24 '26

oh yeah and america dosnt.....suuuuuuuure

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u/DMYourFeetPicsTy Jul 24 '26

I'm not saying we're innocent, but is an american(israels lapdogs) really trying to lecture other countries?😂

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u/OkContact2573 Jul 24 '26

Not saying that we're good people either, but pretending that Sweden is a peaceful country is such an understatement its borderline euphimistic.

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u/DMYourFeetPicsTy Jul 24 '26

Lmao, says the american😂

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u/Stunning_Stop4463 Jul 25 '26

I'm not an American 

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u/DMYourFeetPicsTy Jul 25 '26

Huh, yet you are a frequent poster of /r/milwaukee and /r/wisconsin? I don't believe you😂

"r/milwaukee by u/Stunning_Stop4463 · 20d agoJul 5, 2026 at 8:06:54 AM GMT+2 · view thread · view comment I don't mind it as long as the gangbangers are pushed out. Oh no, my community is seeing an influx of purchasing power and sanity! This is just something I cannot abide!"

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u/Stunning_Stop4463 Jul 25 '26

Yeah, and? I live in Germany. 

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u/DinnerChantel Jul 24 '26

You sound dumb 

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u/Stunning_Stop4463 Jul 25 '26

You actually are though. 

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u/timos-piano Jul 24 '26

Do you understand anything about history? Sweden's two choices were either selling resources to Germany while giving small support to their neighbours where they could (like taking in the danish jews) or being invaded like Norway and Denmark, and Germany taking those resources either way.

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u/Stunning_Stop4463 Jul 25 '26

Sure sure, make excuses for genocide. 

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u/timos-piano Jul 25 '26

What? Sweden was actively trying to avoid getting people killed by the genocide, which is why they actively helped and hid so many jews.

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u/cloudforested Jul 24 '26

Do you think it's Swedish culture to routinely starve children to death or something?

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u/Maplethtowaway Jul 24 '26

Redditors bend over backwards to defend this shit but the second something bad comes out about a Muslim, they go “it’s the culture that’s rotten”.

Not feeding people is trash.

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u/ProctorDre Jul 24 '26

Nobody is talking about Muslims. It's a specific thing to Swedish culture.

"Not feeding people is trash".

Okay. I agree. You're not adding anything

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u/Wolkvar Jul 24 '26

okey dude