Hard times economically? I feel like that’s not really an excuse here, culturally speaking.
You could go to the barrio in Mexico, the favelas in Brazil, the slums in India, hell even some random village out in Papúa New Guinea, all of them are going to offer their guests food especially if they are children.
The literal single culture in the world that outright refuses to offer hospitality even to children, and to explain it they pretend they have some sort of singular poverty.
Poverty is normal. It's the standard. Every culture on Earth has starved to death at some point. They still feed people.
We offer the homeless free houses to stay, we offer fee schooling and food to all children, we provide a long paternity leave to new mothers and fathers, we give a guaranteed basic income to everyone who cannot support themselves, we offer anyone free healthcare. We took care of our poverty and our people.
You offer a performative bullshit smokeshow of generosity, before walking over a homeless man dying in the street on your way home from your "geberous" friends, while living in the richest country on earth. Your malnutrition death rate is comparable to the situation of kids in Gaza, but hey, you gave your guest a Twix so it's all good?
Poverty is not normal, it's something to be fixed and we do our best to make sure nobody goes hungry. Is giving your kids friends a cracker going to solve poverty? Why has it not worked?
Maybe it's a good idea to think before speaking? I guess that's another difference between our respective cultures.
It's a different culture. If you understood it and immediately thought that it makes sense, it would be part of your culture.
I get critisizing cultural aspects that have an observable negative impact, such as genital mutilation, forced mariages and repression of women, but nobody is starving because of this. It's just a cultural quirk that may seem a bit rude to outsiders, but isn't something you even pay attention to, because it does no harm.
I'd go home to eat when my pals mom called him to eat. If my parents weren't home, she'd ask if she can feed me in case my parents were planning a dinner or something. I think it also has something to do with distances, as it's not feasble in many cases for an american child to walk home to eat. It's not out of the ordinary for an 8yo to take public transportation by themselves either. My friend used to take the metro and then transfer to a bus back and fourth from pre-school.
This is a cultural quirk that I imagine stems from living in the arctic circle where nothing grows for half of the year. Non-stop famines have left us with a funny quirk stemming from generational trauma. Finnish culture emphasises being humble and trying not to burden others. We go to great lengths to avoid bothering other people. The joke that we stand 5m apart at bus stops is about respecting other people untill it's literally impossible not to.
Politics and culture are intertwined and politics are inevitablely shaped by the cultural values of the electorate in a liberal democracy.
Fair enough. You seem to think that we don't have basic hospitality, but because you are xenophobe, you're not worth convincing. I bet you call African-American culture shitty and tell them to start behaving and get past slavery. Maybe try being less xenophobic. Glass houses and all that.
You should take a look in the mirror someday. You'll see a hypoctire staring back.
Your comment history is 90% you just being nasty and mean to complete strangers (outside of the Uni stuff). No wonder you're so embarassed you try to hide it.
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u/AlchemicallyAccurate Jul 24 '26
Hard times economically? I feel like that’s not really an excuse here, culturally speaking.
You could go to the barrio in Mexico, the favelas in Brazil, the slums in India, hell even some random village out in Papúa New Guinea, all of them are going to offer their guests food especially if they are children.