Belarusian living in Bulgaria. To my huge surprise I miss the affordability and quality of banking services and cellphone providers. Local food while delicious is also very fat compared to what I’m used to.
A good question!
I don’t have a fact-based or a researched answer for you. My gut feeling thinks about workaholism, burn-outs and generally people having less leisure time.
I just came to think through a Lemmy post/comment that a lower work culture can be a thing at all. Or is it a thing existing at all, in any country.
I’ve understood that America is a strong work culture, and Finland as well. But are there places with a lower work culture?
…what country are you from
Finland
Do you see a your definition of a strong work culture as a good, bad or neutral thing for the society?
Haven’t thought of it. I feel neutral about it.
The only thing that concerns me is that there could be more burn-outs, more workaholism and more inflamed points of views towards the balance between work and leisure time in a stronger work culture.
I’m a gamer that has played western games the most. I assume that means American English. All those youth years of mine delving in and jumping from a game to another, listening at cutscenes (with subtitles on of course) and talking to other gamers once in a while has probably the most influenced my skill of english.
I think I talk American English pretty fluently nowadays, although I don’t speak English daily. Folks have said I’m pretty good at pronouncing.
New Zealand. We built the first mechanical computer, the Totalizer. (Babbage designed one first, but never completed a working model.) We used it to calculate odds for horse races. It was gravity-powered and used the weight of a concrete block on a rope to turn gears.
America here. We’re odd on that wed have two sets of traditional costume. One would be traditional native American wear, and the other would be cowboy/prairie attire.
What baffles me is that despite that, whenever there was an international food festival at my school, the US booth operators dressed like Uncle Sam instead.
Yup, a well-recogized character that by no means dresses traditionally. Granted, depending on the era you went to school, dressing as cowboys or native anericans could be seen (wrongly) as racist, so if it was within the past 10 years I wouldn’t blame them going with the safer option, socially.
In the US I’ll say littering. Some areas have available trash receptacles well-placed, but that’s few and far between, and some of those places don’t have good systems in place to collect that trash.
But even with that, I get pretty bent out of shape at the amount of littering in nature areas. Families tend to be the worst at this for some reason. Into the mountains to do some sledding, well see someone has left broken, busted plastic sleds and foodstuffs behind. A river? Sandals, swimsuits, broken chairs, foodstuffs. The Forrest for camping? Busted equipmemt, sleeping bags, foodstuffs.
Now, it less common in that not everyone is doing it, but more common in that I usually see at least one example of this at every nature site I go to.
Generally as it’s understood, yes, people are to a degree born gay. Although as it is now, it’s up to chance and the environment around them if they discover it or not, as being straight is so normalized some never figure out they aren’t straight, or if they do, it’s later on in their life.
As to “becoming” gay, it really depends on what is implied with it, usually through context around the situation.
If it’s implied by the person saying it about someone else as being a decision, especially a sudden one, to just “be” gay, it’s generally with an ignorant or sometimes naive perspective behind it, respectively thinking it’s to spite them, just following a “trend”, or just to get out of the relationship with an excuse, or alternatively, they just don’t know better about how it really works.
And if someone is saying they “became” gay about themself, it just tends to mean they discovered that they already were, or in many cases, became more open about it to others after previously figuring it out. Perhaps until that moment, they thought they were straight, or even bi or any number of other possible options, but found out otherwise and realized they were specifically gay.
And finally, if it’s considered offensive, it depends on that previously explained context, as well as the context of how it’s framed within the series, whether it’s just that one character that believes it, or if it’s more widely held as a belief, and whether it’s shown as a good or bad thing within the series.
If it’s taken 100% seriously, and isn’t challenged as being wrong, either by being portrayed comedically as that character having awful views, or another character or some other means indicating as such, then there’s the possibility of it being offensively intended, which goes back to it being naive or out of ignorance.
And for the TLDR variety, start here:
If it’s actually played for comedic effect and/or looked down upon, then it’s the character that is being offensive, and not the series itself.
The problem indeed isn’t that the girlfriend is a lesbisn or potentially bisexual, or that she isn’t interested in him, which would go hand in hand with not being straight, but rather that she is cheating on him, which is itself a more complex matter, and doesn’t necessarily attribute the fault to the girlfriend by itself.
It could even be that part or even none of his claim is true if it’s not otherwise shown to be, in which case it might just be him making up excuses for why his girlfriend isn’t interested in him, when it’s likely to be his personality or something else driving her away from him in reality.
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