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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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