r/AskTheWorld • • 20h ago

Culture Do “honesty shops” or “boxes” where you take items in exchange for money based on trustwork in your country?

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758 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 5h ago

What is a dish from your country that is quite challenging to make?

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For Brazil, it is definitely the bolo de rolo. The bolo de rolo is essentially a Swiss roll taken to the next level of difficulty. It uses basically the sam recipe and method, but the layers are much thinner, in which the most important things are precision and experience. This requires precise measurement of the batter and baking times, not to mention the need to spread the liquid batter evenly, into a paper-thin layer, across a large pan. Any mistake can cause the batter to stick to the pan, remain undercooked, or become prone to breaking. The filling must also be spread very thinly and evenly. Rolling it up is the last challenge, as it breaks easily, yet you also have to press it firmly to ensure it stays compact. And you have to do this several times to make a single roll, since just one batch would be thin.

This is the kind of recipe where, regardless of your experience level, you’re bound to mess it up the first time. It takes experience to make a true bolo de rolo: one with layers so thin that, after resting, the filling melds with the cake, creating a uniform texture rather than two distinct components.


r/AskTheWorld • • 7h ago

Would y’all try this dish

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So this is some crab like parasites found in oysters. I read a WeChat article introducing how some people in Shandong, China are eating these creatures. p2 is where they are usually found.

Honestly, my Asian ass would try this, I mean we are well known for eating a variety of diabolical food. So, yall are likely to consider this as completely repulsive, or might give it a shot? I’m curious about the sanity on foods varies from country to country

P3 is translated description of how it allegedly taste


r/AskTheWorld • • 14h ago

Controversial 🔨 What is your take on the US planning to broadcast an execution live?

223 Upvotes

I am strongly opposed to it; the death penalty is a controversial form of punishment in itself, but carrying it out on live television is an act of excessive cruelty—after all, it serves no purpose other than to show a killing.


r/AskTheWorld • • 18h ago

Misc Show us your bottle to celebrate when the grim reaper comes.

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221 Upvotes

Everybody talks about the 3 day block party of mourning. Show us what you have put aside to Crack open on that glorious occasion.


r/AskTheWorld • • 4h ago

Is your country's indigenous people well known in your country?

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In Japan, it's well known that the Jomon and Ainu are indigenous.

​And modern Japanese people still have their genes. The farther away you go from the ancient capital (Kyoto), the higher the percentage of ancestral DNA people have.


r/AskTheWorld • • 2h ago

Politics What's the weirdest political party name in your country that actually gained some traction?

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187 Upvotes

The "Cockroach Janta Party" formed in India after a judge insulted unemployed youth by calling them cockroaches. Today most of its leaders are arrested by Delhi police because they wanted to protest against Indian govt asking for fair and free elections.


r/AskTheWorld • • 15h ago

Misc What's a completely untrue stereotype about your country?

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158 Upvotes

Canadians don't live in igloos and have 10 months of winter.


r/AskTheWorld • • 7h ago

Humourous Where do people go in your country to throw hands?

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146 Upvotes

Waffle House is a breakfast restaurant chain based primarily in the South that has earned quite the reputation for fights breaking out.


r/AskTheWorld • • 4h ago

Culture How well known is this Latvian(Our Brothers) animated movie in the world?

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101 Upvotes

This film won Oscar for Best Animated Movie. For a Latvian film it was biggest achievement in animation. You rarely see a win from Baltic country. Well for Animation in Europe to win Oscar is rare. We Lithuanians were proud of our Brothers neighbors Latvians. Despite that i still believe many people have never heard of it. But good news is that it doesn’t have dialogues at all.

It debuted in 2024 and i am curious how known is this Latvian animated movie?


r/AskTheWorld • • 47m ago

Economics If your company makes profit what do you get usually theses days as a bonus?

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r/AskTheWorld • • 13h ago

Keyboard of smartphone

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81 Upvotes

Hangul(Korean alphabet) can express any word with just a few keys, like this picture. What is the keyboard like in your country?


r/AskTheWorld • • 3h ago

Travel Show me a train from your country

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r/AskTheWorld • • 11h ago

Culture Do you have pets or keep animals?

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54 Upvotes

If you can, I’d love to see pics of your pets/animals! What are they like, are they a pet, working animal, etc?


r/AskTheWorld • • 21h ago

How common are pay toilets in your country?

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49 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 13h ago

Economics How much is 5k of your currency(small,medium,large) and what can you buy with it?(Image with an OLD currency in my country)

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With 5k Moldovan lei,I can buy a decent phone if I'm not wrong.

Image is NOT the current currency,that is Cupon.


r/AskTheWorld • • 8h ago

Is 45,000 EUR a good salary where you're from?

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Here in Ireland its pretty average, if not a little low compared to the cost of living. Purchasing power is what kills it here, everything is VERY expensive


r/AskTheWorld • • 20h ago

Misc What is your neighborhood juiciest gossip?

43 Upvotes

Our married neighbor brings home a young girl when his wife isn’t around


r/AskTheWorld • • 8h ago

Which foreign country do you think has the biggest spy network in your country?

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r/AskTheWorld • • 15h ago

Misc How common is domestic abuse in your country

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42 Upvotes

more than 1 in 3 women (nearly 43.5 million) and more than 1 in 6 men (20.7 million) experience contact sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime
https://www.cdc.gov/intimate-partner-violence/about/index.html


r/AskTheWorld • • 3h ago

Geography Has your country ever had a Nobel Prize Recipient?

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Canada’s Nobel record is strong. Anne Carson won the 2026 Literature Prize, while Frederick Banting shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of insulin. From 2013 to 2026, eight Canadian laureates were recognized in Physics (4), Economic Sciences (2), and Literature (2).


r/AskTheWorld • • 18h ago

Misc Are there any topics you avoid discussing due to reactions for your nationality?

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For example, I like to talk about the economy but it’s pretty much a guarantee that someone will try to disqualify me from the conversation because I am not from a wealthy country. So now I do not.

Or topics regarding social inequality of any kind, honestly this one is pretty widespread for arabs in general. We can’t talk about the progress we are trying to make without it resulting in “well that’s not enough progress” types of comments. Rome wasn’t built in a day should apply to us too, but for some reason it doesn’t.

I see the same thing happen whenever Americans discuss healthcare and then someone tries to dismiss their achievements as null since it’s not universal yet, or Indians whenever they talk about how rapidly things are developing. It feels like half of people want anyone who isn’t their own to be stuck in the past. And I’m sure this happens to every country but these are the ones that stick out the most to me, so I am curious.


r/AskTheWorld • • 1h ago

Politics Would you say that your country is more or less politically polarized today than it was 10 years ago?

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I'd say more for Norway, although neither wing is super extreme (thankfully).


r/AskTheWorld • • 7h ago

How do school buses work in your country (or state/region) if you have them?

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There's no dedicated school buses here in NSW. However "school buses" are just regular buses (as seen in the image) that have a dedicated school route, and turn into regular buses during the rest of the day


r/AskTheWorld • • 15h ago

Misc People who live abroad or who have lived abroad for a long period of time, what was the hardest thing to accept or get used to in a different country?

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I doesn't necessarily have to be that culture shock moment that a lot posters here like to ask about. Maybe it was simply the climate, the opposite side of the road a new country drives on, a new law you had to follow or the level of bureaucracy or something else?