Author Question: what things are seen as normal in other countries but as deviance in england? (Read 976 times)

aero

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i'm doing some sociology homework, i really need help.
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hummingbird

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Sry dahling, our culture has been more or less made redundant by the modern youth's obsession with wanting things and wanting them now.

Kids don't think consequences can affect them, and that is a bubble.



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In India eating food with hands (not spoon and fork or chopsticks) is pretty normal, where as in many parts of the world including England people eat with fork and knives.

To turn on 'power' in a switch in the UK one pushes the switch 'down', where as in the US 'on' is pushing the switch 'up'.

Normal way of driving in the US (and most parts of Europe) is on the right, where as in the UK it is left (same as many parts of the world where the British ruled- like India, S-Africa).

In the Arabic world (arabic script) people write (and read) from right to left, were as in most other parts of the world (inculding English) people read and write from left to right.



 

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