• Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.club
    1·
    9 minutes ago

    People playing and hearing songs with looped beats and vulgar lyrics through a bass boosted sound system which costed them several months worth of minimum wage to pay for having it on their cars. They generally drive slowly through streets near beaches in order to exhibit their “fancy sound systems” while all the vulgarity plays repeatedly. I guess it’s unique from this green-and-yellow country where I live.

    I could also say wearing flip-flops and bermudas on a daily basis, or one of the highest usage and dependency of Meta’s WhatsApp worldwide, or the country with the most welcome (often too nosy) people. Or, through a more positive lens, the richest land where crops easily grow when you sow something, the highest ecological diversity (especially plants, it’s so common to find exotic plants here), the highest climate diversity (you can travel south to meet snow, then travel north/northeast to meet hot climates, without leaving the same country), etc.

  • AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    3 hours ago
    • Not being able to afford healthcare and insurance.
    • Half of the population worshipping a felonious, racist, homophobic sexist as if he’s a deity.
    • K.C. Barbecue.
    • The Stoned Hacker@lemmy.world
      12·
      3 hours ago

      None of these are unique by any means (i wish the second was but fascism is rising globally).

      The styles of it tho, I’ll give you that.

  • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    45 minutes ago

    Horrible Past.

    (Fossil) Vehicle production as economic livelihood.

    Bread fetishism. “Beer purity law”.

    Semi-ironic calls for a kebap price limit

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    1·
    45 minutes ago

    That’s actually really tough in this global age. I live in Japan so things like tea ceremony and Shinto practice come to mind, but there are Shinto shrines and practitioners in many places and people do and teach tea ceremony in other places now. Many would call it the home of sushi and, at least for the common types today, it’s probably true (though certain methods that led to sushi are thought to come from Viet Nam in the past).

    Tanuki exist in other parts of Asia. I assume onsen (hot sprint) monkeys do as well. Maybe something with Wasabi, but I doubt it. I’m not sure, really.

    Edit: thought of one: seeing the Iriomote cat in its natural habitat (although that’s really hard since they were nearly hunted to extinction for their pelts at one point). Speaking of Okinawan islands, you can also see Taiwan on a good day from the westernmost point of Yonaguni. That was neat. I took a picture with my phone at the time and it’s really hard to see anything, but I could see land with my eyes.

  • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.social
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Probably like, 95% of the people in my city are either neutral or supportive of LGBT people. The last 5% are so fucking insane that it’s still scary to be LGBT. - (major Texas city)

    Edit: I kinda assume this is unique because I’d think most places are either safe (with the occasional heckler) or completely unsafe. Texas seems special because it seems like most people don’t care or are supportive, but then you get the nutjob who’s entire reality is shattered by the idea that you aren’t straight and/or cisgendered and all they can do is get apocalyptically mad about your existence.

    Edit 2: oh yeah, on a less depressing note, iirc Texas is like, sorta kinda half canyon. Iirc Palo Duro canyon doesn’t really have an end to it, it just kinda… widens until it becomes part of the normal landscape (I might be thinking of a different canyon though). As such, you could basically consider anything downstream from the canyon as being inside the canyon, resulting in a huge chunk of Texas existing in a canyon!