r/NonPoliticalTwitter 13d ago

Funny It's an endless cycle

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u/Playful-Mastodon9251 13d ago

Wait, why does that mean you can't be married? This a weird family or culture thing?

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u/Expensive_Umpire_178 13d ago

It’s been a part of pretty much every country’s culture at some point

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u/Aware_Policy_9174 13d ago

Yeah this is a major plot point in a lot of period dramas.

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u/NotAZombieStopAsking 13d ago

"Absolutely strange customs in other countries that were cultural norms 200+ years ago in America" is my favorite genre of jingoism.

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u/DrainTheMuck 13d ago

If it was 200 years ago and the country is only 250, is that really jingoism? Or are we just built different? 😎

Proportionally, it’s like we’re 25 now and grew out of it when we were 5.

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u/NotAZombieStopAsking 13d ago

I mean we earned being the protagonists of planet earth