23 Funny cultural quotes

• It’s so unfair that saying “xd” is still socially acceptable, but only if you’re speaking Spanish.

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  16 hours ago

  acceptable, communication, cultural, cultural difference, difference, humor, internet, internet slang, language, norm, only, saying, slang, social, social norm, socially, Spanish, speaking, still, texting, unfair

• They say white people don’t have their own culture, but I just got invited to a gender reveal party for a dog, and there’s no way we appropriated that from anyone else.

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  19 hours ago

  anyone, appropriation, cultural, cultural appropriation, culture, dog, else, gender, gender reveal, got, humor, i, invited, joke, just, own, party, people, reveal, say, white, white culture

• “There’s a particular type of insufferability that rich people from poor countries have, that I don’t yet fully know how to verbalize.”

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  21 hours ago

  country, cultural, cultural difference, difference, humor, i, insufferability, know, observation, particular, people, person, poor, poor country, rich, rich person, social, social observation, type

• This is the wrong generation for people with an old soul.

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  21 hours ago

  clash, cultural, cultural clash, generation, humor, identity, old, old soul, people, soul, wrong

• Arab perfumes have zero chill… the entire street knows you’ve arrived.

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  22 hours ago

  arab, Arab perfume, arrival, chill, cultural, cultural reference, exaggeration, fragrance, humor, knows, perfume, reference, scent, street, zero

• Asian parents give you unmoanable names so you can focus on your studies.

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  1 day ago

  Asian, Asian parent, cultural, cultural stereotype, focus, give, humor, name, names, parent, parents, stereotype, study

• I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ — which is so much better.

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  1 day ago

  better, cheese, colleague, cultural, cultural difference, difference, equivalent, explaining, explanation, free, free cheese, free lunch, humor, i, idiom, lunch, me, mousetrap, much, only, phrase, thing, told, Ukrainian

• You’ll never see Asian parents kissing, hugging, or in any form of romance, but boom, 5 children.

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  5 days ago

  5, affection, Asian, Asian parent, boom, children, cultural, cultural stereotype, family, form, hugging, humor, kissing, never, parent, parents, romance, stereotype

• When something Asian becomes popular enough, it becomes Mexican.

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  2 months ago

  Asian, cultural, cultural mix, enough, food, humor, identity, mexican, mix, popular, popularity, something, stereotype

• Asked a German girl for her number, and I’m still waiting for the rest of the digits. So far, all I have is “nine.”

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  2 months ago

  asked, cultural, dating, digits, German, girl, humor, i, joke, language, number, pun, rest, still, waiting

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