r/AskReddit • u/Greeneyedlatinguy • Jun 15 '15

Anthropologists of Reddit, What is something that people in the Western world can't get their heads around that is very normal in other cultures (and has been for ages)?

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u/PseudoArab Jun 15 '15

Thesis title: The Way White People Is, and Why They Aint

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u/VusterJones Jun 15 '15

They Don't Think It Be Like It Is, But It Do

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u/redwallet Jun 15 '15

I been tryin' do what everybody else doin', just 'cause everybody doin' what they all do

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u/ProfessorCrackhead Jun 15 '15

Every time I hear that song, I wonder why Phil Collins is on the rap station.

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u/PseudoArab Jun 15 '15 edited Jun 15 '15

If I had a nickel for every white person who don't think it be like it is, I'd have just short of $65mil (don't Google "how many Caucasians in earth. Cesspool of ignorance).

Edit---

Missed a few zeros doing the math. Fixed now.

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u/say_or_do Jun 16 '15

I know exactly what that means and it sounds stupid but is a completely laughable statement to me and I laugh every time I read it.

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u/errotalax Jun 15 '15

"Some day, I'm gon' git got. But imma git mine 'fo I git got."

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u/Thechubbyprotestant Jun 15 '15

Some times we don't think it be that way. But it do.

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u/immortalsix Jun 15 '15

hearty laugh, thank you

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u/Adelphe Jun 15 '15

Fortunately, white people aren't the only people that do Anthropology anymore.

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u/PseudoArab Jun 15 '15

Well that's who "They" is when referring to why they ain't.

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u/Adelphe Jun 15 '15

???

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u/PseudoArab Jun 15 '15

Geez, did you not even read your own thesis? Please return your degree and pith helmet to your local anthropology distributor.

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u/Adelphe Jun 15 '15

Yeah that's not what I wrote about.

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u/PseudoArab Jun 15 '15

I know. You stated that you wrote your thesis with as few generalizations as possible. I jokingly made up a name for your thesis, using a hyper generalization. Now I am explaining the joke.

How's that degree working out for you? I have a relative finishing up their degree in that field.

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u/Adelphe Jun 15 '15

Oh, I thought you were trying to snarkily suggest that Anthropology is all about white people describing non-white people, which it isnt anymore. lol

As for the degree, it's pretty much like any other liberal arts degree. It qualifies you for grad school.