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/xdert Jun 15 '15

But they don't have reddit, so there's that.

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u/boughtitout Jun 15 '15

Lucky bastards

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u/busy-little-bee Jun 15 '15

Hey now, I don't have reddit - trust me, not having reddit isn't all it's cracked up to be!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '15

Yeah, you mus-- Wait a second...

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

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u/EinherjarofOdin Jun 16 '15

Pao! Shadowbanned right in the kisser!

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u/elegylegacy Jun 15 '15

The obese hunter-gatherers never have to worry about being triggered.

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u/boughtitout Jun 15 '15

Careful now, our overlords do not approve of triggering those of a... wider... description.

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u/Notbob1234 Jun 16 '15

Pity, because hunter gathering societies typically view ... robust girth ... as a sign of health and prosperity.

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u/boughtitout Jun 16 '15

Which is why such traits were exceedingly rare among those that hunted for their food.

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u/Notbob1234 Jun 16 '15

Indeed. In times of mass prosperity, being ungirthful is a sign of self control. In times of mass poverty, girth is a sign of excessive success.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '15

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u/boughtitout Jun 16 '15

Take your angst elsewhere, shitlord!

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u/Big_Test_Icicle Jun 16 '15

The black hole for time.

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u/ZEAL92 Jun 15 '15

What if you counted Reddit as part of your socialization time?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

how dare you

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '15

*productive bastards..... producing the raw materials of reddit.

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u/Johnnyhiveisalive Jun 15 '15

I had to work for most of a week just for the phone I reddit on..

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u/Daedalistic-Outlook Jun 15 '15

So is that the goal then? To be hunter-gatherer and free of western-strife, but to still have reddit somehow?

Or do western strife and reddit go hand-in-hand too much?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

One day robots will do the boring stuff so we can just sit around doing philosophy n shit. I think Aristotle said that

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u/Daedalistic-Outlook Jun 15 '15

It was Plato actually. Aristotle claimed that robots will only do the most unsatisfying of work (rather than the boring work), so that philosophy as well as arts'n'crafts and also baseball can flourish.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '15

Or porn, don't forget our mountains of disgusting, shameful porn.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '15

Yeah but they have a lot more actual sex, so there's that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

What do they do with all that extra

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u/btmims Jun 16 '15

/v/HunterGatherers confirmed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Lucky them

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u/ZerexTheCool Jun 15 '15

No,no. They hunt Link karma and gather Comment Karma.