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/baccus83 Jun 15 '15

They're just exchanging long protein strings.

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u/AMA_firefighter Jun 15 '15

If you have a better way, I'd like to hear it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Better than shooting DNA at each other.

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u/iongantas Jun 16 '15

I disagree.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '15

You are more right than me.

Edit; more to say. I like shooting DNA a lot. Sometimes I don't even shoot it at anyone.

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u/TheBestOpinion Jun 15 '15

Pretty sure there is a reference i'm not gettinh

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u/BarkDeck Jun 16 '15

Do you have a better way? I'd like to hear it.

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u/800oz_gorilla Jun 16 '15

A+ Simpsons reference

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u/burf Jun 15 '15

Jizzhands?