#questions for non-americans

[straightfromthetorturedpoetsdept]

can someone actually explain to me why other countries have laws in place preventing solidarity strikes actually???? like why cant french film strike with american film unions ???? what is the reasoning behind it

[neolithicastronaut]

Wait I saw a post and then lost it but I have a question for Americans. Do you get paid time off work? Like do you get paid sick days? Parental leave? Bereavement leave? Annual leave (ie - paid days off for whatever reason you want)?

And, if the answer is no, follow up question: what the fuck?

[starbuck]

okay, here’s a question: do any of you out there naturally use the phrase “whole-nother” to mean “entirely different,” i.e. “that’s a whole-nother thing”?

i’m trying to figure out if it’s a regionalism from the East Coast Mid-Atlantic area or just an overall Americanism.

[i-am-church-the-cat]

So Logan and I have like the exact same accent and I never know what my accent is so I’m giving it to the people

[redysetdare]

Y'all listen just because you learned something in school doesn't mean everyone else did. idk how y'all got this idea in ur heads that we all learned the same shit when literal book bans are happening in schools across the united states and certain subjects are being banned from ever being talked about. (do not even get me started on the fact different countries have different curriculum too) Like you cannot say "You guys obviously just didn't pay attention in school and are stupid because we all learned this" like you are ignoring like 50 other options as to why people may not have learned this ranging from poorly funded school to disabled kid getting shoved into special ed classes which are often notorious for mistreating their disabled students. I'm begging you all to understand the nuance of why certain skills and abilities aren't as widely spread as you assume they should be.

[godofstupidsentences]

Im once again here to ask aussie hbh fans questions about aussie things that the internet didn’t manage to answer to. The question is: in which year would have the characters of hbh been born in? Assuming s2 is set in… 2022? 2023?

[menlove]

how are you jewish but also latine and also usamerican? /genq

jew(ish) in that I'm ethnically jewish but wasn't raised it but Am converting officially bc imo my genetics don't make me jewish enough to claim it & I still need to learn so so much more about the religion before I claim it. so I stick w jew(ish) & simply just follow/engage w the jewish community as a convert in progress (& my gf is also jewish so I get a lot of exposure that way). but as for the other two my dad & his family are mexican(/navajo) and my mom is as white as they come. I was raised in & live in the united states. mixed race & ethnicity 🤷‍♂️

but also ik race/ethnicity outside of the us is thought of very differently so maybe these things are mutually exclusive to you if you're Not usamerican but here they aren't considered mutually exclusive at all 😭 race & ethnicity are weird social constructs! and I'll be the first to admit usamericans do it weird but ig that's the result of being a country majorly made up of immigrants of all races & ethnicities, black slaves, & all their descendents w the small amount of a native population that would be much larger if they hadn't been murdered but well. You Know.

edit: ALSO idk if you're jewish or not but even if i were Not ethnically jewish at all, since judaism is an ethnoreligion anyone of any race/ethnicity can be jewish & it wouldn't really require further questioning as anyone can convert. there are jews in most countries & of many, many races. and there are also purely ethnic jews who don't practice the religion at all, but i am not one of those!

[baggedfish]

To all non Americans, you do know that you have to have a permit/license to go bowling, right?

I thought this was common knowledge, but it might not be apparently.

[soup-soup-soup-soup-soup]

i would do some highly illegal things for soup rn i need it in my face hole with all due haste

[conjuring-ghouls]

4, 20 and 30 for the country thing :]

Hi!! Thank you for sending these 🥹🖤

I'm half portuguese and half brazilian so I was confused at first as to which country I should chose to answer this, but as I've lived most of my life in Brazil, I think it's only fair that these are all Brazil related.

4. favourite dish specific for your country?

It's so hard to chose just one, we have soooo many yummy dishes 🥹 But as I was born in the south, and as I've been craving and missing it a lot since I've moved to Portugal, I'm going for brazilian barbecue (the southern way hehehe).

20. which sport is The Sport in your country?

I guess I would say football, as we're very known for that worldwide. But we do have so many more interesting ones! Capoeira is just one example, and it's a really cool one, even though i's not considered a competitive sport. It's basically a martial art developed by African slaves that also combines elements of dancing.

30. do you have people of different nationalities in your family?

Yes! My mom, me and my two siblings are half portuguese. My brother in law is english and my uncle's family is swedish 🖤

These are from this ask game.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

There’s a PhD thesis in this somewhere, I bet...

(If someone hasn’t written it already)

The “Halloween Traditions & Tropes” we know and love evolved from European  -- some Pre-Christian, most Early Christian (it’s not all cultural manipulation by the clerics of the Church, gang, please stop spreading that narrative)* -- folk traditions.

But today, Halloween is almost an exclusively an American Holiday, and barely acknowledged in Europe.

So what is it/was it about the American Experience in our history that Halloween into a Whole Thing? Does it have to do with being Colonizers? Immigrants? Both? Something else entirely?

*and I say that as a formerly enthusiastic Neo-Pagan, who was bothered by even when I was active in Pagan/Wiccan circles (and yes, I know that has a double meaning)

[neversetyoufree]

This is a random question, but which characters in vnc would be watching Barbie or Oppenheimer in the Barbenhiemer trend? Let's just imagine it's a Modern AU so that we can include deceased characters in Canon.

Sorry anon but I am not the person to make this meme for you lmao

[currantlee]

Dear Americans and Folks from all over the World — Help!

We need an answer to this question once and for all.

Please vote and share your detailed opinions in the comments / reblogs if you feel up to it. Or don’t. Most importantly, have fun 😊

[notanotherinfjblog]

A small collection

I do still intend to keep writing the other more detailed How to spot guides for each MBTI type individually, but in the meantime, I collected some interviews with several people of each type that you can click through and maybe it helps you see the similarities not just of the people of the same type, but also based on the high functions that they share. I also tried to not exclusively use native English speakers because I’m personally a bit fed up with the anglocentrism of this site and the internet in general (though of course I’m also constrained in my choices here that I can only use people that I know of, which are mostly European), but if I could find some, I included interviews of them speaking both English and their native language. Even if you don’t understand that language, I still recommend looking into those interviews. Not understanding what someone is saying can sometimes actually help focussing on their body language itself.

INTJ:

Margaret Atwood (writer) 

Joyce Carol Oates (writer)

David Fincher (director)

Michael Emerson (actor)

Tom Rachman (writer & journalist)

Patrick Salmen (writer, interview is in German) 

Martin Sonneborn (satirist, journalist & politician, interview is in German)

ENTJ:

Katie McGrath (actress)

Keira Knightley (actress)

Nicholas Hoult (actor)

Anthony Head (actor)

Elijah Wood (actor)

Daniel Radcliffe (actor)

Tamsin Greig (actress)

Markus Zusak (writer)

Zach Woods (actor, comedian & director)

Malala Yousafzai (education activist)

INTP:

Harald Lesch (physicist, astronomer & science journalist, interview is in German)

Axel Milberg (actor & writer, interview is in German)

Peter Capaldi (actor)

Jane Goodall (primatologist & anthropologist)

Neil Gaiman (writer)

R.H. Thomson (actor)

Rooney Mara (actress)

Matthias Brandt (actor & writer, interview is in German)

Kai Meyer (writer, interview is in German)

ENTP:

David Tennant & Matt Smith (actors)

Hugh Grant (actor)

Tilda Swinton (actress)

Saoirse Ronan (actress)

Eddie Redmayne (actor)

David Mitchell (writer)

Bill Nighy (actor)

Florence Welch (musician)

Louisa Harland (actress)

Richard Ayoade (comedian, writer, director & actor)

INFJ:

Colin Morgan (actor)

Freddie Highmore (actor)

Barkhad Abdi (actor)

James Phelps (actor, since he’s with his twin: he’s the one on the right)

Ewen Bremner (actor)

Amy Acker (actress)

Rohinton Mistry (writer)

Audrey Magee (writer)

Jenny Erpenbeck (writer, interview is in German)

ENFJ:

Emma Thompson (actress & screenwriter)

Wes Anderson (director & writer)

Ulrich Wickert (journalist & writer, interview is in German)

Marshall Curry (director)

Eleanor Catton (writer)

Alissa York (writer)

INFP:

Kristen Stewart (actress)

Hozier (musician)

Rupert Grint (actor)

Asa Butterfield (actor)

Eddie Marsan (actor)

Helen Oyeyemi (writer)

Christopher Annen (musician, interview is in German)

ENFP:

Andrew Garfield (actor)

Dev Patel (actor)

Katherine Parkinson (actress, plus her being a prime example of intuitives barely knowing how to survive)

Michael Sheen (actor)

Jan Philipp Zymny (writer & comedian, interview is in German)

Chris Columbus (director)

Maggie Stiefvater (writer)

Lisa McGee (screenwriter & playwright)

Lars Eidinger (actor, interview is in German)

Hannah Herzsprung (actress, interview is in German)

ISTJ:

Felicity Jones (actress)

Lindsay Duncan (actress) 

Famke Janssen (actress, plus an interview in her native Dutch)

Maggie Smith (actress)

Britt Robertson (actress)

Elizabeth Nunez (writer & professor)

Ken Follett (writer)

Vicky Krieps (actress, plus an interview in her native Luxembourgish with subtitles available, and in German and in French)

ESTJ:

Eliza Taylor (actress)

Letitia Wright (actress)

Charles Dance (actor)

Matt Damon (actor & screenwriter)

Sandra Bullock (actress)

Henry Cavill (actor)

Alba August (actress & musician, plus an interview in her native Swedish and Danish)

Alicia Vikander (actress, plus an interview in her native Swedish with subtitles available)

ISFJ:

Gemma Chan (actress & model)

Laura Dern (actress)

Crystal Reed (actress)

Natalia Dyer (actress)

Arthur Darvill (actor)

Jordan Rodrigues (actor & dancer)

ESFJ:

Olivia Colman & Helena Bonham Carter (actresses)

Lupita Nyong’o (actress)

Bradley James (actor)

Scott Moir (figure skater)

John Krasinski (actor, director & screenwriter)

Carey Mulligan (actress)

Emilia Clarke (actress)

Tom Hopper (actor)

Tomi Adeyemi (writer)

Hugh Jackman (actor)

ISTP:

Christoph Waltz (actor & director, plus an interview in his native German)

Harrison Ford & Ryan Gosling (actors)

Ruth Wilson (actress)

Björk (musician, plus an interview in her native Icelandic)

Devon Bostick (actor)

Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (actor, plus an interview in his native Danish)

Evan Peters (actor)

Christopher Lloyd (actor)

Christian Bale (actor)

Peter Maffay (musician, interview is in German)

ESTP:

Zendaya (actress & musician)

Oscar Isaac (actor)

James Acaster (comedian)

Jodie Comer (actress)

Jördis Triebel (actress, plus an interview in her native German with subtitles available)

Stromae (musician, plus an interview in his native French with subtitles available)

Sabaa Tahir (writer)

Tatiana Maslany (actress)

Emilio Sakraya (actor & musician, interview is in German)

Anya Taylor-Joy (actress, plus an interview in her native Spanish)

ISFP:

Santiago Cabrera (actor, plus an interview in his native Spanish)

Ben Howard (musician)

Tessa Virtue (figure skater)

Karen Gillan (actress)

Rachel McAdams (actress)

Gael García Bernal (actor, plus an interview in his native Spanish)

Audrey Tautou (actress, plus an interview in her native French)

Henning May (musician, interview is in German with subtitles available)

Jannis Niewöhner (actor, plus an interview in his native German)

Évelyne Brochu (actress, plus an interview in her native French)

ESFP:

Tom Holland (actor)

Maisie Williams (actress)

Billie Piper (actress)

Robert Sheehan (actor)

Margot Robbie (actress)

Jim Carrey (actor & comedian)

Omar Sy (actor, plus an interview in his native French)

Taika Waititi (director, actor, comedian & screenwriter)

Alexander Rybak (musician, plus an interview in his native Norwegian and Russian with subtitles available for both)

[thesokovianaccords]

You guys all know I’m a hater first and foremost and nothing gets me going more than my own people lolol what the FUCK is this comment

[stingyslegslookweird]

gonna work on an update for Limitless Evolution (my Agito font), but i want to ask:

people who have downloaded/used the font: are there any problems, complaints, etc. you have with it so far?

i know the upper and lowercase M and N are barely and not at all differently sized, respectively (which is the main issue i’m planning to fix), and there aren’t any parentheses or brackets, but if there’s anything i’ve missed or that you think should be added, i’m more than willing to hear you out, at least.