What habits or practies have you adopted from cultures besides your own?
For example, I'm a white Jewish guy but I've adopted the Japanese practice of keeping dedicated house slippers at the front door.
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For example, I'm a white Jewish guy but I've adopted the Japanese practice of keeping dedicated house slippers at the front door.
I cross my sevens like a German.
I adopted this years ago so I could tell the difference between a 1 and a 7 😁
This is a German thing? I know tons of people here in Canada who do it.
It's done all over Europe. They also have a fancy 1 that's nice because it doesn't look like a lower case l. I'm not positive that the 1 is used outside France though but it's the standard in France. https://ielanguages.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/davidsno.jpg
Yep, we do that too. It's called a Serif, though it being a French word I'd guess you know that.
I thought it was a Spanish speaking country thing only until this comment
They do the fancy 7 all over Europe.
When you indicate the number 3 with your hand, which fingers do you hold up?
Thumb, index, middle fingers?
Middle, ring, pinky (small finger) fingers?
Index, middle, ring fingers?
I heard Germans do it one of these ways, English does it another, and Americans does it yet another way. Don't know if it's true, but I think I saw that in some movie. Maybe Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino?
I swap between 1) index, middle, and ring and 2) thumb, index, and middle because I was raised with 1) but learned to do 2) while learning American Sign Language, as 1) in ASL means the letter W.
I still do that the right way. Pointer, middle and ring.
I am European and I don't cross them, or any other character (except 't' and 'f')
You've adopted that from North American culture then.
I cross the lowercase z (I write it without a loop).