Nationality based facts I learnt this week...

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I seem to be absorbing much more trivia lately than normal...

In Germany on New Years Eve it's common to watch a short comedy black and white film about a posh British woman and her increasingly drunk butler.

The British actress Olivia Hussey is still a household name in South Korea, despite her career peaking in the 1970s.

Australians have their own national dance to Tina Turner's Nutbush City Limits.

The French equivalent to "la plume de ma tante" is "my tea is rich".

Please tell me more?

Cypriot men usually greet each other with 'Aaaaayyy best man' or 'Aaaaaayyy wanker!' So weird but quite cute

Yes the same film is shown in denmark. Its called Dinner for one. The bbc once had an article about the 10 most famous brits that most brits had never heard of and the butler was on it.

New Zealand has a place name which is longer than Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch -

Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungah-oronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

Dinner for One starring Freddie Frinton, back in the 60s he was a major TC comic - totally forgotten now.

In Russia, on New Year's Eve you watch a movie about a guy who gets drunk in a sauna. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irony_of_Fate

TV comic!

People in Japan eat KFC at Christmas.

It’s my tailor is rich not my tea is rich.

Betty- can you say that word?

Sort of. It takes a gin or two

Can you explain 'my tailor is rich?"

Found it now.

@PigletJohn presumably because you’ve been spending all your money there?

Russians have their modern style Christmas festivities on New Years Eve (a hang over from soviet times). The orthodox then have a religious Christmas of the 6th of Jan. a lot also celebrate Dec 25th as well. Triple Christmas effectively. What’s not to like?

Australians obsessively show their children a film called the rabbit proof fence about abducted aboriginal children (or at least they did when I was growing up, maybe the agenda had changed since then but in hind sight it was very weird).

In India you have to ask people in groups how they are in a certain order otherwise you’re rude. I still can’t remember the order.

In Thailand the head is the pinnacle of the body and the feet considered dirty.

Its rude to touch/stroke someone elses head, and also very offensive to point your feet at someone (say when legs are crossed), step over someone sleeping on the floor or step on a baht note with the kings head on it.

People in Japan eat KFC at Christmas

And you have to book weeks in advance.

India has a 'brother and sisters day' where sisters tie a rakhi around their brother's wrist wishing him well and he gives her cash in return.

A Rakhi is a cotton bracelet often decorated with beads, they can be quite 'bling' so if you see a solicitor or Dr with an incongrous 5 bling bracelets (not sure how it works with the bare arms thng) he has 5 sisters, but this being an Indian tradition those 'sisters' may be nieces or cousins.

Sometimes the tradition is cellebrated without actual relations eg a school near an army barracks may arange for school girls to tie rakhi around the soldiers wrists because the soldiers are far from home.