That’s the north atlantic ocean

back in the 90s there was a couple times lakes in western PA/NY froze over enough people were out driving on them.

It has been a long time since most of those places have been cold enough, long enough, to have a lake become that solidly frozen. It has been 30+ years since I have seen this happen in the mid atlantic.

And every person in a comment section saying “don’t feed the troll” are probably far worse at spotting trolls than they would like to think.

Yeah, I also have trouble with “face saving” culture. Though I haven’t dealt with much of it in an eastern Asian sense, other places I have been were big on that same type of thing. It is just stupid. My friend has worked in a places to play the “rude white person”, in which he is brought on to bring up how executive staff are making decisions that will ruin the business, in meetings. Once that ice is broke it is basically up for conversation, and they can blame it on him being from outside of the culture.

Yeah, anything originating from Chinese requires an intense focus if you want to become proficient with it. At least the Korean writing system was greatly simplified… I guess.

Beyond the language, what is the hardest cultural barrier you have come across? Like what cultural practice is just something that is not something you can really mix with?

So far, what has been your largest challenge? Which country, IYO, is the hardest to move to?

I mean, maybe