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091 - Unwritten Rules

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Nodumbquestionssciencehistorydestinmattsmartereverydaysmartereeryday, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 August 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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0:00.0

So you've been up in my neck of the woods a couple of times.

0:09.6

I mean, you've traveled to Colorado, you've been to Wyoming once, you've been around

0:13.4

the American West a little bit.

0:14.9

I've been your way, quite a bit.

0:16.4

I really like Alabama.

0:17.6

But one of the things that I notice going between the two, and I'm curious if you notice

0:21.9

too, is that there's a slightly different set of unwritten rules about just how to be

0:27.9

cool to people.

0:28.9

And what this means versus what that means in one place or the other, have you noticed

0:33.2

that the unwritten rules are there and that they change a little bit depending on where

0:37.4

you're standing?

0:38.4

Absolutely.

0:39.4

Not just between where I live and where you live, but anywhere.

0:43.8

For example, you know the okay sign like, hey, how you doing?

0:47.0

You're doing okay and you hold up your finger and you make a circle with your thumb and

0:51.8

your index finger and then you have your three fingers, the okay sign.

0:55.3

Do you know what I'm talking about?

0:56.3

Yeah, of course.

0:57.3

So here in the United States, you're like, you're doing okay, buddy, and you hold that

1:01.6

up.

1:03.6

Apparently in Peru, it doesn't mean that.

1:06.5

What did you find out that it means?

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