The American Lean

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Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

It's an idea that pops up on Reddit from time to time: that Americans have a unique propensity lean on things. Walls. Chairs. Anything to keep from holding up our own body weight. In fact, some posit that leaning is so uniquely American, the CIA has to train spies not to do it.

Is this baloney? Where did the idea that only Americans lean come from?

Credits: This episode was produced by Ben Brock Johnson. Mix and sound design by Emily Jankowski. It was hosted by Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson.

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0:00.0	Funding for this podcast comes from Math Works, creators of Mat Lab and Simulink software,
0:06.0	accelerating the pace of engineering and science. Learn more at Math Works.
0:11.0	com.
0:12.0	W-B-U-R- Podcast. Work's
0:15.0	W-B-U-R podcasts, Boston.
0:20.0	Are you sitting? Are you sitting down?
0:25.0	I'm sitting down.
0:26.0	Or rather, are you leaning on anything?
0:29.0	I have one wrist leaning on the table in front of me.
0:32.0	All right, I'm going to just share something with you that blew my mind.
0:36.0	Okay?
0:37.0	Okay.
0:38.0	Okay. It is unsurprisingly a Reddit thread.
0:41.0	Okay.
0:42.0	Title of the post.
0:44.0	What's something that's universally understood by all Americans
0:48.0	that non-Americans just don't understand.
0:51.0	And because they don't understand, they unrightfully judge us harshly for it.
0:56.0	Whoa that's a big one.
0:59.0	Yeah, it was like a 4th of July thing kind of, you know, like it popped up.
1:03.0	Top comment, whoa, the top comment has 10,000 up votes.
1:06.8	That is quite a lot.
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