有什么在你的文化中完全能被接受但在其他文化里却被视为无礼冒犯的？ [美国媒体]

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What is perfectly acceptable in your culture but offensive in other cultures?

有什么在你的文化中完全能被接受但在其他文化里却被视为无礼冒犯的？


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John Goitia Atheist Colombian Homosexual Unapologetic. Answered Oct 9
In my country Colombia is ok to dress with little clothing no one makes a huge deal about it. We’re a tropical country you can’t walk around all covered up under 30 degrees can you?

在我的祖国哥伦比亚，穿着小衣服是可以的，没有人会对此大做文章。我们是一个热带地区国家，在气温30度的时候你穿太多衣服是没法自由活动的不是吗?

Last year the Colombian cyclist female team designed this uniform for an international competition.

去年，哥伦比亚自行车女队为参加一场国际比赛特意设计了这套制服。



No one in Colombia thought anything other than their uniform is color gold.

在哥伦比亚，人们对她们队服的想法只有它是金色的这一点，除此之外别无他想。

As soon as they went to compete reporters from the US and the UK were absolutely horrified because they looked like they were naked.

她们一到比赛现场，美国和英国记者就被吓得目瞪口呆，因为她们看起来就像没穿衣服一样。

Then a storm in twitter with “empowered” British and American women complaining about it claiming the Colombian women team is being used and exploited as sexual obxts.

随后，英国和美国的女人对此大肆抱怨，在推特上“刮起了”一场谴责风暴，她们声称（我们像玩弄）性玩物一样利用和剥削哥伦比亚女队员们。

Ironically this is the male team . (Of course UK and US reporters said nothing about them)

讽刺的是，以下是哥伦比亚男队（穿的队服）。(当然，英国和美国记者们对此只字未提)



I supposed men cant be oppressed according to some morons in the Anglo-sphere!

我想，在英语文化圈里的一些蠢货们认为男人是不会受到压迫的！

IRONICALLY THE UNIFORM WAS DESIGNED BY THE FEMALE TEAM THEMSELVES!

更讽刺的是，这队服是女队自己设计的！

This is how the BBC showed them

这就是英国广播公司如何播放女队队服的画面。



YES THE BBC!!!

是的，英国广播公司是这么做的！！！！

Any similarity with Saudi Arabia is just mere coincidence!

若与沙特有任何相似之处（注：沙特女性一身黑只露出眼睛）都只是巧合！

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Geraldine Cheung I'm average upxed Oct 24 
Being blunt.

坦率地讲。

With my parents (and everyone else’s Asian parents) it’s perfectly acceptable to say this. I kid you not:

对于我父母（以及其他所有的亚裔父母）来说，说这种话是完全可以接受的。我不骗你：

“Wah daughter! You become so fat! Why you no excercise hah?”

“哇，女儿啊！你变太胖了！为什么你不锻炼呢，啊？”

“Only A in Chemistry? Why no A*? How you be doctor hah?”

“化学只拿了A？为什么没有拿A 啊？这种成绩你要怎么当医生啊？”

“Why all your friend smarter than you?”

”怎么你所有的朋友都比你聪明？“

“Look at XYZ! She get da 95% in Engrish. Why you have only da 90%? I so disappointed.”

“你看看人家那谁！她英语得了95分。为什么你才90分？你太让我失望了。”

“Efry parent have the good children. Why I have you?”

”那谁的爸妈生了个那么懂事的小孩。我怎么生了个你这样的？“

update: So Quora has collapsed this (again) because of an image in this answer (really?). Broken down the image goes like this:

更新：所以因为回复里的这张图片，果壳网又崩溃啦（要不要这样）？那张发不出来的图片讲的是：

When You’re Sick

当你生病的时候

WHITE PARENTS

白人父母是这样的：

“…Don’t worry sweetie you’ll be fine soon. <3”

”......别担心，宝贝，你很快就会好起来的。<3"

ASIAN PARENTS

亚裔父母

“WE TOLD YOU NOT TO GO OUT WE TOLD YOU TO BRING A JACKET WE TOLD YOU TO DRINK MEDICINE WE TOLD YOU TO STAY AT HOME WE TOLD YOU BUT YOU WOULDN’T LISTEN NOW LOOK WHAT HAPPEN IF YOU DON’T LISTEN TO US.”

“我们跟你说过不要出去的吧、叫你要带上一件夹克衫（免得着凉）、提醒过你要记得喝药、叫你呆在家里（别乱跑），我们都跟你说过了，但你就是不听话，看，你这不就生病了，你怎么就不听我们的话呢。”

Oh well.

哎，好吧（我听就是了）。

Matthew Bates Teacher (2009-present) Answered Nov 10
I’m going to go with the subculture I grew up in: Small-town Southern (United States).

我要介绍一下我成长的亚文化环境：美国南部的一个小镇。

There it’s perfectly acceptable to call women you don’t know “sweetheart” or “sweetie” or compliment them on their outfit or hairstyle. It isn’t considered flirting or sexist or demeaning… it’s just being polite.

称呼那些你不认识的女性“甜心”或“宝贝”，或者称赞她们的衣着或发型，都是完全可以接受的。这些不会被认为是调情、性别歧视或贬低人家…只是出于礼貌而已。

I remember being at restaurants where every table had a family at it and every man of the family said things like “Can we get a round of tea for the table Sweetie” to the waitress. Then when she brought the tea it was “Thanks Sweetheart.”

我记得有一次在餐馆里，每桌坐的都是一家子，家里的男人都会对女服务员说:“可以为我们桌每人各上一杯茶吗？宝贝。”而当她把茶端过去的时候，他们也会回答：“谢谢你，甜心。”

That would be considered sexual harassment here in Chicago. You’d be asked to leave the restaurant if you weren’t slapped first.

在芝加哥，这被认为是性骚扰。如果你不是先被扇耳光的话，那你就会被要求离开餐馆。

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Aditya Bhat Motorsport data doctor. Answered Oct 8
Picking strangers' kids up and being affectionate.

抱起陌生人家的孩子，对孩子表露喜爱之情。

Indian people do this all the time. Your grandparents are out for a walk in the park and a little kid runs out in front of them followed by the parents.

印度人老喜欢这么做了。你爷爷奶奶在公园里散步，然后一个小孩跑到他们跟前，后面跟着小孩子的父母。

Your grandmum will pick that kid up twirl it around kiss it on the cheek say shit like “ooh who's a cute little boy” whilst your granddad goes out and buys a chocolate bar for the kid and the kid’s parents stand there beaming smiles looking proud.

你奶奶就会把那个小朋友抱起来，转一圈，还在小朋友脸颊上亲一下，然后说“哦，这是谁家小男孩，真可爱呀”，而你爷爷则会买一个巧克力棒给这个小孩子，那孩子的父母就站在旁边微笑着，看起来很自豪。



And it doesn't have to be grandmums either. Male or female of any age as long as you don’t look like a murderer it's acceptable.

而且并非只有奶奶才能这么做。无论男女，只要你看起来不像是个杀人犯，这么做都是没问题的。

On the flip side..

反过来......

When I was about 17 my family and I took a trip to Europe on one of these package holidays which meant we were put in a group of all kinds of Indian people.

那是我17岁的时候，我和家人跟团去欧洲旅游，这意味着我们跟一群各色各样的印度人出行。

At Disneyland in Paris a kid that looked eerily like the one from Baby's Day Out was just standing next to its stroller looking around.

在巴黎的迪斯尼乐园里，一个神情有点怪的小朋友（就像《小鬼当家》里的场景一样）就站在他的婴儿车旁边，四处张望着。



Unable to tolerate the newfound cuteness of a white kid a lady from our group ran up to the kid and picked it up.

由于受不了这个白人可爱小萌宝的诱惑，我们团的一位女士跑到小孩子旁边把他抱了起来。

The kid's mum instantly lost her shit screamed her head off and threatened to call the police.

小孩子的妈妈马上失去了理智，大声尖叫起来，威胁说要报警。

The tour guide did a good job of calming her down though.

不过，还好导游安抚工作做得不错，让她平静了下来。

“That middle aged Indian lady isn’t kidnapping your kid she just thinks he’s cute”

“那个中年印度女人不是要绑架你的孩子，她只是觉得你家宝贝太可爱了（忍不住想抱抱）。”

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Lucas Cutrim Brazilian guy. Answered Oct 8 
Men wearing sungas (small bathing suits) on the beach.

男人在海滩上穿着小泳裤。



Here in Brazil it is perfectly fine for men to wear only a sunga on the beach and nearby areas. No one will judge you and it is actually the norm. Men wear shorts too but not as often.

在巴西，男人们在海滩上或沙滩附近只穿着小泳裤是完全没问题的。没有人会对此有何评判，实际上这都是一种惯例了。男人有时也会穿短裤，但不常见。

The Olympics drew a lot of attention to Brazil. Journalists from all over the world came here to keep up with the event.

奥运会（的举办）让巴西得到了很多人的关注。来自世界各地的记者们都纷纷赶来争相报道这一盛事。



NBC decided to use Copacabana Beach as its background and Americans ended up looking at Brazilians wearing their sungas. The American press apparently didn’t like it very much…

（美国）全国广播公司还决定用科帕卡巴纳海滩作为（采访）背景，而美国人最后却把注意力放到了镜头后面身穿小泳裤的巴西男人们。显然美国媒体对此不甚欢喜…



“… are invading television broadcasts and raising eyebrows …”

“......（小泳裤）侵入电视节目画面，令人哗然......”

We Brazilians are so indecent! How could we forget our moral values… ugh.

我们巴西人真是太不雅了！我们怎能忘记我们的道德价值观呢…啊呸。

Ivy GerassimouAnswered Nov 10
Calling people “cunt”.

叫人“婊子”。

In Australia we call each other cunt all the time it’s like another word for “mate”.

在澳大利亚，我们总是这样称呼对方，“cunt”就是“mate（朋友，伙伴，老兄）”的另一种叫法罢了。

I had a British friend visit Australia for the first time and he was offended when someone called me a “sick cunt”. He thought the guy was insulting me but he was actually complimenting me.

我有个英国朋友，他是第一次来澳大利亚时，当有人叫我“婊子”的时候，他觉得很生气。他以为那家伙是在侮辱我，但其实那人是在称赞我。

It’s not seen as a dirty word here. It’s seen more as a praise than a derogatory term.

在那里，“cunt”这个词并不被视为是脏话。与其说它是一个贬义词，不如说它是一个褒奖词。

Sean Kernan Son of Quora Answered Nov 10
Small talk

寒暄闲聊。

It throws people off and annoys them.

这会把人吓跑，还惹人烦。

Europeans hate being stuck in an elevator with me.

欧洲人讨厌电梯里只有我和他们。

We Americans love to shout “Hello! HOW ARE YOU?” at complete strangers as we pass them on the street.

走在街上的时候，哪怕遇到完全陌生的人，我们美国人就是喜欢对他们喊，“嘿，你好啊？”

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Shreya Thacker studied at Georgia State University Answered Oct 12
Cohabiting with parents past the legal age.

过了法定年龄还与父母住在一起。

Much to my amusement an american colleague once wore an incredulous look the whole time I told him that it was culturally acceptable to reside with parents (in India) not just past the age of 18 but also after marriage.

令我感到好笑的是，某次我告诉我的一位美国同事说，在印度不管你是过了18岁（成年）还是在结婚之后，仍跟父母一起住在文化上是被接受的时他全程一脸难以置信的表情看着我。

Purely for my entertainment I rattled his brain further by telling him that my grandparents parents/uncle-aunt cousins/sibling/me and my niece — that's 4 generations — live together under the same roof.

纯粹为了逗他，我还跟他添油加醋说，我和我爷爷奶奶/伯父伯母叔叔婶婶/堂表兄弟姐妹/侄女——整整四代人——都住在同一个屋檐下，这让他头脑更凌乱了。

‘You're a weak man’ he said ‘if you continue to be a burden to your parents.’

“如果你继续这样，啃老的话，”他说，“那你是个软弱无能的废物。”

It was lost on him that in India this isn't the definition of burden but of sanskar (culturedness). Children do not reside with parents out of helplessness compulsion or the weight of expectations. Our upbringing doesn't make it look so because this has been the norm for centuries.

对于印度这种认为这不是负担而是文化传统的说法，他实在理解不能。（对他们而言）孩子们不会因为自己没能力、被人强迫或期待的重托而与父母住在一起。而我们的成长过程并不可能是如此的，因为几百年来我们都是这样过来的，已经成为常态了。

For most of us this is how life comes a full circle — parents raise us and we as young adults look after them when they're old.

对我们大多数人来说，这就是生命延续的圆满循环——父母养育了我们，当年幼的我们长大成人的时候，就应该在他们年老的时候（在其身边）照顾他们。

Parents won't ask this of you or hold this over your head of course. Their love remains non contractual. But if it is done out of willingness they won't deny it.

当然，父母不会要求你这么做，也不会以此来威胁你。他们永远无条件爱你。但如果你是出于自愿，他们也不会拒绝（你照顾他们）。

In disbelief he kept shaking his head. It was a fun little conversation mostly because of his shock.

对此我的同事完全不信，一个劲地摇头。与他的这段小对话还是挺有趣的，主要是他那一脸震惊的样子。

I understood how polar the two cultures are especially in this regard.

我理解这是两种文化在这方面表现出来的差异。