Mastodawn

aard Sep 2, 2023

What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?

What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad? - kyu

I was thinking about that when I was dropping my 6 year old off at some hobbies earlier - it’s pretty much expected to have learned how to ride a bicycle before starting school, and it massively expands the area you can go to by yourself. When she went to school by bicycle she can easily make a detour via a shop to spend some pocket money before coming home, while by foot that’d be rather time consuming. Quite a lot of friends from outside of Europe either can’t ride a bicycle, or were learning it as adult after moving here, though.

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Hazzia Sep 3, 2023

Apparently, being able to tell the difference between laundry detergent and fabric softener. Had multiple asian-native room mates in college that made that mistake. They were all pretty fluent so I don’t thunk it was a language barrier issue, but to be fair, Big Laundry doesn’t exactly make it easy to tell what’s what on first glance.

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maimichu

Asian here, my home is addicted to all scented products including laundry with generous amounts of fabric softener. The river water is so hard it’s a necessity in any case, but we love everything having a good smell. In fact, the nearest market sells more scenting products than cleaning products if you can believe it.