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What habits or practies have you adopted from cultures besides your own? (lemmy.world)

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For example, I'm a white Jewish guy but I've adopted the Japanese practice of keeping dedicated house slippers at the front door.

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[-] MentalDiscord@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I am not Jewish, but I have adopted the practice of placing stones/pebbles on my parents' gravestone each time I visit.

[-] emptyother@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Is that cleaned up or are there a pile there after a while?

[-] MentalDiscord@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It stays. It looks like a purposeful embellishment. For my own family's purpose, it acts as a physical record of me visiting often (because extended family is judgemental and believes that I am not visiting at all).

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Pro tip, leave a whole pile of rocks, enough to last for years

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