I'm curious about cultural differences around kids calling adults by their first name with no title. My family is Jewish and we always did that, and it seemed the norm among my friends. Is that a particularly Jewish norm?
You define for yourself whether you're Jewish. I didn't grow up with any religious practice, but still feel culturally Jewish.
(In this I'm not counting teachers or other adults where school/other rules applied.)
This ignores a lot of things like age and country, and flattens the wide variety of non-Jewish cultures into one group, but all of that wouldn't fit into a tumblr poll so I'm simplifying it.
(There probably is actual information on this somewhere out there if I looked, but it's more fun to do a completely non-representative tumblr poll.)
In a world where it is customary to hold your breath while a member of royalty or higher rank is speaking
- Puffing your cheeks is a sign of respect, gratitude, etc
- Sighs, yawns, hiccups, and other forms of loud breathing are considered rude
- Ventriloquism is a respected art because it practices speaking without any sign of breathing or speech
- blue make up is popular because it makes it appear like you've held your breath for others often
- Plants are considered sacred because they purify the air that we taint with our breathing
- Masks are a popular accessory and many heavily traditionalists wear them
- ASMR is considered a horrid act of rebellion and younger generations use it to rebel
- Mouths and noses in general are considered impure
- Surgeries to make breathing more difficult or to breath without anyone noticing are common
- people take classes to breathe without anyone realizing
- Breathing exercises are as private of an event as using the washroom
- Laughter, singing, speaking loudly, and other forms of auditory pleasure are luxuries reserved for the nobility
- Body language is a more respectable form of communicating than speaking
- Speaking is someone you can only do with someone of equal or lower rank. It is offensive for someone of lower rank to speak to you.
- Rooms that get filled with toxic fumes are a punishment to teach respect. Wrong doers get locked in these rooms for up to four minutes.
- People of higher rank are considered cruel and selfish if they speak continuously for more than four minutes
- Executions are usually done through suffocation or toxic gasses
- People that breathe through their mouths are discriminated against and often end up becoming lower class, which leads to them being punished for breathing even more.
- Celebrities often buy personal machines that inject oxygen into their blood stream so they don't need to breath at all.
- Breathing/blowing on someone is considered incredibly rude. Blowing smoke at someone is an incredibly high offence.
- Edibles and syringes are more common for drug use than smoking since you're more likely to get caught
- Scented candles aren't nearly as popular. Neither is perfume. In fact things such as this are taboo. Why do you need air to smell better? Huh? Are you breathing it? Disgusting. Even scented hygiene products will earn you a few stairs.
- Knowing someone's scent is considered incredibly intimate
- The phrase: 'Don't hold your breath' is more used as permission to speak freely or like the phrase 'don't sweat the small stuff' than a sarcastic remark used when impatient
- The gesture of blowing a kiss is considered as offensive as the middle finger
- People with conditions such as Asthma have a similar role in society to people on the Autistic spectrum because they are either extremely patronized and pitied, shamed for their 'blatant disrespect', considered angels for going through so much, or are considered a sign that humanity is evolving towards not breathing
I could go on but I think I've built enough on this dystopian nightmare
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I know we are all going feral over it, but tbh, what I was watching it, it did not strike me as special, simply because in a crowded pub people do touch each other (mostly on the shoulder, or on the back) to get attention, get past, etc. So I don't know of it was a special acting choice, or simply "we're in a pub" situation (and it is not unreasonable to assume that Michael and David have been to a pub together before). I have seen this gesture between men many times, I don't think most guys are even conscious about it. Anyhow, it is a delicious moment, but I am just not sure it is as extraordinary as the fandom might think.
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If you are interested, in Israel, we call other adults by their first names. In schools, it depends on the teacher. Some teachers want to be called 'Teacher' only, while others hate it and ask us to call them by their first name only. Same with professors as well.
We don't do the whole Mr, Miss, Mrs in school at all. We use them in official documents or sometimes when we want to ask a stranger something. Israeli culture is rather informal tbh.
I personally always struggled with the teachers and professors who wanted the class to call them by their first name because I felt like I was being "too familiar" with them and disrespecting them as a result 😅😂
(This is in reference to this poll.)
Oh interesting! Thank you for writing in to let me know, I am interested. I've never been to Israel, but that was the vague impression that I had.
I've never minded calling professors or teachers anything, but I prefer when they actually tell us what they want to to be called so I don't have to guess lol.
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