Chinese people and the concept of embarrassment? That's face culture.
Vladimir Putin doesn't like being couped? That's Stalinist mentality.
Kenyans and healthcare? That's the witch-doctor-zeitgeist, baby.
Chinese people and the concept of embarrassment? That's face culture.
Vladimir Putin doesn't like being couped? That's Stalinist mentality.
Kenyans and healthcare? That's the witch-doctor-zeitgeist, baby.
electric fans work better if you ventilate with outside air, because a closed system of air in a room will just get hotter from the motor = fan death
What? "Fan death" was an urban legend cynically started by a propaganda campaign to get people to use less electricity at night in SK, before their grid was able to handle the load. It's not so much a silly superstition or emergent idea as it is a literal lie that the state told people over and over until they started believing it. It's like the dumbshit carrot nightvision thing in the anglosphere, just a literal lie intentionally spread through official propaganda that became an enduring myth as a result.
CW suicide
I've also heard that's it's not really considered a real thing anymore, but rather is euphemistically used to refer to suicide, though I'm not sure if that's true.