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Questions tagged [culture]

for questions about claims based on the culture of various countries and regions.

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Did Native American have a Zodiac-like birth sign tradition?

This "Native American Zodiac symbol" page was shared to me on social media. In this article, we’ve narrowed the focus to the ‘birth animals’ – the Native American zodiac. Like the modern horoscope, indigenous tribes also believed that a person born…
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Are bikinis banned from the 2013 Miss World competition in Indonesia?

The Sun newspaper reported: The pageant is taking place in the Far East country for the first time and organisers are wary of upsetting Muslim fanatics. [...] But the pageant's chairwoman Julia Morley said: "I do not want to upset or get anyone in…
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Does the Pepsi brand name stand for "pay every penny to save Israel"?

Is this how the name Pepsi was formed? Example of the claim
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Did Master Stone Masons have to Bow to the King?

I have heard this multiple times, including in a documentary once. The claim is that the Master Stonemason, in historic times, did not have to bow to the King (generally implied to be from the British master Stonemason to the British King) 1,…
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Is obesity correlated with solitary and/or social eating?

The basis of this question is a pair of newspaper articles that appeared in the Guardian just over a year apart. I know, it's not a scholarly journal, and the articles aren't remotely scientific. The two articles highlight divergent conclusions…
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Are there more Greeks living outside of Greece than inside it?

I heard recently that there are more Greeks currently living outside of Greece than inside it. My source, of course, didn't qualify whether that statistic only includes people who were born there, but let's include for the sake of argument any 1st…
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Are there more than 20 million pieces of art in London's galleries?

This video claims that there are more than 20 million pieces of art in London's galleries. The video is an attempt to see all the art in London in a single day. The protagonist in the video got to sample 13 galleries out of 92. The story reports the…
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Do a third of Italian men live with their parents?

I have heard that Italian men live with their parents as a racial stereotype joke and from some Italian friends. They say that this is true because they have seen these people in their environments or neighborhood. But really I want to know if there…
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Do people in only "a few countries" wear their shoes inside the house?

Yesterday I watched the following video on Facebook: America Vs: Shoes At Home. In that video, it's argued that wearing shoes inside the house is inappropriate, mainly because it's not hygienic, but it's also mentioned that in cultures outside the…
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Is this claim about Turkey's restriction on Zorok TV accurate?

Kurdish children's channel Zarok TV to be allowed back on air in Turkey only if 40% of the shows are promoting Turkish culture and language. https://twitter.com/DrPartizan_/status/794858112759058432
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Have all sustainable cultures been illiterate (or not made a fetish of reading)?

I have been reading "What Is Education For" by David Orr and the author makes the following statement: It is a matter of no small consequence that the only people who have lived sustainably on the planet for any length of time could not read, or,…
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