My three-year-old has taught me the value of talking to strangers

Re:My three-year-old has taught me the value of talking to s... by jjav on Friday April 23, 2021 @03:23PM (#26918205)

> I recognize that it's way more culturally accepted with random conversations with strangers in the USA (something I really do appreciate with US culture whenever I have visited, BTW) than what I'm used to back home.

Very interesting. Where are you from that the US is comparatively more open to stranger conversation?

Coming from latin america where it is the norm to end up in lively conversation with any random stranger if you share the same space for more than a minute, I've always found the US culture extremely disconnected. In the US you can stand in line at (say) the DMV for an hour and nobody talks to anyone.

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Re:My three-year-old has taught me the value of talking to s... by 3np on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:21PM (#26921325)

I realized a bit after writing that that Latin countries and in general around the equator are probably maybe even more so :)

Northern Europe and Eastern Asia. I don’t think I’ve even observed such an interaction (outside of social settings like bars and events) for the past couple of years even before COVID.

Someone mentioned population density but sunlight and latitude seem to affect culture around this even more so.

Sun and light seem to bring out the extrovert side of the populace. To the extent that Scandinavians are extroverts with strangers, it’s generally in spring and summer.

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