My nephew is 8, and he’s growing up to be such a typical North American guy, it’s funny.
He told his mother that there’s a girl he likes.
“What is it about her that you like?” she asked.
And he gave this very American reply that sounds deeply strange to those of us who are not from here: “She laughs at my jokes.”
The typical American girl reply of “I like him because he makes me laugh” is just as weird to us.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with any of this, of course. It’s just such a cultural difference because we’d never say something like this.
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What would a Ukrainian say?
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I like her because she’s pretty.
I like him because he makes me feel safe.
Other cultures, do you have your own version of the stock answer?
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“Other cultures” “do you have your “own version of the stock answer?”
Polish people mostly don’t talk very much about reasons for attraction… it’s not a culture where people self-analyze much.
The Ukrainian answers you gave happen but often it’s just ‘nie wiem…. bo tak’ (I dunno…. just because).
Another common answer might be
“ma w sobie to coś” (there’s just something about him/her) maybe more likely to be said by a female but I’ve heard it from both.
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I really love the “bo tak”. It’s so cute.
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That is adorable. And interesting.
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It’s the American pro-social and extraversion bias coming out in ways that propagandise the young …
And it’s so very, very weird.
You could put the idea in his head that he could practise routines to become a comedian.
Then he will be less likely to be manipulated by one pretty girl who doesn’t really laugh at his jokes as much as she needs a Joker to be her government approved mule.
(BTW, this appears to be the normal mode in Japan even now? That married men still sign over their pay packets only to receive a pitiful allowance from the wife? Government approved mule barely scratches it!)
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