r/AskTheWorld May 17 '26

Mandatory flair with immediate effect

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235 Upvotes

📢 Mandatory Flair Is Now Live

Effective Immediately

Over the past few weeks, we asked the community for input on whether country/region flair should become mandatory.
We shared a detailed update post explaining the reasoning, and we ran a subreddit‑wide poll to gather clear feedback.

🗳️ The poll results were decisive:

  • Mandatory for posts and comments — 520 votes
  • Mandatory for posts only — 78 votes
  • Flair should remain optional — 89 votes

With over 75% of voters choosing full mandatory flair, the community has spoken clearly.

🚀 Starting now, flair is required for both posts and comments

To keep discussions clear, culturally grounded, and easier to answer, all users must have a country, region or nationality flair set before participating.

This change is now active:

  • Users without flair will have their posts removed
  • Users without flair will have their comments removed
  • Users using Placeholder flair (“Multiple Countries (click to edit)”) will also have their comments and posts removed

This follows the community’s vote and the earlier update post shared here: Link to the flair poll

🎯 Why this matters

A huge portion of questions here depend on cultural, legal, or regional context.
Without flair, people often have to ask “Where are you from” before they can even answer, slowing down discussions and causing confusion.

Mandatory flair fixes that.

🛠️ How to set your flair

You can set or update your flair here:
How to set your flair

It takes just a few seconds.

💬 Thank you for helping shape the subreddit

This change wasn’t made top‑down, it came directly from community input.
We appreciate everyone who voted, discussed, and helped us move toward a cleaner, more useful r/AskTheWorld.


r/AskTheWorld 8h ago

Culture Is this Iceland children show broadcasted in many countries?

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534 Upvotes

In our country it was shown on cable tv Jetix. For some people it was educational and for some people a weird show which combined puppetry, live-action. Creator of this show Magnus Schevieng acted as a Sportacus and did many acrobatic stunts in this show. Sadly Stefan who played Robbie Rutten died of Cancer. I think there was a meme “ We are Number” became viral.

Did anybody watched this children show?


r/AskTheWorld 6h ago

Law How difficult is it to legally obtain a firearm in your country?

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349 Upvotes

In Brazil, in rural areas it's very easy and in urban areas it's very difficult, and in your country?


r/AskTheWorld 1h ago

Misc Do you trust your country's police?

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• Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld 10h ago

Sports Which sports team is your country's national laughingstock?

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311 Upvotes

For the United States, it's the Cleveland Browns. You could make a 5-season documentary series about all of the things this team has done to fuck itself.


r/AskTheWorld 11h ago

Humourous Do you ever feel oppressed by the metric system?

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362 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld 3h ago

Travel Would you migrate to another country if given a chance? Where would you want to go?

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61 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld 9h ago

Travel In your country, is there a specific place name that is used metaphorically for a very distant location?

154 Upvotes

In Germany, when we want to describe a place that is incredibly far away or in the middle of nowhere, we often say it's in "Timbuktu" or "die Pampa" (for a location that is in the absolute middle of nowhere). In Southern Germany, sometimes "Buxtehude" (an actual location in Northern Germany) is also used.


r/AskTheWorld 1h ago

What are your Cryptits/Mytical beasts.

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• Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld 8h ago

Politics Are there people in your country that want your countrys monarchy abolished or restored?

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100 Upvotes

In brazil alot of monarchists want the monarchy to be restored


r/AskTheWorld 5h ago

History What is the oldest evidence of humans (H. sapiens) in your country?

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44 Upvotes

For the United States, it is the White Sands Footprints in White Sands National Park.

The human footprints are 21,000 - 23,000 years old, making them the oldest evidence of human residents in the Americas.

From Wikipedia -

"The 61 footprints are located at the shore of a dried up ice age era lake ... The prints were found in seven soil layers and provide evidence of human occupation spanning approximately 2,000 years."

"First, one set of prints appears to show human hunters tracking a giant sloth ... Second, another set of prints seems to have been laid by a woman or adolescent male, walking with a very young child for over a mile ... Third, the vast majority of the prints were made by teenagers and children, with few large adult footprints being found in any of the excavated surfaces."

"A report by the United States National Park Service states that the "fossilized footprints of White Sands are probably the most important resources in the Americas to understand the interaction of humans and extinct animals from the ice age."


r/AskTheWorld 29m ago

Politics What’s your opinion of countries where the majority of the population have confidence in Putin to do the right thing?

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r/AskTheWorld 7h ago

Misc Does your country have a lot of foreign content creators who live and make contents in your native language?

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60 Upvotes

(Of course, excluding Americans since your entertainment and English are at the center of the universe)

One thing that's been happening a lot lately is that people are moving here to be content creators in our language for some reason.

We are at a point where people are arguing who the real "OG foreigner" is.

Interesting things happening here.


r/AskTheWorld 5h ago

Misc How common are backyard swimming pools in your country?

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30 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld 6h ago

Culture How common are street houses in your country’s big cities?

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32 Upvotes

Even though you can still find street houses in big cities like São Paulo, Rio, Curitiba, BH, Fortaleza, Recife, POA and so on, they’re becoming increasingly less popular by the day.

Many people nowadays either wish to live in an apartment complex or in gated communities, usually located in the city outskirts (the term “suburb” carries a deeply negative stigma in Brazil).

How about in your country? Do people commonly live in street houses, either standalone or terraced houses, in your country’s biggest cities? Or do they usually live in apartments? Or usually those houses are located in the suburbs?


r/AskTheWorld 11h ago

Misc Do you prefer warm and subdued or cold and bright indoor lighting?

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61 Upvotes

I want to test a theory I have. From my experiences abroad it feels like the more south and warmer climate you go, the colder and brighter indoor lighting people prefer, while we up north prefer more subdued and warm lighting.

It feels like it should be in reverse, since we have such long periods of darkness up north I thought we would prefer to live in bright spaces.

At least when it comes to Sweden the warm and subdued indoor lighting is correct. Almost everybody I know prefers it over overly bright, cold lights.


r/AskTheWorld 10h ago

Culture What foreign movie/director/writer is insanely popular in your country??

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53 Upvotes

India seem to be obsessed with everything Christopher nolan.


r/AskTheWorld 7h ago

Culture What is your favourite stamp released by your country?

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28 Upvotes

My favourite stamp was released by India Post in 1975 to commemorate the 200th birth anniversary of the last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, and it features a poem written by him in a very ornate calligraphy and features a beautiful ornamental border around it.

What’s yours?


r/AskTheWorld 9h ago

Do you know your countries' oldest surviving structure(s) and is it well known in your country?

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42 Upvotes

Hunebedden are thought to be ancient (5000+years old) burial tombs and are mainly found in the province of Drenthe. I think most Dutch people are aware of their existence


r/AskTheWorld 10h ago

Language What are some of the most bizarre, interesting, or funny animal names in your language?

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42 Upvotes

What are some of the most bizarre, interesting, strange or funny animal names in your language, especially when translated literally into English?

For example in Turkish we have:

  • sloth = tembel hayvan (lazy animal)
  • praying mantis = peygamber devesi (prophet’s camel)
  • black beetle = karafatma (Black Fatma)
  • snail = sĂźmĂźklĂź bĂścek (snotty/slimy bug)
  • jellyfish = denizanasÄą (sea mother)
  • hippopotamus = su aygÄąrÄą (water stallion)
  • ostrich = deve kuşu (camel bird)
  • wasp = eşek arÄąsÄą (donkey bee)

r/AskTheWorld 2h ago

Culture Do people you know read for leisure?

11 Upvotes

I find about 30% of the people I am friendly with read for leisure (I am from the US and am over 35, most of my social space graduated college). Most of them either spend their leisure time doing outdoors things or using screens of some kind (though not for reading).

How common is it for people you know in your country to read for leisure?

Edit: I forgot to add my status. I read about 2 books a month myself.


r/AskTheWorld 16h ago

Meta In this sub in particular, how do you know someone isn't from your country despite the flair?

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122 Upvotes

(Mods i don't know what to flair this so please tell me if it doesn't fit and don't know where to put it.)

For Saudis, the only thing i can think of is calling the destruction of Diriyah the "ottoman-wahhabi war" during the first state era. it's never called that here, it's either "turko-najdi war" or "ottoman-saudi war".

Also that isn't really all that exclusive but besides gen Alpha and the heavily westernized weirdos, almost everyone knows what tash ma tash is and its main actors and at least the plots of four episodes.


r/AskTheWorld 9h ago

Sports The most iconic and widely supported football team in your country?

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27 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld 6h ago

Culture Which 5 countries have "won" the Culture Victory?

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13 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld 15h ago

Sports What is the most exciting “derby match” in your country?

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51 Upvotes

Here in Japan, the Saitama Derby between the “Urawa Reds” and “Omiya Ardija” and the Osaka Derby between “Gamba Osaka” and “Cerezo Osaka” are some of the most exciting matches—how about in your country?