Today's Interesting Culture Differences (Big 3)

1) Driver's license in Mexico
Today, my teacher said "Do you know? In mexico, you don't need to pass a test for driver's license. If you want driver's license, you only pay money!!". When I heard that I was very surprised and striken, because Mexico city is very big and busy city that includes 17,800,000 people and loads of cars, morterbikes, etc... It's terrible, right? Do you want to drive in Mexico city?

2) 15 year-old Big Party (only for women) in Latin America
There are 5 Latin American in my class. According to them, 15 year-old birthday is a very important day for women because a girl becomes a lady in the particular day. Most of them take place a big birthday party called "Princess Party" for 15 year-old girl. In the day, a princess can eat anything she wants, dance with anybody she wants, etc.. It's a great custom. I could think "I'm very happy because I'm a female!", if I was born in Latin America.. :-)

3) Wisdom Teeth
In Japan, we call wisdom teeth "Oyashirazu = the teeth never known one's parents". It means that your parents had already died when your wisdome teeth came out. In ancient Japan, the life of human was very short, so they called wisdom teeth "Oyashirazu". Anyway, in Japan, a dentist recommends us removing our wisdom teeth. I don't know why, but I removed all of my wisdom teeth, and I think most of Japanese did too. In Canada, they never mind their wisdom teeth; besides they treasure their wisdom teeth (because these teeth are wisdoms?). It's very interesting, isn't it? Same kind of doctors recommend complete opposite things in two countries.

It is very interesting to find culture differences from mundane daily talkings. Don't you think so?