r/AskTheWorld • • May 17 '26

Mandatory flair with immediate effect

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267 Upvotes

šŸ“¢ 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.

šŸ—³ļø 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.

šŸš€ 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 (ā€œMultiple Countries (click to edit)ā€) 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

šŸŽÆ Why this matters

A huge portion of questions here depend on cultural, legal, or regional context.
Without flair, people often have to ask ā€œWhere are you fromā€ before they can even answer, slowing down discussions and causing confusion.

Mandatory flair fixes that.

šŸ› ļø How to set your flair

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

It takes just a few seconds.

šŸ’¬ 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 • • 5h ago

Where?

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563 Upvotes

Where can a person own a home, raise children, have healthcare, and childcare, all on a fast food worker’s salary?


r/AskTheWorld • • 7h ago

Culture Twitter being Twitter

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278 Upvotes

Have you noticed one of these virtual fights?


r/AskTheWorld • • 20h ago

Is Your Nation's Contribution to the World Wars Truly Recognised?

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929 Upvotes

India contributed millions of soldiers to both World Wars, fighting across Europe, Africa and Asia under British rule. Yet, how much of their sacrifice is acknowledged in global history and popular culture? If soldiers from your country had made similar sacrifices, do you think the world would remember them differently?


r/AskTheWorld • • 7h ago

History What was your country’s most iconic speech?

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89 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 6h ago

Travel Are there any dumb but popular tourist attractions in your country?

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72 Upvotes

Australia has over 1000 "big things" around the country, mostly in regional and rural areas. Famous ones (pictured) include the Big Banana, the Big Merino and the Big Pineapple.

These big things remain oddly popular places to visit both for local and international tourists.


r/AskTheWorld • • 1h ago

Politics How do friends evaluate the anti-China incident where MbappƩ was Photoshopped into Mao Zedong?

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• Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld • • 9h ago

Politics People from outside Israel, how do you think another Netanyahu term could affect your country, if at all?

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75 Upvotes

Israel’s recent election seems likely to lead to coalition negotiations, and one possible outcome is Benjamin Netanyahu remaining prime minister. I’m not asking who people support, I’m curious how people in different countries think this could affect their own nation.

For example, would it affect your country’s diplomacy, security concerns, trade, energy prices, relations with Middle Eastern countries, migration, or public opinion? Or do you think it would make little practical difference where you live?


r/AskTheWorld • • 2h ago

Law Who is the most powerful/richest person from your country to ever be imprisoned? Bonus, who should have been, but got off?

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22 Upvotes

I've been pondering the future of Kushner, and also the current Bolsonaro situation.


r/AskTheWorld • • 14h ago

History In your opinion, what is the greatest contribution your country has made to human civilization? (Only one contribution)

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168 Upvotes

(Any contribution can be mentioned, whether it is scientific, cultural, military, political or anything else)

My answer: The unitary state. Egypt has made many contributions to human civilization, but in my opinion, the most important is the unitary state system, as historians consider ancient Egypt to be the first state with this system in history. Of course, it differed in many details from modern unitary systems, but the concept was the same.

The picture is of the Narmer Palette, from the 31st century BC. It depicts King Narmer (aka King Menes) waging a war to unite the north and south of ancient Egypt. On the other side of the palette, King Narmer is depicted celebrating victory.


r/AskTheWorld • • 4h ago

For women: How much do period products cost you per month in your country?

27 Upvotes

I’m from the Netherlands and personally spend only about €0.33 per month on tampons. I’m curious how much other women spend around the world.


r/AskTheWorld • • 6h ago

Do you have a minority in your country that is actually very powerful and can decide the outcome of political nominees?

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32 Upvotes

I noticed Latinos are very unrepresented, especially on an international basis. But they're the ones that can swing elections in the US, which subsequently affects the world.


r/AskTheWorld • • 13h ago

Culture How common is smoking still in your country?

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94 Upvotes

Mexico has implied a lot of new restrictions, so it's way way less common than it was pre-COVID.

However, it's still allowed in nightclubs and bars.


r/AskTheWorld • • 1h ago

Language Are there many words in your language that translate into English as two or more different words, while in your native language they are represented by just one word?

• Upvotes

In Russian, there is no distinction between the concepts of "kill" and "murder"—there is only one word, *ŃƒŠ±ŠøŠ¹ŃŃ‚Š²Š¾* (killing/murder). Honestly, I’m still not always sure which English word to use when translating, or why English makes such a distinction.


r/AskTheWorld • • 10h ago

Food What ā€œfake foreignā€ foods does your country have?

39 Upvotes

I’m in the US so I think we probably have more than most countries, but I’m wondering what other ones have. Here, the most famous ā€œItalianā€ food is probably spaghetti and meatballs, and general tsos chicken for Chinese. We also see tikki masala as Indian but I think it’s actually English. Do people in England think of that as Indian food too? Can you get general tsos sauce in any other country? Anything else?


r/AskTheWorld • • 19h ago

Culture How common is for an average person to suddenly go homeless ,in your country?

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179 Upvotes

It's shocking and sad to read instances of people having a job and roof over their head to suddenly going homeless.

Like people actually having to live on the streets ,while they were living in a home a few days back.

Even though I am still from a developing nation , and people here are unemployed and lose thier jobs as well, but the instances of having to live on the streets , asking for help from strangers is less. Like maybe thier extended family or friend let them stay .

Like not talking about people living in actual poverty but ,those who were doing fine some time back and then suddenly they have to sleep and sit on the street exposed to the harsh environments.

Are those laws which are like say people living in your home for some time ,you can't remove them easily even if they turn hostile- contribute to it .

What factors play a role in this ?


r/AskTheWorld • • 4h ago

Culture For those of you dressing up for halloween, what are you going as?

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11 Upvotes

i’m going out as Liam Gallagher one night and Stu from the hangover part 2 another. What about you guys?


r/AskTheWorld • • 7h ago

Sports is it harder to hit a pitch in cricket or baseball?

20 Upvotes

this is trending on twitter again so I wanted to hear some oppinions


r/AskTheWorld • • 14h ago

Politics Are there other examples of king maker states that heavily influence an ellection?

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49 Upvotes

Aka. Minas Gerais


r/AskTheWorld • • 10h ago

Culture In Which countries Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill duo spagetthi Westerns films were popular?

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22 Upvotes

Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill weren't they real names. They were Italians who took these english stage names, so they name will be more marketable for international audience. In Lithuania these guys spagetthi western movies are not popular or known at all. But i believe they may have popularity in other countries. I believe in US, they are completely unknown actors and they films are not known in US, except maybe for diehard Western fans.

So question, in which countries these duo spagetthi Western movies were very popular?


r/AskTheWorld • • 16h ago

What is this fruit called in your country?

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54 Upvotes

Have you ever tired it?

In India, it’s called Karonda.

It tastes very sour when it’s unripe.

Edit: from seeing the comments it looks like it’s not famous.


r/AskTheWorld • • 22h ago

Is there a "The Onion" style satirical newspaper in your country?

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146 Upvotes

In Italy, there's Lercio, parody of the newspaper Leggo. In this article, Minister of Transport Salvini is reported asking "Who is the incompetent asshole serving as Minister of Transport?"


r/AskTheWorld • • 11h ago

Interesting Is there a well known person in your country who isn't just not from your country, but isn't even from your continent?

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18 Upvotes

At least in Croatia, i can think of at least 2 people:

1st pic - Rakan Rushaidat

Most known for his role as adult Simba in The Lion King animated movies and the Timon and Pumbaa show, as well as Bolt from Disney's Bolt, was born in Jordan

2nd pic - Daniel Dizdar

This guy played:

*breathes in*

Bugs Bunny in Coyote vs. ACME

Capper from the 2017 MLP movie

Spongebob Squarepants and Squidward Tentacles In the Spongebob movies and the show since 2011

Toad from the the new Super Mario Bros. Movies

Dr. Drakken in Kim Possible

Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz in Phineas and Ferb

And most impressively,

Kai, Master Wu, Jay's dad, Master Chen, Dareth and Dr. Julien from LEGO Ninjago

was born in Chicago


r/AskTheWorld • • 4h ago

Do you find random working lighters all over the place

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5 Upvotes

If not lighters, what do you commonly find that’s not strictly trash? Maybe these aren’t common, but I’m sure there’s probably other things that are commonly discarded without actually being litter in your country. For example, where I live it is very common to see old barbecues, sometimes still with propane tanks, out on the curb to be taken for free as well as bicycles. I once actually got a free pool table that way because the previous owner made things worse trying to fix it.

I find lighters, seemingly lost, all the time. I’m still waiting to find a random street zippo but my friend found one. The two of the top are actually jet torches most likely for meth, as the bigger one can actually make the pipe, or so I’m told. A lot of people smoke cigarettes, a lot of people smoke weed and other things. There’s also a lot of homeless that tend to misplaced things. Is this something a person might lose in your country and not care to look for or they’re just not a lot of people who smoke things in public, or do services clean up better where you live? To be fair, I find a lot of these gardening so I would be that service cleaning up. Why or why not do you think people lose these where you are? I find it kind of funny. The only thing more likely to get stolen than a big lighter is a big pen or a carpenters pencil. You set a carpenters pencil down anywhere or you don’t show up to work one day all your carpenters pencils will be gone. It doesn’t matter how many you bought. Carpenters pencils are only $0.20 but you’d think they were made of gold.


r/AskTheWorld • • 15h ago

Language How are these called in your country?

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42 Upvotes

In Romania they are called "scorușe" and they look like tiny pears and the size of a grape.