• YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    5 个月前

    No, it’s just one of the usual questions people ask to allow others to introduce themselves. Unless I’m in terrible pain and in the middle of nowhere and you’re a doctor, what immediate use could I have of you? 🤷

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      5 个月前

      It’s just a US American thing. It is a question less frequently asked when traveling abroad. Many Europeans and South Americans have mentioned it to me over the years as a reliable way to ‘spot the American’.

      Our culture is broken and we are widely considered to be gauche and rude by others in the world.

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        5 个月前

        In The Netherlands this is pretry common as well, heck in even abroad I have been asked the question