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What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad? (kyu.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by aard@kyu.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I was thinking about that when I was dropping my 6 year old off at some hobbies earlier - it's pretty much expected to have learned how to ride a bicycle before starting school, and it massively expands the area you can go to by yourself. When she went to school by bicycle she can easily make a detour via a shop to spend some pocket money before coming home, while by foot that'd be rather time consuming.

Quite a lot of friends from outside of Europe either can't ride a bicycle, or were learning it as adult after moving here, though.

edit: the high number of replies mentioning "swimming" made me realize that I had that filed as a basic skill pretty much everybody has - probably due to swimming lessons being a mandatory part of school education here.

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[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I guess here in Korea it's eating with chopsticks. In Sweden it was Swimming (especially for my Indian work mates). In Germany it was opening a beer bottle with anything you just happened to have in your hand at that time. In Poland I'm not sure, but probably making those elaborate sandwiches for parties.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Is the chopstick thing a dexterity issue? I'm so more inclined for chopsticks that, if eating alone, I'll use the other ends of my silverware like chopsticks (and I'm not a part of any chopstick culture).

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, opening a beer (or other bottpe with a capped lid) is a very cool skill to have (one which I haven't really mastered since I drink beer very, very infrequently).

[–] BlueFairyPainter@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I feel that. Always makes me feel like a failed German lol

[–] MartinXYZ@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In Germany it was opening a beer bottle with anything you just happened to have in your hand at that time.

This goes for Denmark too.

[–] uberrice@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Used to be the case in Switzerland, now most beer bottles have a twist-to-open cap that still looks like a normal beer bottle cap.