What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?

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Anonymous wrote:I never realized Hispanic people were not considered “white”.

Had you ever taken a standardized test and had to choose a race? White & Hispanic are always separate options

Not true. Hispanics can be white, black, etc. it’s an ethnicity not a race.

My friend whose parents were born in Germany can have her kids check Hispanic because she was born in Brazil.

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I only recently learned that the cap of ointments (especially prescription) have a plastic point because you’re supposed to use that to pierce the metal cap on the tube. I e always tried to stab it with scissors to open it.

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Anonymous wrote:That realtor is not pronounced "real-uh-tor"

How do you pronounce it?

Real - ter.

or maybe

Ree-ul-ter.

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Anonymous wrote:Despite both being Christian, white people and black people don't go to the same churches

Nor do they use the same funeral services. Found this out when my white father died and used a black funeral home. His family from rural VA was surprised, to say the least.

Yes, to all of the above, and we sing our gospel songs differently. We yell obnoxiously and dance everywhere, our white Christian believers like Christian rock. But my eyes are opened to the entire world of Christian music now, thanks to the internet and not being limited to Southern Baptist churches where everyone gets the holy ghost and starts sweating at 12:30PM.

- A black Christian

Not all black Christians are Protestants. You were this many days old when you found that out.

Wait what? Did I miss the Protestant part?

They can be Catholic. A Protestant is a non Catholic Christian.

Pp here, my dad was black catholic, mom was black southern baptist

There are also thousands of Ethiopian Christians in this area. They are both non-Catholic and non-Protestant. It’s an ancient Orthodox form of Christianity.

The Ethiopian Orthodox church is in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church. Therefore, it is part of the Catholic Church.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Catholic_Church

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I never understood Kay Jewelers jingle; "Every Kiss beings with Kay" but "kiss" does indeed begin with the letter (K).

Clever, Kay Jewelers!

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Anonymous wrote:I never realized Hispanic people were not considered “white”.

Had you ever taken a standardized test and had to choose a race? White & Hispanic are always separate options

Not true. Hispanics can be white, black, etc. it’s an ethnicity not a race.

My friend whose parents were born in Germany can have her kids check Hispanic because she was born in Brazil.

No, they are not Hispanic. Brazilians are not Hispanic...they speak Portuguese

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I didn’t know the song “Midnight Train to Georgia” was about sex until today. DH won’t stop laughing.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t know the song “Midnight Train to Georgia” was about sex until today. DH won’t stop laughing.

Whut? No.

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Anonymous wrote:Despite both being Christian, white people and black people don't go to the same churches

Nor do they use the same funeral services. Found this out when my white father died and used a black funeral home. His family from rural VA was surprised, to say the least.

Yes, to all of the above, and we sing our gospel songs differently. We yell obnoxiously and dance everywhere, our white Christian believers like Christian rock. But my eyes are opened to the entire world of Christian music now, thanks to the internet and not being limited to Southern Baptist churches where everyone gets the holy ghost and starts sweating at 12:30PM.

- A black Christian

Not all black Christians are Protestants. You were this many days old when you found that out.

Wait what? Did I miss the Protestant part?

They can be Catholic. A Protestant is a non Catholic Christian.

Pp here, my dad was black catholic, mom was black southern baptist

There are also thousands of Ethiopian Christians in this area. They are both non-Catholic and non-Protestant. It’s an ancient Orthodox form of Christianity.

The Ethiopian Orthodox church is in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church. Therefore, it is part of the Catholic Church.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Catholic_Church

There are two different Ethiopian Orthodox churches. One is and one is not.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t know the song “Midnight Train to Georgia” was about sex until today. DH won’t stop laughing.

Cite? I can't find anything on that.

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Anonymous wrote:That realtor is not pronounced "real-uh-tor"

How do you pronounce it?

Ree-uhl-tor How it's spelled

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Anonymous wrote:I never realized Hispanic people were not considered “white”.

Had you ever taken a standardized test and had to choose a race? White & Hispanic are always separate options

Not true. Hispanics can be white, black, etc. it’s an ethnicity not a race.

My friend whose parents were born in Germany can have her kids check Hispanic because she was born in Brazil.

Yeah, no! Illegal. Lying. If she does this on FAFSA, it is a federal offense.

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Anonymous wrote:That you are supposed to give a hostess gift when you go to someone's house. I grew up middle class, and the only people we ever entertained were lower middle class family.

I learned this in college. Extremely embarrassing.

I'm fifty and just learned this right now. None of my middle class / lower middle class family and friends did this

Isn’t this just done when one is hosting a party?

No. When someone invites us over, we take a bottle of wine, a six pack of beer, some cookies, whatever. My DD has a friend who brings over a snack every time they have a playdate, I think it's great of her parents to teach her such good manners at an early age, we've started doing it too - either a snack or a craft.

I grew up solidly middle class and our family friends were of a varied socioeconomic group, this was always the case. I grew up in the midwest, so perhaps that's why. In my opinion, people are more polite, generous, and mindful of others in the Midwest.

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Anonymous wrote:That Jews are not considered white. I was born in the hood and actually never knew anyone Jewish or at least no one that said “I’m Jewish” until I was about 38 years old. I wasn’t educated on the anything about Jewish culture or even the Holocaust. I never understood why Jews would say they were discriminated against, because to me they looked white. I was really ignorant to all things Jewish until my then 7 year old DD starting learning about it the Holocaust in school. I felt pretty stupid. But it was never anything I was taught about.

Oh my gosh. Would you share your age and where you grew up?

This PP is confused. Judaism is a religion, most Jews also consider it an ethnicity, but it is not a race. I know caucasian, south asian, and chinese Jews.

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Many people in this country do not have a daily BM in the morning. They do not have the concept of "regularity" and will poop only once every couple days or more, at no fixed time.