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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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[-] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Dealing with potentially 100°F/38°C summers and sub 0°F/-18°C winters

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[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

New England: Staying upright on ice.

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[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

The ability open a glass bottle with a utensil instead of using a bottle opener.

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[-] Schaedelbach@feddit.de 21 points 1 year ago

Swimming. My brother in law is from India and he never learned how to swim due to him growing up in a place with only one extremely dirty river and no other lakes or swimming pools near his family. Apparently no one in his family can swim. He kinda can swim now but it still looks funny. A bit like I must have looked from the outside when I learned to swim - as a six years old. I always found this very odd because the dude is smart, hard working and has a degree but it took years and him becoming a dad to realize that swimming is something pretty much everyone can.

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[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago

Seperating Litter, I guess. Many dont do it correctly anyways, but its worse in other countries.

Speaking English I guess. Not the best, but better than in former eastern countries. But yeah, fuck colonialism, so not really a great thing.

Riding the bike. Everyone should do it, and shocking to see many other countries struggle with that even more.

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[-] Tehmains@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Canada BC specifically

The proper use of flushing toilets and bathroom etiquette

The industry I work in has many new Canadians and I believe they all need a crash course on this from the companies they are working for.

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[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How to order coffee, get what you want and keep the line moving without any needless human interaction.

I'm from Seattle and so many tourists want to chat up the barista. Go to the stripe and sip coffee stand for that. If you are ordering something that requires more than 10 words, use the app or be prepared to get something left off and move on. For the love of choice don't try to chat with some stranger in the line.

[-] manucode@infosec.pub 19 points 1 year ago

Humans generally don't want to interact with needles while waiting to get their coffee. Needles are pointy and can poke you.

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[-] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

How to dress for -30C weather. How to get out if you fall through ice into water.

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[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 18 points 1 year ago

Skiing is pretty much a must where I live

[-] brokenlcd@feddit.it 18 points 1 year ago

how to harvest produce, my town is surrounded from farmland, so we learned how to harvest everything from tomatoes to maize, from lemons to turnips

[-] ExLisper@linux.community 17 points 1 year ago

Clapping. Spaniards can clap, other people can't. I took me years to figure out what they mean when they say that foreigners can't clap and learn to do it properly.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Have Spaniards finally cracked the world's greatest mystery and learned how to produce the sound of one hand clapping?

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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

Sooooo you moved to live in the Netherlands, I assume? Awesome country, do enjoy!

And yes, swimming is a ver basic and required skill there as well

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[-] Anti_Weeb_Penguin@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Don't walk on dark places at night.

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[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Paying attention to the weather to know if rain or severe winds are coming. I know people have access to hourly forecasts but locals can just tell when the weather will be bad.

  • southern USA
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