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Monocultural Countries, where a great majority of the population comes from a single ethnic group

  1. Armenia - 98% ethnic Armenian
  2. North Korea - 99.998% ethnic Korean
  3. Iceland - 93% ethnic Icelandic
  4. Guinea-Conakry - 99.1% African tribal ethnicity.
  5. Tunisia - 98% self-identify as “Arabs”
  6. Japan- 98.5% ethnic Japanese
  7. China - 91.51% Han Chinese
  8. Rwanda - 85% Hutu before the Tutsi genocide of the 90s
  9. Tajikistan - 84% Tajik
  10. Portugal - 96.3% Portuguese
  11. Haiti - probably >99% African slave ancestry
  12. Greenland - 88% Greenlandic Inuit
  13. Finland - 96.1% Finnish

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Personal tradition you observe

  1. Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. The wife and I have shared Chinese food every NYE since we met 35 years ago.

Personal tradition you observe

  1. Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. The wife and I have shared Chinese food every NYE since we met 35 years ago.
  2. 3-in-1. My husband and I have the same birthday (20 years apart) … which is also our wedding anniversary; our first will be in 2 weeks.

Personal tradition you observe

  1. Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. The wife and I have shared Chinese food every NYE since we met 35 years ago.
  2. 3-in-1. My husband and I have the same birthday (20 years apart) … which is also our wedding anniversary; our first will be in 2 weeks.
  3. 2-in-1 but not on the day itself. My birthday is on Valentine’s Day but we never eat out on that day. (We tried once, too long a wait). We celebrate within a few days.

Personal tradition you observe

  1. Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. The wife and I have shared Chinese food every NYE since we met 35 years ago.
  2. 3-in-1. My husband and I have the same birthday (20 years apart) … which is also our wedding anniversary; our first will be in 2 weeks.
  3. 2-in-1 but not on the day itself. My birthday is on Valentine’s Day but we never eat out on that day. (We tried once, too long a wait). We celebrate within a few days.
  4. Every year on New Year’s Eve we rent two movies (one light, one serious), and watch them with beef soup and Toll House cookies. We’ve done this for more years than I can count.

Personal tradition you observe

  1. Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. The wife and I have shared Chinese food every NYE since we met 35 years ago.
  2. 3-in-1. My husband and I have the same birthday (20 years apart) … which is also our wedding anniversary; our first will be in 2 weeks.
  3. 2-in-1 but not on the day itself. My birthday is on Valentine’s Day but we never eat out on that day. (We tried once, too long a wait). We celebrate within a few days.
  4. Every year on New Year’s Eve we rent two movies (one light, one serious), and watch them with beef soup and Toll House cookies. We’ve done this for more years than I can count.
  5. For the past three years, I have worked in a store that sells animal hats attached to long scarfs with hand warmers on the end. Every year I buy a different one (wolf because it was so stately, frog because it was so ridiculous, and ladybug because it was so cute).

Personal tradition you observe

  1. Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. The wife and I have shared Chinese food every NYE since we met 35 years ago.
  2. 3-in-1. My husband and I have the same birthday (20 years apart) … which is also our wedding anniversary; our first will be in 2 weeks.
  3. 2-in-1 but not on the day itself. My birthday is on Valentine’s Day but we never eat out on that day. (We tried once, too long a wait). We celebrate within a few days.
  4. Every year on New Year’s Eve we rent two movies (one light, one serious), and watch them with beef soup and Toll House cookies. We’ve done this for more years than I can count.
  5. For the past three years, I have worked in a store that sells animal hats attached to long scarfs with hand warmers on the end. Every year I buy a different one (wolf because it was so stately, frog because it was so ridiculous, and ladybug because it was so cute).
  6. Once a week I send my parents a handwritten letter.

Personal tradition you observe

  1. Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. The wife and I have shared Chinese food every NYE since we met 35 years ago.
  2. 3-in-1. My husband and I have the same birthday (20 years apart) … which is also our wedding anniversary; our first will be in 2 weeks.
  3. 2-in-1 but not on the day itself. My birthday is on Valentine’s Day but we never eat out on that day. (We tried once, too long a wait). We celebrate within a few days.
  4. Every year on New Year’s Eve we rent two movies (one light, one serious), and watch them with beef soup and Toll House cookies. We’ve done this for more years than I can count.
  5. For the past three years, I have worked in a store that sells animal hats attached to long scarfs with hand warmers on the end. Every year I buy a different one (wolf because it was so stately, frog because it was so ridiculous, and ladybug because it was so cute).
  6. Once a week I send my parents a handwritten letter.
  7. A close friend’s birthday is the day before mine. We celebrating by each selecting something we want (book, CD, whatever) and handing it to the other to pay for, and then exchange “gifts”

Personal tradition you observe

  1. Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. The wife and I have shared Chinese food every NYE since we met 35 years ago.
  2. 3-in-1. My husband and I have the same birthday (20 years apart) … which is also our wedding anniversary; our first will be in 2 weeks.
  3. 2-in-1 but not on the day itself. My birthday is on Valentine’s Day but we never eat out on that day. (We tried once, too long a wait). We celebrate within a few days.
  4. Every year on New Year’s Eve we rent two movies (one light, one serious), and watch them with beef soup and Toll House cookies. We’ve done this for more years than I can count.
  5. For the past three years, I have worked in a store that sells animal hats attached to long scarfs with hand warmers on the end. Every year I buy a different one (wolf because it was so stately, frog because it was so ridiculous, and ladybug because it was so cute).
  6. Once a week I send my parents a handwritten letter.
  7. A close friend’s birthday is the day before mine. We celebrating by each selecting something we want (book, CD, whatever) and handing it to the other to pay for, and then exchange “gifts”
  8. In their Christmas Eve stockings, Santa brings our sons exactly as many bright, shiny new pennies as their age (ten years old = ten pennies).

Personal tradition you observe

  1. Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. The wife and I have shared Chinese food every NYE since we met 35 years ago.
  2. 3-in-1. My husband and I have the same birthday (20 years apart) … which is also our wedding anniversary; our first will be in 2 weeks.
  3. 2-in-1 but not on the day itself. My birthday is on Valentine’s Day but we never eat out on that day. (We tried once, too long a wait). We celebrate within a few days.
  4. Every year on New Year’s Eve we rent two movies (one light, one serious), and watch them with beef soup and Toll House cookies. We’ve done this for more years than I can count.
  5. For the past three years, I have worked in a store that sells animal hats attached to long scarfs with hand warmers on the end. Every year I buy a different one (wolf because it was so stately, frog because it was so ridiculous, and ladybug because it was so cute).
  6. Once a week I send my parents a handwritten letter.
  7. A close friend’s birthday is the day before mine. We celebrating by each selecting something we want (book, CD, whatever) and handing it to the other to pay for, and then exchange “gifts”
  8. In their Christmas Eve stockings, Santa brings our sons exactly as many bright, shiny new pennies as their age (ten years old = ten pennies).
  9. Hubby and I do a little celebration for “Peppy’s Birthday”, the birthday of his childhood dog as well as the day we got engaged.

Personal tradition you observe

  1. Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. The wife and I have shared Chinese food every NYE since we met 35 years ago.
  2. 3-in-1. My husband and I have the same birthday (20 years apart) … which is also our wedding anniversary; our first will be in 2 weeks.
  3. 2-in-1 but not on the day itself. My birthday is on Valentine’s Day but we never eat out on that day. (We tried once, too long a wait). We celebrate within a few days.
  4. Every year on New Year’s Eve we rent two movies (one light, one serious), and watch them with beef soup and Toll House cookies. We’ve done this for more years than I can count.
  5. For the past three years, I have worked in a store that sells animal hats attached to long scarfs with hand warmers on the end. Every year I buy a different one (wolf because it was so stately, frog because it was so ridiculous, and ladybug because it was so cute).
  6. Once a week I send my parents a handwritten letter.
  7. A close friend’s birthday is the day before mine. We celebrating by each selecting something we want (book, CD, whatever) and handing it to the other to pay for, and then exchange “gifts”
  8. In their Christmas Eve stockings, Santa brings our sons exactly as many bright, shiny new pennies as their age (ten years old = ten pennies).
  9. Hubby and I do a little celebration for “Peppy’s Birthday”, the birthday of his childhood dog as well as the day we got engaged.
  10. Sunday mornings, I cook a proper breakfast. Including coffee, which I normally have when I go to the rental office to check my mail, and the only distinction Sunday has for me is that the office is closed.

Personal tradition you observe

  1. Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. The wife and I have shared Chinese food every NYE since we met 35 years ago.
  2. 3-in-1. My husband and I have the same birthday (20 years apart) … which is also our wedding anniversary; our first will be in 2 weeks.
  3. 2-in-1 but not on the day itself. My birthday is on Valentine’s Day but we never eat out on that day. (We tried once, too long a wait). We celebrate within a few days.
  4. Every year on New Year’s Eve we rent two movies (one light, one serious), and watch them with beef soup and Toll House cookies. We’ve done this for more years than I can count.
  5. For the past three years, I have worked in a store that sells animal hats attached to long scarfs with hand warmers on the end. Every year I buy a different one (wolf because it was so stately, frog because it was so ridiculous, and ladybug because it was so cute).
  6. Once a week I send my parents a handwritten letter.
  7. A close friend’s birthday is the day before mine. We celebrating by each selecting something we want (book, CD, whatever) and handing it to the other to pay for, and then exchange “gifts”
  8. In their Christmas Eve stockings, Santa brings our sons exactly as many bright, shiny new pennies as their age (ten years old = ten pennies).
  9. Hubby and I do a little celebration for “Peppy’s Birthday”, the birthday of his childhood dog as well as the day we got engaged.
  10. Sunday mornings, I cook a proper breakfast. Including coffee, which I normally have when I go to the rental office to check my mail, and the only distinction Sunday has for me is that the office is closed.
  11. On September 19th (tomorrow) I awaken with a sneer on my face and an Arrr! in me throat, as it’s Talk Like A Pirate Day. My family tries to keep up, but they fade around noon, savvy?

Personal tradition you observe

  1. Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. The wife and I have shared Chinese food every NYE since we met 35 years ago.
  2. 3-in-1. My husband and I have the same birthday (20 years apart) … which is also our wedding anniversary; our first will be in 2 weeks.
  3. 2-in-1 but not on the day itself. My birthday is on Valentine’s Day but we never eat out on that day. (We tried once, too long a wait). We celebrate within a few days.
  4. Every year on New Year’s Eve we rent two movies (one light, one serious), and watch them with beef soup and Toll House cookies. We’ve done this for more years than I can count.
  5. For the past three years, I have worked in a store that sells animal hats attached to long scarfs with hand warmers on the end. Every year I buy a different one (wolf because it was so stately, frog because it was so ridiculous, and ladybug because it was so cute).
  6. Once a week I send my parents a handwritten letter.
  7. A close friend’s birthday is the day before mine. We celebrating by each selecting something we want (book, CD, whatever) and handing it to the other to pay for, and then exchange “gifts”
  8. In their Christmas Eve stockings, Santa brings our sons exactly as many bright, shiny new pennies as their age (ten years old = ten pennies).
  9. Hubby and I do a little celebration for “Peppy’s Birthday”, the birthday of his childhood dog as well as the day we got engaged.
  10. Sunday mornings, I cook a proper breakfast. Including coffee, which I normally have when I go to the rental office to check my mail, and the only distinction Sunday has for me is that the office is closed.
  11. On September 19th (tomorrow) I awaken with a sneer on my face and an Arrr! in me throat, as it’s Talk Like A Pirate Day. My family tries to keep up, but they fade around noon, savvy?
  12. Everyone in our house gets the birthday dinner of his or her choice.

Personal tradition you observe

  1. Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. The wife and I have shared Chinese food every NYE since we met 35 years ago.
  2. 3-in-1. My husband and I have the same birthday (20 years apart) … which is also our wedding anniversary; our first will be in 2 weeks.
  3. 2-in-1 but not on the day itself. My birthday is on Valentine’s Day but we never eat out on that day. (We tried once, too long a wait). We celebrate within a few days.
  4. Every year on New Year’s Eve we rent two movies (one light, one serious), and watch them with beef soup and Toll House cookies. We’ve done this for more years than I can count.
  5. For the past three years, I have worked in a store that sells animal hats attached to long scarfs with hand warmers on the end. Every year I buy a different one (wolf because it was so stately, frog because it was so ridiculous, and ladybug because it was so cute).
  6. Once a week I send my parents a handwritten letter.
  7. A close friend’s birthday is the day before mine. We celebrating by each selecting something we want (book, CD, whatever) and handing it to the other to pay for, and then exchange “gifts”
  8. In their Christmas Eve stockings, Santa brings our sons exactly as many bright, shiny new pennies as their age (ten years old = ten pennies).
  9. Hubby and I do a little celebration for “Peppy’s Birthday”, the birthday of his childhood dog as well as the day we got engaged.
  10. Sunday mornings, I cook a proper breakfast. Including coffee, which I normally have when I go to the rental office to check my mail, and the only distinction Sunday has for me is that the office is closed.
  11. On September 19th (tomorrow) I awaken with a sneer on my face and an Arrr! in me throat, as it’s Talk Like A Pirate Day. My family tries to keep up, but they fade around noon, savvy?
  12. Everyone in our house gets the birthday dinner of his or her choice.
  13. August 22, a date with significance in my family, is a personal ancestor worship day of sorts. (I combine some traditions by lighting Yahrzeit candles and leaving shots of bourbon under pictures among other things; to date I’m glad to say none of the bourbon has been missing when I came back.)

A food you recently tried for the first time and now know you can’t stand

  1. Roast seaweed
    Tastes like a fish ate it it first, and then died miserably.

I’m very flexible on the meaning of “recently”.

A food you recently tried for the first time and now know you can’t stand

  1. Roast seaweed
  2. Macrobiotic bread

A food you recently tried for the first time and now know you can’t stand

  1. Roast seaweed
  2. Rice and fish . . .

. . . at Wafi Gourmet, in Dubai Airport. Freebie for Emirates passengers with long layovers. Fish was probably talapia, and rice tastelessly fried in too much grease.

A food you recently tried for the first time and now know you can’t stand

  1. Roast seaweed
  2. Rice and fish . . .
  3. Foie gras

A food you recently tried for the first time and now know you can’t stand

  1. Roast seaweed
  2. Rice and fish . . .
  3. Foie gras
  4. Liverwurst

A food you recently tried for the first time and now know you can’t stand

  1. Roast seaweed
  2. Macrobiotic bread
  3. Rice and fish . . .
  4. Foie gras
  5. Liverwurst
    (Amended to include Elendil’s Heir’s answer)

A food you recently tried for the first time and now know you can’t stand

  1. Roast seaweed
  2. Macrobiotic bread
  3. Rice and fish . . .
  4. Foie gras
  5. Liverwurst
  6. Creme brulee