social norms

Photo credit: Canva – Scandinavian countries find certain things rude that are perfectly acceptable elsewhere.

Culture, Pop Culture

Woman from Denmark shares ‘normal’ things that are considered rude in Nordic countries

Annie Reneau

7/5/2026
Daniel Hatoum (left) and Sarah Chen with son Mills (right)

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Culture

Meet the second-generation immigrants who are helping protect your civil rights.

Sarah Watts

7/8/2026
Photo credit: Canva – A German man explains why smiling at strangers in public is weird in Germany

Culture, Identity

German man picks apart the American habit of smiling at strangers in the most German way

Jacalyn Wetzel

7/1/2026
Photo credit: Canva – Modern communication can be a lot.

Friendship, Joy

Man jokes he’ll do anything for his friends except reply to their texts, launching debate

Annie Reneau

12/8/2025
Photo credit: Canva – Some couples choose to have no alcohol served at their wedding. It's an issue for some people.

Community, Joy

No booze at all? As more people go alcohol-free, debates over dry weddings heat up.

Annie Reneau

7/7/2025
Photo credit: Photo by lil artsy/Pexels – People used to just light up wherever and whenever they pleased.

Education, History (Education), Popular

Gen Xers and Boomers share things that used to be ‘normal’ but are ‘boundary crossing’ today

Annie Reneau

3/6/2025
Photo credit: Photo cropped from Facebook page. – Everyone eats sexualized or not.

Family, Motherhood, Popular

Did this woman drop the greatest breastfeeding response of all time?

Tod Perry

1/16/2025
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Family, Parenting, Popular

This innocent question we ask boys is putting more pressure on them than we realize

Upworthy Staff

11/21/2024
Photo credit: Canva – Just because everyone's doing it…it doesn't make it right.

Internet, Pop Culture, Popular

People admit these common social norms are actually quite ‘ridiculous’

Heather Wake

8/13/2024
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Popular, SK-II, Sponsored

Young women across the globe share the pressures they face to get married and have kids

Michelle Gant

7/12/2019