Japanese rice mainly has the sticky type of starch as opposed to Basmati rice which mostly has the other rice starch making it firmer. Other types of rices are in between and have a mix of both, and both starches have a unique flavor and texture and pair well with different foods. I much prefer my Basmati rice with liquidy foods and sticky rice with firmer dishes. I also love the flavor of jasmine rice and like to use it in dishes where the rice is cooked in the pot with everything.
I love sticky rice but I was told you over cooked it when it's stick and it's bad. I'm so glad that a Japanese person told me that sticky rice is good because now no one can tell me otherwise.
@@starshifter4 overcooked plain white rice is sticky, but it's also mushy and loses its structure. Japanese sticky rice will be sticky when it's cooked perfectly
Yea Here in Germany in my town we have little Markers all over the City to Guide the children to the school... They are Always two yellow footprints infront of street crossing so that they know to Stop.... Well actually this is Something i only know my primary school did so i dont know If its more Common or Not but its a nice little Feature
I was a child when my family visited Japan. But I got to see how independent and self-sufficient Japanese children are. I'm Asian too but I was rather sheltered and spoiled, so I was amazed to see kids cooking meals for the family, going to and fro by themselves, cleaning, etc.
Perfect! When they become adults they will be able to look after themselves well. Parents do their children a disservice by keeping them sheltered. When they grow up they don’t know basic things and can’t cope.
Australian here, kids walking by themselves is totally normal, unless you live at a private school far from home or something, most people walk or catch the bus.
In Australia I walked to school and back every day from the age of 5 to 11, then rode a bike to my more distant high school from age 12 to 16. Plenty of kids still travel to school by bus, but there are many parents nowadays who drive their "cotton wool" kids to school, then collect them. A bad practice.
It's prefectly normal and great for developing skills and staying healthy. The caveat is that kids need to know safety rules and have practice from walking with parents.... which horrifyingly few kids have in some areas. I mentioned my 7yo walked 5min to school (1 not busy crossing with a guard I can see from my house, then across the school's field) in a tiktok comment, and I got multiple Americans telling me I was a bad parent, should be jailed, that they WISH my child would get kidnapped or killed so I'd learn a lesson. Like wtf.
For those who don't know or thought otherwise, cooking rice with slightly more water so that it turns softer IS NOT THE SAME as the sticky, short grain rice that will be stickier anyway with same amount of rice to water ratio. Short grain rice (regardless of the paddy variations) has more polysaccharide (long-chain sugar molecules) known as amylopectin that makes it stickier than long grain rice.
@@yeyosilver7067 i bet you never cook rice before. its not the same. some rice you need more water than usual. or else your rice will be hard as rock which people would say normally "uncooked" or "too less water". we know how much water needed to be in rice by experience. the way that short grajn rice for the water ratio isnt the same as the normal rice you guys western countries think about. this is why short grain rice is not really suitable to make fried rice. it doesnt says that it's wrong, just not suitable because it's sticky. even you try to make biryani with short grain rice, you will feel disgusting AF when eat it (i've tried to cook it before). this is why longer grain rice is suitable to make fried rice, even basmathi rice can be make as fried rice because of "lesser" starch content & the sugar structure is different which he mentioned above. this is why, asian triggered with white/western people trying to make rice dishes.
Nordic countries are safe too, unless there is a large ammount of social economic factors who recently moved in the last decade or two who live close by....
@@shintaruGT3 well, where they are from doesn't matter to much, what matters is that allot of them (not all) will have no connection to the area and the people so why wouldn't they steal from you? Assult you? And so on amd so on. There is a reason why in some cities here in Norway at least have had several years in a row where 100% of convicted rapists where nothing but immigrant perpetrators. It doesn't mean that the local population never does this, but it is very rare. We are importing crime amd other ethnic problems, like foraign gangs who kill eachother in our countries... why? They sell drugs to our kids, smuggle in guns and kill us.... why? If we try to say something about it we just get called racists even though allot of them are white
Hahaha it makes me wana try japanese rice. My dads been to japan and he said its the best rice hes eaten. And most pretty too. The premium ones are like tiny marbles.
It depends on what you mean by safe. A lot of the US is not really walkable in this sense. Most kids are taking a bus to school. A lot of schools have walking kids, but those are schools that are near or in neighborhoods where it makes more sense for those particular kids. A lot of kids would be expected to walk over highways or over 5 miles to get to their schools. Next year, my daughter will be in kindergarten, and our neighborhood is right up against the school, so we will walk. If this was not the case, she would be taking the bus.
@@ivyblack8145 yeah it's definitely also about walkability. I'm from the UK and had heard of jaywalking but never really knew what it was. When I visited America (granted, Florida) I was ASTOUNDED. You couldn't go anywhere without a car? In the UK every road has a path alongside it aside from motorways, pretty much. Even then you see people walking alongside main roads here and there, usually on the grass verge. There are often underpasses under busy junctions usually at roundabouts) so people don't have to cross the road, especially near schools. Towns are all very condensed, so most things are within walking distance (which I regard as an hour's walk since I'm in my 20s). I was really taken aback by how spaced out everything was in Florida. Like even if there were paths it's almost a waste of time 😭
This is funny and interesting for me as well as an English person since I didn't know in America you guys serve tea without milk but sweetened. I usually have mine with milk and maybe half a teaspoon of sugar and it's common here to have it with no sugar but usually almost always with milk and the people who drink tea without milk tend to have it without sugar or sweeteners
@@mist8814tea would probably be good with milk when it’s warm but when we think hot tea it’s normally cause someone’s sick or has a sore throat we always chill it over night and still add ice and sugar sometimes lemon juice
@mist8814 Southerners usually drink iced sweet black tea for dinner, but there is also a large demographic of southerners who drink hot black tea with milk and sugar or hot green tea. It just depends on the individual and the circumstance. Hot green tea with milk and honey is one of my favorite sick tea combos.
the first one really depends! i walked by myself to/from school in elementary because i lived really close. but middle/high school i had to get a ride to school. sometimes i walked home though. america doesn’t really have a lot of walkable places, and some parts are dangerous sadly
@@myfluffydandelionI think there’s only public transportation in big cities 😔 the only thing we have here is school buses and in my town, if you live less than 2 miles away you can’t ride the school bus.
@@myfluffydandelionbecause the public transportation is awful here. I live in a pretty metropolitan area and it took me 1.5 hours to get back home from school (and my school was also like 6 miles away from my home). By driving, it would only take me 15 mins to get home. Also walking home is dangerous for little kids. There’s only a few students who are allowed to walk home from school, and they usually need special permission to do so, and usually they live only a few mins away from the school. We do have school buses though, but not every school has school busses. Also, about riding bikes to school: it’s not normally allowed for younger students. Riding a bike is dangerous in a lot of the US because of how many car accident we have here. So riding a bike is dangerous for young kids because we don’t have respect for bike riders or even bike lanes. For older students, it’s more common to ride a bike to school. But if you live far from school, it’s pretty hard to ride a bike to school since a lot of people don’t live near the school they attend because of the lack of “walkable cities”
@@Jmpwfdpdllmao the US bike lanes are painted gutters. I’ve gotten hit by a car while riding my bike even though I was in the bike lane. I certainly wouldn’t recommend a 10 year old try it. Plus the road speeds are crazy high where I live and people are going 50+mph(80kmph)on surface streets. No consistent sidewalks either and everything is hella spread out. It’s SO dangerous to get around if you do not have a car.
In Germany kids also walk to school or just take public transportation. Being driven by your parents' car means you miss a lot of social interaction after school
@@HSK.Lerner Not really? I walked to school from first grade on and all my friends did too. And I'm Gen Z so idk about your neighbourhood but it's still the standard in most parts
I think it is normal almost everywhere but America and americanized countries. Even in the Middle East and Africa people let their kids go alone to school.
When I went to Japan I saw so many little kids walking to school and taking public transportation on their own, it was shocking to see, but at the same time it’s great to know Japan is safe that you could trust your child taking the train on their own. When I was in Mexico I did the same, but with crime on the rise I don’t trust people with my children’s safety. I do wish I lived in a safe place where I could allow my kids to go to school on their own, because it builds confidence and independence. I would never change my childhood, I attribute my independence to the way I grew up.
Where I live is exceptionally safe but sadly because of tv and media parents think we live in the bronx so drive their children to and from school and are obese from no exercise at all. It's so so sad.
@@CouncilEstateRach My country used to be safe but lately has become more unsafe, specially in some areas. Kids will still go to school on their own except in the very worst areas, where I've heard parents would rather not leave their kids alone outside. For the most part tho, kids go on their own.
In Germany, we also went to school alone during elementary school and for middle/high school it depende don where you lived. I took a bus to mine by myself.
In argentina i was always taken by my parents, if kids went walking they'd get at least robbed. Don't even ask anout going back home at NIGHT. Actually criminal that school ended at sundown in winter in argentina of all places. They were begging for the kids to get killed for a pair of shoes.
In 1st I biked with my dad half the time and half I walked. 2- half into 6th I walked. My parents got divorced when I was in 6th so I took the train for ten kilometers every day and then walked awhile. Now I walk again since I moved schools when getting older
We started walking to school by ourselves once finished with kindergarten (in Poland, large metropolitan area) so precisely at 7yrs old. On top of that we had a varying schedule so some days it was 7:10, others 8:15, 10:30, or even 11:45. My parents and brothers had to leave bc they had an 'early day' and I had to clean up after the family, vacuum, etc. Then get ready, lock the doors (with keys on string around neck) , maybe stop by to pick up s friend on the way. (Sometimes that friend would come by my house so we could walk together, and I was completely out of her way, she had to back track, and she still did it😂. In kindergarten however we were allowed to play, or go out to the play areas in our neighborhood..(those mini playgrounds were everywhere) And there were several times when i was 5 and at 10p.m. the whole family walked around calling my name until they found me (playing some kiddy game with a friend! Her family must have been looking too 👀), and my mother was never too freaked out....ahhhh, the good days.
@@Echoes-dz2ura thing to know, not all Japanese work places are like that. If u work under black cooperation (it doesn’t refer to skin color btw) then u are gonna have the crazy work hours also includes animation designing. Whereas if u work under white cooperation then u are gonna have the average work time (like in America). Honestly it depends on which cooperation u work, and Japan is also taking steps for the crazy workaholic systems. And it has been there for years, so obviously it will take time to disband. That is just my opinion that I got from research, don’t by any means take my opinion or disrespect them. Instead if u don’t agree, please do your own research. Thank u
I'm Italian. When I was little, we all used to walk to school, but now teachers will not let kids go until they see the parents. That tiny responsibility and "free time" made me grow and bond with my classmates and since here schools are usually 5-10 mins from home, I honestly think it's not a good thing to expect a kid to be with a parent 100% of the time.
The more independence offered to kids early on is how much they will rebel less against their parents and authority figures later on in life. Many, many people are drug addicts and just garbage human beings because mentally they're still being coddled by some imaginary omnipotent babysitter
Here in Norway its also common for kids to walk too and from school alone. Maybe walking with parents to begin with, but I don't know how my parents trusted my sister and I to get to school alone when we were like 6 and 8 lol.
@@annajung3123Its the same in big cities. My 7 year old walks to school by himself and some of his schoolmates even take the subway every morning. But there are many parents driving the kids as well. It always depends I guess. There are some districts I would'nt like my children to walk around by themselfs.
I'm Korean and I've lived in both the us and germany before. Korean and German both walk to school by themselves, but I've seen not that many kids from the US walk to their schools by themselves. I guess it depends on the area of the country (Korea and Germany are similar in terms of area)
@@sashamartens2633 off course it always depends on the neighbourhood and the parents too. There are certain neighbourhoods i wont let my children walk around alone and on the other hand i know some families living in such places and the kids go everwhere by themselfs. I do live in a big City in the Ruhrgebiet which is quite densly populated and I have family in Hamburg and Berlin where its pretty much the same.
Hi! I'm from Switzerland, and your story caught my attention. In Switzerland, just like in Japan, it's safe enough for kids to walk to school on their own. This was my experience and that of all my classmates. In contrast, I was really surprised to find out that this isn't the case in the US and other countries. In Switzerland, if your school is more than a kilometer away, you can bike; otherwise, walking is encouraged for health reasons. It's intriguing to see how safety differences can influence such a simple aspect of daily life like a school commute.
It's also safe in America. Wanna know why we don't?????? IT'S BECAUSE SOME OF US LIVE 4 HOURS WALKING DISTANCE FROM SCHOOL. Not going to leave my house at 2 am so I can get to school at 6 am.
@@WOLVESOFWARGAMING I lived over an hour away from school starting to grade 6. You know what we did? We took the bus. The point isn't that you necessarily have to walk all the way, the point is that you do it on your own, and aren't being driven by your parents.
Same in Poland, whenever it was too far there were buses (organised by school in primary/ middle school and for high school in other town just taking regular bus). Kids mostly go alone, maybe in first grade they are walked to the bus stop if they don't have any older siblings or friends, otherwise everyone is going on their own (maybe big cities are different idk, smaller towns and villages are super safe and its normal).
Indian cuisine, we use basmati or long grain rice . It must be dry (but cooked just right). Thats just how we like it . sticky rice for a pulav or biryani is a big NO NO. Even when eating with curry it shouldn't be sticky.
@@Rita_Arya Yes, we do. But they're not a staple for daal chawal or kichdi. They're totally for different cuisines. The cuisine I know is Kerala cuisine, I think, which uses short grain rice.
Yup, green tea is the best, but only if it is actually green, like the colour green. Jasmine tea (the good quality stuff) is pretty good too. Sweet tea is absolutely horrid! IF I want a sweet drink, I'll drink my coffee with cream and sugar; there is also pop and kool-aid. Sugar doesn't belong in tea, imo.
@@sarumano884in England usually you get optional milk, cream or sugar etc it’s served as plain black tea too at least during my time it was… all 38 years
In my country of Switzerland, kids walk to school by themselves too. I think it mainly has to do with either the distance or the safety level (walkways and kidnapping)
It's the same in most European countries. Kids walk themselves to school unless they live far outside of the city center and therefore take a bus. I think this person studied in the US, where it's very different since the whole culture is built around cars.
Maybe. But when in middle school and above, I believe it's the norm to walk to school. I walk to school in the US. And it's only 3 miles away. So many other students to do the same. I also see many middle schoolers also doing so.
Kids used to walk to school, and play outside, and do all kinds of things by themselves. Then, sometime around the 80s, child abductions started scaring the crap out of everyone, so, to protect them from predators of all kinds, parents started keeping their kids under lock and key. It may have happened sooner than that, but in my recollection, the child abduction panic really reached a fever pitch with the Jacob Wetterling disappearance, though it might be worth mentioning I grew up in Minnesota.
I was born in 1980 and let me tell you, we all walked to school where I lived... every day unless you were lucky or the weather happened to be just bad enough. Or you didn't ride the bus. I did that for 8 years and then again in HS after I moved. Simpler time I guess.
Born in 82. Everyone who lived close enough (within a mile or two) walked to school. I remember walking to school as early as 1st or maybe 2nd grade and everyone else did too. I remember getting home from school in like 5th grade and my parents wouldn't even be home yet and I would have to do chores and watch my younger siblings until they got home. Times have definitely changed.
I walked to school all the way through highschool, and I was born in '92. In my experience, it's more of a city thing where kids don't walk to school (and obviously in cases where school isn't in walking distance).
@@DaNitecapler Same here. In the 1970's and 1980's in my USA suburb city, the elementary school students walked to school by themselves. But it was a fairly homogenous population back then.
it's probably only in the US where kids do not go to school alone. It EU and many Asian countries, kids either walk, bike or use public transportation. Some of course can be carpooled, but generally everybody goes alone or together with friends. This was quite the shock when I visited US and you would see no kids at the street almost at all. Something is very wrong with safety in the US.
I used to walk to school all the time in America, I still see kids under 10 doing it alone. The places you are from just don't elect the right people because it's offensive to discourage crime through punishment.
We also take bus and walk to school bit walking is very unsafe but if you're in 5th grade sure you have enough commen sense to be able to walk alone but I've seen people get robbed n beaten up from walking home from school or even taking a taxi to go home from school
I'm from Germany, too. And I would have to add that it highly depends If you live in an urban, suburban or rural area and the wealth of the area. In wealthier suburban areas there are many parents who drop their kids of by car.
Kids walking to school themselves use to be a thing in the US in the 80's and early 90's but doesn't really happen anymore. I walked to school myself most of the time.
as a kid i walked to school myself even living in a dangerous part of town in like mid 2010s. and a lot of kids at my school walked none of them ever had parents with them
I can attest to the safety of Japan. Walking alone, at night, in Tokyo was a new experience. The police were incredibly friendly and very helpful to some very confused foreigners and I don't understand why people say Japan isn't friendly to tourists - be polite and you'll never have a problem.
Well now I'm kinda jealous : / I live in Southern Virginia and u can't even walk by urself during the day without risk. It's even worse for women like me since I'm 19 looking like a highschool freshman or sophomore Plus some of our officers kinda suck ass and not all of them are good ppl
@@HeavenlyYopp don't be jealous Japan is so "safe" they have women only train carts because they get sexually abused all the time, don't believe the hype
@@madeleineclark283There are murderers walking around everywhere and you don’t even know it. Respectfully one bad person doesn’t change the overall safety of an entire countey
It is recent. When I was in high school I took a bus the first year because of distance, walked the second year (we moved) and ndrove myself the 4th year when I got a car and we lived farther away. I walked when I was in 2nd, 3rd grade because we were about a mile or so. 4th grade was a bus because of distance. Military childhood was a little tough on moving but yeah, every parent hauling their kid every day is stupid and now I hate having jobs near schools because of all the unnecessary traffic.
In rural areas, the distance can easily be too much to be feasible but also we lack sidewalks on roads with much higher speed limits. For me to walk, I would have had to walk 1.5 miles with no sidewalk on a 60mph road, then 3 miles down a road with no sidewalk at 45 mph. I still lived considerably closer to school than some other kids.
It's a problem of size. The US is truly massive, and most of the country is rural. I lived 7 and a half miles from my elementary and middle school, on a gravel road, in an area frequented by big rigs. There was no way I could walk there as a kid and still be in time for class, and it wouldn't be safe because I'd have to walk in the dark beside big rigs.
In Canada a lot of kids get driven home while the other half take the bus, and whoever lives close enough walks. Idk why no one takes public transit in the USA it makes no sense
@@10yearsago96 because the public transit isnt made for the public in america. Once you are at your destination there is no good walking paths and need a car anyway. Not just bikes talks a lot about it.
In my country walking to school by yourself is considered normal depending on how far the school is, and the older you are the more parents are fine with you going alone. And dry, or non-sticky rice is better when used in dished that add soups or sauces and other savory liquids
I'm from Japan and like all different kinds of rice. For sushi and other Japanese food, there is nothing better than the short grain Japonica rice, but I find other rice tasty, too. People usually like what they ate growing up best, but if you keep an open mind, you can learn to enjoy other types of rice, too.
Kids walking to school - or using public transport- by themselves is pretty normal in germany as well. I never heard japanese rice called "sticky" rice here. If you order "tea" in germany, you will be asked which kind of tea you want. And its not served pre-sweetened but with sugar on the side, so you can sweeten it yourself if you want to.
@@Sabrina-yv8od Many of the differences she mentioned aren't differing from Japan to, for example, Europe. It's absolutely normal for kids to walk to school in Europe, but not so much in the US. Or that rice is called sticky rice, which is an American thing too AFAIK. So she probably just compares Japan to one or a handful of countries, most likely the USA, and not to the actual rest of the world.
As an Indian, when i was in elementary school, i also used to walk to school alone only with my younger brother and came back like that. I know India is not that safe, but still😊
@@productivity23I used to travel by bus to school. Saw many girls doing so too. Buses are main mode of transport. Even though I have schools and colleges near me, I went to farther ones because they were better.
@@productivity23Bro ask your parents generation. They all used to walk a lot even before reaching the nearest bus stand. But nowadays it's much riskier with fast cars who have no clue of traffic rules .
Here in the US it's only recent generations of kids that are constantly accompanied. I walked to school alone in kindergarten and took a public city bus home from a different school in 1st to 3rd grade. This was in the 1970's.
The reaction she gave for black tea is the same I give for green tea😂😂. My heart belongs to my Darjeeling Tea!! Also my Indian self cannot fathom having sticky rice in general instead of long grained basmati unless I'm eating panta-bhat!!!
Lol, I'm from Darjeeling and people can't afford authentic darjeeling tea. They usually get processed verson of it that looks like tiny pellets. On top of that they mix it with subpar milk and ton of sugar. There is no tea culture that highlights the freshness of the tea leaves here in India. Its mostly exported. China and Japan has tea ceremony and I could really appreciate the taste of different tea leaves. Indians really don't take pride in these things.
@@sourpotpie2000 Exactly. As much as I enjoy a sweet masala chai infused in a hefty amount of spices, there's nothing particularly refined or delicate about Indian teas, whereas the Chinese and Japanese have made an art form out of it.
Darjeeling without any additives is wonderful as long as its steeped for the right time and temperature. A lot of people in the US at least dont seem to even know that teas need specific times and temperatures
@@judyperri9496they never stated that bad Things cant happen. They can happen all the time you can get molested as a grown up as well. But it can still be considered save for Kids in certain countries.
Black tea by itself is actually quite strong/intense in flavor and can be more on the bitter side. Sugar is oftentimes added to it to help cut the strong/bitter flavor, especially if you went to southern US. If the kind you had was sweet, it’s because sugar was added to it!
As an English person I find milk works better to get rid of the bitterness, but some people add a small teaspoon of sugar to add to the flavour, but it's interesting to learn you guys prefer it with sugar and no milk
Im an 80s baby and i walked to school and back home in kindergarten to 8th grade. Im in the US....now, you cant even have your kids play in your own yard without watching them constantly. So sad. We use to ride our bikes several miles away, play outside all the time and not come back in until the street lights came on.
Jasmine rice from southeast asia is the best IMO. It has the best of both worlds, not sticky enough that you can feel the texture of individual rice but not dry enough that you can eat it comfortably without adding any type of sauce.
I grew up in the USA and always walked to school by myself, everyone did. There could be a blizzard or hurricane and we walked. But after I grew up my mom drove her grandchildren to school if there was even a little rain. I don’t even know this woman anymore. And yes, we said “sticky rice” for Japanese style rice too.
im in the US and kids walk to school on their own all the time because parents are busy and they don’t want to take the bus, it’s just obviously not exactly ideal to do alone so they all meet up with at least 2-3 other people they live by whether they know each other or not to be safe🤷♀️
@@zaneakbar4108 there’s teens but there’s definitely still kids, if you drive past the elementary school you’ll see kids on the sidewalk just getting to school who are in like 4th-5th grade walking to school. Sometimes it’s even with their little brothers or sisters
I'm glad that you pointed out the safety aspect in the first part about kids walking to school. In the US, even if you live somewhere with a low crime rate, most kids don't have the luxury of living in a walkable area or living close to their school, hence why most American kids take the school bus. A lot of people who talk about this lack nuance and just say, "Lol American parents are just paranoid!" or, "It's because Americans are lazy!" And having grown up in the US myself, I know that most of the American parents I knew were actually quite lenient and normally let their kids play out in the neighborhood on their own, and many still do now, so the "parents are too paranoid" and "American kids are too lazy to walk" argument are both invalid. What it really boils down to is where you live. I've seen schools that are located inside or next to neighborhoods with a long line of bicycles, because parents know that it's actually safe for kids to cycle or walk to school on their own, but if you were like me and wanted to walk to school, you'd have to walk 35 minutes in the hot Texas sun, with traffic going 40 miles per hour (about 64 kph) zipping by next to you and no sidewalk. I know most ADULTS would complain about having to get to work this way, so one can only imagine how awful it would be as a child. That's not even close to being the worst case scenario though. If you had to take a highway to get to school, you can forgot about walking or riding your bike to school. 😂 Same if you lived in the hood. Kids only walk to school in those areas if they have no other option (which, to be fair, is the case for a lot of kids in those areas).
I was raised on Galveston Island, Texas. We lived about 8 blocks from the school and that was too close, so we had to walk. We preferred to walk because we were taught that we could get there and settled in before most people due to school traffic and long lines. In the afternoons, we'd walk home and catch our mother, who was walking her mail route. Our house was on her route and she'd walk us home once we got on the block and we'd drop our bags off at the front door and finish her route with her. Once we were done for the day, we'd hurry home while she returned her mail truck, bins and bag back to the hub. We'd start our chores, then homework and go out and play while she was making supper.
I'm from Europe and I've been walking to/home from school by myself since 1st grade, I wasn't really worried about getting kidnapped since I knew most people in town and my parents usually told me before I left if they saw any sketchy people around, and I was 9 the first time I used public transport by myself :P
Kids walking to school was also normal during my elementary days, and although a lot of us were accompanied by parents when we entered, almost all of us walked or went home by public transportation by ourselves.
It's not that we "prefer" dry rice, but usually it's what's cheap and available. Also for a lot of different cuisines like Indian cuisine it has to be the dry and long grain rice sticky rice won't taste as good with the cuisine.
In my experience, we call it “short grain rice,” “calrose rice” or “sushi rice” and instead, “sticky rice” almost always refers to a thai dish with mango and coconut milk “mango sticky rice.” I’ve never personally heard Japanese rice generalized as sticky rice…but the US is vast. There’s places that even call Italian sauce like marinara “gravy” (there’s a whole history of why that is).
Things I thought were normal outside of Canada: 1. Bagged milk 2. Legal weed 3. Saying sorry instead of excuse me 4. Knowledge of pizzly bears (polar + grizzly hybrids)
@@ChimChimChums @YosiahW In Poland, among others. Google "Mleko w folii". Though, you won't find that kind of Milk in Lidl and the likes. Only smaller local shops.
As a Vietnamese, sticky rice (or glutinous rice) is something different. We don't call Japanese rice like that, we call it either Japanese rice or sushi rice.
In the US and the west, that rice is not called sticky rice either. That rice is just short grain white rice. Sticky rice is the same as glutinous ricem
In Indonesia, we have 2 different kinds of white rice, texture-wise: "Pulen" (the rice that is fluffy, soft, and stick to each other, just like Japanese rice but not as sticky as sushi rice) and "Pera" (the rice that is "dry" or not really stick to each other, kinda like Basmati Rice or rice that were used for Briyani, but not really "long grained" like Briyani rice). Meanwhile, "sticky rice" is a whole different kind of rice for us. We call it "Ketan" or "Glutinous Rice" and it was used to make snacks like Lemper, Mango Sticky Rice, or Bubur Ketan, etc., so it's not really for regular consumption. These various types of white rice can only be differentiated by ppl who regularly eat rice tho lol so no wonder ppl from other cultures are confused 😂😂
@@Tanknuggets217 Idk good question, but kidnapping is rare outside of someone the child didn't know. The majority of cases involve a known person rather then a stranger. I grew up going to the park alone, or with only children. It was just a different time. How often do kids in Japan get snatched up? Perhaps there is something to learn from them, I think its mostly a paranoia thing personally though. People are afraid to have CPS or the cops called on them cuz they let their kids out of sight, and of course phones and media are highly addictive.
Where are you getting this from? How could you possibly know the walking habits of school children across the US? Does data on that even exist? I haven't noticed any change. I see kids walking to school every day
@@Ryan5oh7 It's a lot less common, it's just pretty obvious. I was allowed to walk to school alone or even go to the park even in elementary school. While I understand some of the issues kids under high-school age don't walk to school, you don't even see them outside. I would love to see statistics but you know... we don't have an obesity epidemic for no reason either. I have also seen my family and raised kids... you just don't see or let kids go around on their own anymore, which fair probably shouldn't be that lax as the 90s where we kids kids out of rhe house and lock the doors till it dinner time... that was the majority of my childhood lol
Some of us do prefer long grain non-sticky rice. Maybe because that's what WE grew up with. People from other countries sometimes completely forget HOW BIG the US actually is. Especially compared to some of their tiny countries. Sweet tea is a Southern thing. I love tea. But NOT sweet tea. Sweet tea is gross.
We do prefer dry fluffy rice that tastes amazing paired with spicy or hot curry and gravys or even veggie preparations. Same dishes tastes nothing or bland with sticky rice because of the starch. Where as with sticky rice, everything needs a little more soya sauce or salty runny soups to make it taste better. They are very different.
Yeah it costs double here too. I usually buy premium jasmine rice from a webshop. It is cost effective and it is still the best rice i have ever eaten in my life. Also you can cook it to be little sticky or not :)
I understand her when she said how children couldn’t walk to school. When I was 6-7 and lived in Switzerland, parents weren’t even allowed to drop off their kids to school. I had to wake up at like 4 am and go on a 3 hour bus and tram journey just to reach school and and then go back. When I moved to London, kids weren’t allowed to even go to school by themselves, even though the school I went was literally opposite my house. I couldn’t even walk home, even if it was a 5 second walk.
In the city kids do go to school on their own, normally. In the countryside it’s not unusual for kids who live far enough away to be dropped off by their parents. There IS a rule where kids can go to a school according to the location of their parent’s workplace instead of their home address (for elementary only). In those situations, it’s normal for a kid to be taken to school by car even if they live in the city, as the public transport may be too long for a child to ride alone.
We walked to and from school everyday. I walked pulled a wagon or rode my bike alone to my mom’s place of business everyday…about 4.5 miles each way. Never once was there a problem. Through snow, rain, heat…none of it bothered me. It was the 1960s.
As a European, I always walked to school as a kid! In first grade I was usually accompanied by my great-grandma who looked after me while my mom was at work, because there wasn't other kids from my school living nearby whom I could walk with. But from second grade and onwards after we moved to a different area, I had a little group of friends in the neighborhood and we'd all go around picking each other up from our houses and walking to and from school together without adults... Which more than once led to us getting distracted playing at the park on the way home and having our families worried sick 😅
I grew up on a reservation and the bus wasn't allowed to drive down our road, so I had to walk far and if I missed it... I had to walk even farther in the opposite direction.
Growing up in the 80’s and 90’s, kids used to walk to school, play outside & ride their bikes/skateboards til dusk. We basically raised ourselves back then lol It was the best of days! America is different now. 😢
Plenty of kids walk or ride their bikes to school nowadays, i think its more about the proximity to the school she's not understanding. Lots of kids live miles away from their schools and need to be driven. I mean in big cities, yeah, lots of kids don't walk to school anymore because of safety. But that's definitely not the case everywhere. Perspective is everything.
@billyshakespeare488 so you basically proved the point of the person whose comment you replied to. Very few families live close enough for bike riding or walking to school to be ok, those who do are the exception. Most families nowadays have to admit and acknowledge they wouldn't trust their child to walk or ride alone to school, those who do are the exception. Also when people commenting say in the 90s and decades further back walked to school they mean city, suburbs, and in the country. So by you saying we'll duh not anymore in the city because of safety is a contradiction. We're talking about the original conversation of how kids used to walk regardless of what area they were in. Now is less common because everyone knows and fears something could happen to your child.
Southerner here, yeah I can confirm. In the Southern states of the US( NC, SC, FL, TX, ect.) the tea is usually sweetened and made in a pot on the stove.
Honestly im glad its not that normalized to walk alone to school since i hear many bad things about it , ive heard many stories of kids getting kidnapped and sometimes ending up killed.
In many countries this isn't really a concern. Of course you hear about the cases of kidnapping, but at least in most Western countries (and Japan) they are very, very rare. Driving kids to school tends to raise less Independent and active children, so unless there is a really solid reason not to, letting them walk is better.
Other types of rice aren’t “dry” per se, take Indian basmati rice for example, it doesn’t stick together like Japanese rice does, but it’s very much NOT dry, it’s great!
We walked to school too. I had a guy flash at me twice. Some weirdo thought it was ok to pass by and touch me anywhere he wanted. As kids you just feel ashamed that this happened and you don’t tell anyone. I will never let my kid walk alone.
In America, it was pretty common seeing kids go out on their own (heck, they even had a commercial that would come on at 10 pm saying, "It's 10 pm, do you know where your child is?") until around the 80s. (I believe) It was because of increased kidnappings, so parents were rightfully terrified of their child being kidnapped, so children nowadays can't do a whole lot by themselves. Heck, I couldn't even walk to school by myself until I was a junior in high school. Even then, I had to have my phone on me at all times and know how to defend myself. Granted, I did grow up in a town known for crackheads and human trafficking so it was understandable. Also, my dad grew up when the whole kidnapping thing was big, so he was just conditioned to be afraid of stuff like this.
The sad part is that the '70s and '80s were the worst decades in terms of violent crime. It has been consistently dropping since then, other than a small increase during COVID. What's changed is that we have social media that feeds us news on every crime as soon as it happens. 50 years ago, the only reason you would hear about a crime outside your area is if the victim was a politician or celebrity.
EDIT #2: PLS STOP LIKING AND COMMENTING PLS 😭 fun fact: in germany kids walk to school by foot too, I guess it's only different in america or something edit: it isn't the same everywhere in the US (or the world in general), people in the comments let me know that it really depends on the region you live in, many environments are just not made for walking while others are too dangerous and again others have their schools too far away from home :)
Depending on how close you are to school, and if there's a highway between your home and the school, lots of elementary students walk to school where I live in the US. I don't really see 6 year olds walking alone, but it's not uncommon for groups of kids to walk up to a mile to school
It really depends. Most of America is rural or has very little public transport, so things like walking just aren’t viable. Some kids at my school live upwards of 20 minutes away from the school by bus, let alone on foot. And a lot of the cities that do have public transport are not safe, especially not for kids. Most kids in America take a school bus, car, or bike. Also I’ve been to Germany and from what I saw, things were much closer together and felt a lot safer, so getting places like school would be a lot easier. Also, Hallo! Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch. 😅 Ich bin nicht so gut, aber es ist okay für mich.
@@MoonlitBookworm73 alright, thanks for clearing this confusion up! And wow I didn't think that people outside of europe (beside japan, we have man japanese tourists) would be interested in germany :0 Your german skills aren't so bad!
Back in the 1990's it was still pretty normal for kids to walk to school in the US if they lived close enough that they didn't need to rid a school bus. It wasn't until the 2000's that parents started becoming overprotective and stopped letting their kids walk everywhere. It didn't help that cities started building schools in big campuses away from everything else instead of having them close to the neighborhoods when people lived.
Do they? I live right next to a school in the UK, parents will drive 2 mins to pick up their child rather then walk that tiny distance. They've got traffic cops and double yellow lines placed because there were too many cars blocking the area at school closing time.
it definitely depends on the region and things like that. in my area it was a mix bag, some kids walked but only the ones that lived really close by, and generally rides were preferred. population and crime rate are huge factors, my area had a low population and low crime.
I walked to school in Ireland as a child. 2 miles and back every day. My children walked to school in Finland every day also. Its more normal in many countries than people think
We use basmati rice. It’s just more long and fluffy. Every grain should be visible and separate. Very flavorful. Depending on what the dish is, we’d either add a bit of hot oil at the end or butter. Lol Sticky I think just means more starchy compared to others.
I used to walk to school on my own. In those days (I'm 71 now) most children lived close to their schools. These days they often have to be dropped off by their parents who are on their way to work. As for tea I presume you are talking about being given sweet tea in the USA. In the UK lots of different teas are available but we choose whether or not to add sugar ourselves. It's very unusual for anyone here to won a rice cooker but we do have electric kettles which they don't often have in the States.
You used to be able to walk to school and take piblic transportation as a child. I walked to school (over a mile each way) from 3rd grade until i graduated high school. I used public transportation on my own from about 10 years old. Of course, this was back in the 70s and 80s before the U.S. went crazy.
this was a thing up into the early 2000s as far as I know. I was doing it from 4th grade onward but had things been different (the school that was incredibly close to my house closed down and I wound up going to the one that was further away from my house versus the one that was still in walking distance) I likely would have been doing it a few years sooner.
Japanese rice mainly has the sticky type of starch as opposed to Basmati rice which mostly has the other rice starch making it firmer. Other types of rices are in between and have a mix of both, and both starches have a unique flavor and texture and pair well with different foods. I much prefer my Basmati rice with liquidy foods and sticky rice with firmer dishes. I also love the flavor of jasmine rice and like to use it in dishes where the rice is cooked in the pot with everything.
I love sticky rice but I was told you over cooked it when it's stick and it's bad. I'm so glad that a Japanese person told me that sticky rice is good because now no one can tell me otherwise.
@@starshifter4 overcooked plain white rice is sticky, but it's also mushy and loses its structure. Japanese sticky rice will be sticky when it's cooked perfectly
@@NettylSpryngs ok thanks for telling me. Though I still will love both of them
@@starshifter4 haha, fair enough
@@krishi.0 I should eat more sticky rice then. I don't eat enough and need to get my weight up.
Also in Europe it’s very normal to go to school alone as a kid, sometimes even with public transport
In the netherlands, kids dont go alone to school on foot, but on bicycle. But they still go to school alone
I mean is true, here in Romanian kids go alone to school, because most schools are a few bus stops away or 10 mins away on foot
Yep came here to say this (I'm from Germany)
Yea Here in Germany in my town we have little Markers all over the City to Guide the children to the school... They are Always two yellow footprints infront of street crossing so that they know to Stop.... Well actually this is Something i only know my primary school did so i dont know If its more Common or Not but its a nice little Feature
Here in Finland first graders get a bright yellow cap so drivers know to be extra careful
I was a child when my family visited Japan. But I got to see how independent and self-sufficient Japanese children are. I'm Asian too but I was rather sheltered and spoiled, so I was amazed to see kids cooking meals for the family, going to and fro by themselves, cleaning, etc.
In Canada us kids walked to/from school by ourselves. Winters were cold in N Alberta but we dressed for the weather. No car rides for us.😊
You should see Mexican children.
Or german children
Or Congolese
Perfect! When they become adults they will be able to look after themselves well. Parents do their children a disservice by keeping them sheltered. When they grow up they don’t know basic things and can’t cope.
Australian here, kids walking by themselves is totally normal, unless you live at a private school far from home or something, most people walk or catch the bus.
In Australia I walked to school and back every day from the age of 5 to 11, then rode a bike to my more distant high school from age 12 to 16. Plenty of kids still travel to school by bus, but there are many parents nowadays who drive their "cotton wool" kids to school, then collect them. A bad practice.
It's prefectly normal and great for developing skills and staying healthy. The caveat is that kids need to know safety rules and have practice from walking with parents.... which horrifyingly few kids have in some areas.
I mentioned my 7yo walked 5min to school (1 not busy crossing with a guard I can see from my house, then across the school's field) in a tiktok comment, and I got multiple Americans telling me I was a bad parent, should be jailed, that they WISH my child would get kidnapped or killed so I'd learn a lesson. Like wtf.
Yeah can’t really do that these days unless you want to run the gauntlet like poor Bung Siriboon did aye?
For those who don't know or thought otherwise, cooking rice with slightly more water so that it turns softer IS NOT THE SAME as the sticky, short grain rice that will be stickier anyway with same amount of rice to water ratio.
Short grain rice (regardless of the paddy variations) has more polysaccharide (long-chain sugar molecules) known as amylopectin that makes it stickier than long grain rice.
Is the same
Those molecules are probably best known as starches.
@@yeyosilver7067no it’s not.
@@eugene_jellyqueen162 is
@@yeyosilver7067 i bet you never cook rice before. its not the same.
some rice you need more water than usual. or else your rice will be hard as rock which people would say normally "uncooked" or "too less water".
we know how much water needed to be in rice by experience.
the way that short grajn rice for the water ratio isnt the same as the normal rice you guys western countries think about. this is why short grain rice is not really suitable to make fried rice. it doesnt says that it's wrong, just not suitable because it's sticky. even you try to make biryani with short grain rice, you will feel disgusting AF when eat it (i've tried to cook it before).
this is why longer grain rice is suitable to make fried rice, even basmathi rice can be make as fried rice because of "lesser" starch content & the sugar structure is different which he mentioned above.
this is why, asian triggered with white/western people trying to make rice dishes.
Safety is a major flex. Be proud!
Japan is not safe for foreign girls specially white.
Nordic countries are safe too, unless there is a large ammount of social economic factors who recently moved in the last decade or two who live close by....
@@tommypowell4994Are you referring to immigrants?
@@shintaruGT3 well, where they are from doesn't matter to much, what matters is that allot of them (not all) will have no connection to the area and the people so why wouldn't they steal from you? Assult you? And so on amd so on. There is a reason why in some cities here in Norway at least have had several years in a row where 100% of convicted rapists where nothing but immigrant perpetrators. It doesn't mean that the local population never does this, but it is very rare. We are importing crime amd other ethnic problems, like foraign gangs who kill eachother in our countries... why? They sell drugs to our kids, smuggle in guns and kill us.... why? If we try to say something about it we just get called racists even though allot of them are white
@@shintaruGT3holy fuck if you can vote DONT you are to illiterate
"YALL'S RICE IS TO DRY" got me crying on the floor 😂😂😂
It’s so true tho 😭
It was not that funny bruv
@@jellymochi6000 you just need to shut the fuck up and keep your non important opinions to yourself 😌
@@hippyhair1920 yo for real tho 😭😭😭
Hahaha it makes me wana try japanese rice. My dads been to japan and he said its the best rice hes eaten. And most pretty too. The premium ones are like tiny marbles.
I’m from Ireland and growing up I walked to school. Helps if you are from a ‘safe’ country.
It depends on what you mean by safe. A lot of the US is not really walkable in this sense. Most kids are taking a bus to school. A lot of schools have walking kids, but those are schools that are near or in neighborhoods where it makes more sense for those particular kids. A lot of kids would be expected to walk over highways or over 5 miles to get to their schools. Next year, my daughter will be in kindergarten, and our neighborhood is right up against the school, so we will walk. If this was not the case, she would be taking the bus.
It's not that it's not safe in the Philippines but, I did go to and from school to home since grade 1 too...
@@ivyblack8145 yeah it's definitely also about walkability. I'm from the UK and had heard of jaywalking but never really knew what it was. When I visited America (granted, Florida) I was ASTOUNDED. You couldn't go anywhere without a car? In the UK every road has a path alongside it aside from motorways, pretty much. Even then you see people walking alongside main roads here and there, usually on the grass verge. There are often underpasses under busy junctions usually at roundabouts) so people don't have to cross the road, especially near schools. Towns are all very condensed, so most things are within walking distance (which I regard as an hour's walk since I'm in my 20s). I was really taken aback by how spaced out everything was in Florida. Like even if there were paths it's almost a waste of time 😭
As a Southerner, I love the part about the “black tea 😧 that was sweet 😳” Our good ole diabetes inducing sweet tea 😂😂
This is funny and interesting for me as well as an English person since I didn't know in America you guys serve tea without milk but sweetened. I usually have mine with milk and maybe half a teaspoon of sugar and it's common here to have it with no sugar but usually almost always with milk and the people who drink tea without milk tend to have it without sugar or sweeteners
@@mist8814tea would probably be good with milk when it’s warm but when we think hot tea it’s normally cause someone’s sick or has a sore throat we always chill it over night and still add ice and sugar sometimes lemon juice
@Joe-qm4yv
What 💀?
@@StinkyCatFarts never had sweet iced tea ? It’s pretty common in the southern US .
@mist8814 Southerners usually drink iced sweet black tea for dinner, but there is also a large demographic of southerners who drink hot black tea with milk and sugar or hot green tea. It just depends on the individual and the circumstance. Hot green tea with milk and honey is one of my favorite sick tea combos.
the first one really depends! i walked by myself to/from school in elementary because i lived really close. but middle/high school i had to get a ride to school. sometimes i walked home though.
america doesn’t really have a lot of walkable places, and some parts are dangerous sadly
@@myfluffydandelion I've heard public transport is terrible in the states, having a car might as well be mandatory
@@myfluffydandelionI think there’s only public transportation in big cities 😔 the only thing we have here is school buses and in my town, if you live less than 2 miles away you can’t ride the school bus.
@@myfluffydandelionbecause the public transportation is awful here. I live in a pretty metropolitan area and it took me 1.5 hours to get back home from school (and my school was also like 6 miles away from my home). By driving, it would only take me 15 mins to get home. Also walking home is dangerous for little kids. There’s only a few students who are allowed to walk home from school, and they usually need special permission to do so, and usually they live only a few mins away from the school. We do have school buses though, but not every school has school busses.
Also, about riding bikes to school: it’s not normally allowed for younger students. Riding a bike is dangerous in a lot of the US because of how many car accident we have here. So riding a bike is dangerous for young kids because we don’t have respect for bike riders or even bike lanes. For older students, it’s more common to ride a bike to school. But if you live far from school, it’s pretty hard to ride a bike to school since a lot of people don’t live near the school they attend because of the lack of “walkable cities”
@@Jmpwfdpdllmao the US bike lanes are painted gutters. I’ve gotten hit by a car while riding my bike even though I was in the bike lane. I certainly wouldn’t recommend a 10 year old try it. Plus the road speeds are crazy high where I live and people are going 50+mph(80kmph)on surface streets. No consistent sidewalks either and everything is hella spread out. It’s SO dangerous to get around if you do not have a car.
@lekilia
Its only bad in the ratchet ah cities but in towns and stuff its fine but yk theres always that one crack head
In Germany kids also walk to school or just take public transportation. Being driven by your parents' car means you miss a lot of social interaction after school
Yes and that's why so many kids in Germany go missing on their to/from school 🙄
German parents are insufferable.
Depending on the age.
@@HSK.Lerner Not really? I walked to school from first grade on and all my friends did too. And I'm Gen Z so idk about your neighbourhood but it's still the standard in most parts
I think it is normal almost everywhere but America and americanized countries. Even in the Middle East and Africa people let their kids go alone to school.
I am from a different European country and the norm here in that children walk to school without supervision from first grade (starts when you're 5-6)
As an Irish person most ppl start to walk to school on their own when they’re in 5th or 6th class
When I went to Japan I saw so many little kids walking to school and taking public transportation on their own, it was shocking to see, but at the same time it’s great to know Japan is safe that you could trust your child taking the train on their own. When I was in Mexico I did the same, but with crime on the rise I don’t trust people with my children’s safety. I do wish I lived in a safe place where I could allow my kids to go to school on their own, because it builds confidence and independence. I would never change my childhood, I attribute my independence to the way I grew up.
Where I live is exceptionally safe but sadly because of tv and media parents think we live in the bronx so drive their children to and from school and are obese from no exercise at all. It's so so sad.
@@CouncilEstateRach My country used to be safe but lately has become more unsafe, specially in some areas. Kids will still go to school on their own except in the very worst areas, where I've heard parents would rather not leave their kids alone outside. For the most part tho, kids go on their own.
Yeah that's one thing I don't understand. Women get molested in japans trains but somehow is fine for kids to ride by themselves.
Makes no sense to me
The same is in Sweden.
Same in Switzerland too
In Germany, we also went to school alone during elementary school and for middle/high school it depende don where you lived. I took a bus to mine by myself.
In argentina i was always taken by my parents, if kids went walking they'd get at least robbed. Don't even ask anout going back home at NIGHT. Actually criminal that school ended at sundown in winter in argentina of all places. They were begging for the kids to get killed for a pair of shoes.
In 1st I biked with my dad half the time and half I walked. 2- half into 6th I walked. My parents got divorced when I was in 6th so I took the train for ten kilometers every day and then walked awhile. Now I walk again since I moved schools when getting older
We started walking to school by ourselves once finished with kindergarten (in Poland, large metropolitan area) so precisely at 7yrs old. On top of that we had a varying schedule so some days it was 7:10, others 8:15, 10:30, or even 11:45. My parents and brothers had to leave bc they had an 'early day' and I had to clean up after the family, vacuum, etc. Then get ready, lock the doors (with keys on string around neck) , maybe stop by to pick up s friend on the way. (Sometimes that friend would come by my house so we could walk together, and I was completely out of her way, she had to back track, and she still did it😂. In kindergarten however we were allowed to play, or go out to the play areas in our neighborhood..(those mini playgrounds were everywhere) And there were several times when i was 5 and at 10p.m. the whole family walked around calling my name until they found me (playing some kiddy game with a friend! Her family must have been looking too 👀), and my mother was never too freaked out....ahhhh, the good days.
"And it was sweet and I was like ÆPLUGHGDGS-" Had me rollin ngl 😭
SHE EXPLODED 🙆♂️💥💥💣
Of course, later you learn that the black tea is not sweet but somebody had put sugar in it, right?
SAMEE LIKE IVE BEEN LAUGHING FOR 5 MINS NWOW
@@AsyaGök-j7s Sweet tea.
The same reaction Europeans have when they have American white bread for the first time 😂
We too in Romania! 🇷🇴 How I miss those times! It’s a sign of safety! It was a safe world back then! ❤
I lived in Japan for five years. Absolutely loved it. Wish I could go back!
Did you had the insane work hours?
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Why did you leave?
@@Echoes-dz2urnot every Japanese works insane hours
@@Echoes-dz2ura thing to know, not all Japanese work places are like that. If u work under black cooperation (it doesn’t refer to skin color btw) then u are gonna have the crazy work hours also includes animation designing. Whereas if u work under white cooperation then u are gonna have the average work time (like in America). Honestly it depends on which cooperation u work, and Japan is also taking steps for the crazy workaholic systems. And it has been there for years, so obviously it will take time to disband. That is just my opinion that I got from research, don’t by any means take my opinion or disrespect them. Instead if u don’t agree, please do your own research. Thank u
I'm Italian. When I was little, we all used to walk to school, but now teachers will not let kids go until they see the parents. That tiny responsibility and "free time" made me grow and bond with my classmates and since here schools are usually 5-10 mins from home, I honestly think it's not a good thing to expect a kid to be with a parent 100% of the time.
I think it's because they're scared of getting sued by crazy parents... This thing is getting out of hand in italy I swear
It was the same thing in Belgium, it used to be normal to walk to school by yourself.
Now in italy it's illegal leaving a child without adult supervision
The more independence offered to kids early on is how much they will rebel less against their parents and authority figures later on in life. Many, many people are drug addicts and just garbage human beings because mentally they're still being coddled by some imaginary omnipotent babysitter
Pretty much same in the US. I walked to school pretty much 1st grade through 12th grade. But now the world is just crazy
Here in Norway its also common for kids to walk too and from school alone. Maybe walking with parents to begin with, but I don't know how my parents trusted my sister and I to get to school alone when we were like 6 and 8 lol.
Geemany the same, but rural Area don't know for cities
@@annajung3123Its the same in big cities. My 7 year old walks to school by himself and some of his schoolmates even take the subway every morning. But there are many parents driving the kids as well. It always depends I guess. There are some districts I would'nt like my children to walk around by themselfs.
I'm Korean and I've lived in both the us and germany before. Korean and German both walk to school by themselves, but I've seen not that many kids from the US walk to their schools by themselves. I guess it depends on the area of the country (Korea and Germany are similar in terms of area)
@@anni4148 depends on how big the city and the neighborhood.
@@sashamartens2633 off course it always depends on the neighbourhood and the parents too. There are certain neighbourhoods i wont let my children walk around alone and on the other hand i know some families living in such places and the kids go everwhere by themselfs. I do live in a big City in the Ruhrgebiet which is quite densly populated and I have family in Hamburg and Berlin where its pretty much the same.
I lived in Japan for 3 years and loved every minute of it. The people there are very friendly and helpful, going back again someday.
Hi! I'm from Switzerland, and your story caught my attention. In Switzerland, just like in Japan, it's safe enough for kids to walk to school on their own. This was my experience and that of all my classmates. In contrast, I was really surprised to find out that this isn't the case in the US and other countries. In Switzerland, if your school is more than a kilometer away, you can bike; otherwise, walking is encouraged for health reasons. It's intriguing to see how safety differences can influence such a simple aspect of daily life like a school commute.
Same here in Germany. I've walked to school on my own starting from first grade, just like all of my classmates.
It's also safe in America. Wanna know why we don't?????? IT'S BECAUSE SOME OF US LIVE 4 HOURS WALKING DISTANCE FROM SCHOOL. Not going to leave my house at 2 am so I can get to school at 6 am.
@@WOLVESOFWARGAMING I lived over an hour away from school starting to grade 6. You know what we did? We took the bus. The point isn't that you necessarily have to walk all the way, the point is that you do it on your own, and aren't being driven by your parents.
Lies, America is a dump site ridden with crimes@@WOLVESOFWARGAMING
Same in Poland, whenever it was too far there were buses (organised by school in primary/ middle school and for high school in other town just taking regular bus). Kids mostly go alone, maybe in first grade they are walked to the bus stop if they don't have any older siblings or friends, otherwise everyone is going on their own (maybe big cities are different idk, smaller towns and villages are super safe and its normal).
Indian cuisine, we use basmati or long grain rice . It must be dry (but cooked just right). Thats just how we like it . sticky rice for a pulav or biryani is a big NO NO.
Even when eating with curry it shouldn't be sticky.
But for daal-chawal, wverday day use or soft khichadi, sticky rice is the best!
@@Rita_Arya That's not sticky rice bruh! It's normal long grain rice just cooked to more on a mushy side.
@@preethipriyadharshinigandu164 we have short grain rice varieties too which are more sticky
And newer rice is stickier than old rice
@@Rita_Arya Yes, we do. But they're not a staple for daal chawal or kichdi. They're totally for different cuisines. The cuisine I know is Kerala cuisine, I think, which uses short grain rice.
every culture is different ❤
I love green tea and all the cute little canned coffee/tea drinks they sell at Japanese grocery stores here in US.
Yup, green tea is the best, but only if it is actually green, like the colour green. Jasmine tea (the good quality stuff) is pretty good too. Sweet tea is absolutely horrid! IF I want a sweet drink, I'll drink my coffee with cream and sugar; there is also pop and kool-aid. Sugar doesn't belong in tea, imo.
@@Elurin nah, the one she has in the video, which is brown, is the best green tea brand and popular in Japan for a reason.
Her sayin oh shit was everything 😂
"We just call it tea" 😂😂
Wait until you visit England and get black tea with milk...
Let's not tell her about " American Cheese"
@@sarumano884in England usually you get optional milk, cream or sugar etc it’s served as plain black tea too at least during my time it was… all 38 years
@@Nyssieelise i love earl grey with a splash of heavy cream. Delicious. 😋
In my country of Switzerland, kids walk to school by themselves too. I think it mainly has to do with either the distance or the safety level (walkways and kidnapping)
Has to do with a wealthy, ethnically homogeneous nation
It's the same in most European countries. Kids walk themselves to school unless they live far outside of the city center and therefore take a bus. I think this person studied in the US, where it's very different since the whole culture is built around cars.
Maybe. But when in middle school and above, I believe it's the norm to walk to school. I walk to school in the US. And it's only 3 miles away. So many other students to do the same. I also see many middle schoolers also doing so.
Same in Ukraine
Same in the Netherlands
Kids used to walk to school, and play outside, and do all kinds of things by themselves. Then, sometime around the 80s, child abductions started scaring the crap out of everyone, so, to protect them from predators of all kinds, parents started keeping their kids under lock and key.
It may have happened sooner than that, but in my recollection, the child abduction panic really reached a fever pitch with the Jacob Wetterling disappearance, though it might be worth mentioning I grew up in Minnesota.
I was born in 1980 and let me tell you, we all walked to school where I lived... every day unless you were lucky or the weather happened to be just bad enough. Or you didn't ride the bus. I did that for 8 years and then again in HS after I moved. Simpler time I guess.
Born in 82. Everyone who lived close enough (within a mile or two) walked to school. I remember walking to school as early as 1st or maybe 2nd grade and everyone else did too. I remember getting home from school in like 5th grade and my parents wouldn't even be home yet and I would have to do chores and watch my younger siblings until they got home. Times have definitely changed.
Yeah, I was born in '82 as well and that was my experience.
I walked to school all the way through highschool, and I was born in '92. In my experience, it's more of a city thing where kids don't walk to school (and obviously in cases where school isn't in walking distance).
@@DaNitecapler Same here. In the 1970's and 1980's in my USA suburb city, the elementary school students walked to school by themselves. But it was a fairly homogenous population back then.
As an American it actually blew my mind seeing all the kids just walking around by themselves.
What other choice do you have? Busses don't come late at night so I often have to walk for over half an hour at 10pm
Believe it or not, that used to happen a lot in the USA until the 90s.
it's probably only in the US where kids do not go to school alone.
It EU and many Asian countries, kids either walk, bike or use public transportation. Some of course can be carpooled, but generally everybody goes alone or together with friends.
This was quite the shock when I visited US and you would see no kids at the street almost at all.
Something is very wrong with safety in the US.
@@briebel2684 What happened in the 90's that brought this change?
I used to walk to school all the time in America, I still see kids under 10 doing it alone. The places you are from just don't elect the right people because it's offensive to discourage crime through punishment.
In Germany children usually ride bike to school, take the bus or also walk alone. It’s pretty safe here too
We can only dream of having a civilised approach to living, here in car-choked Ireland.
We also take bus and walk to school bit walking is very unsafe but if you're in 5th grade sure you have enough commen sense to be able to walk alone but I've seen people get robbed n beaten up from walking home from school or even taking a taxi to go home from school
I started going to school alone when I was 8 years old. Tbh, it was only like 100 meters or so.
I'm from Germany, too. And I would have to add that it highly depends If you live in an urban, suburban or rural area and the wealth of the area. In wealthier suburban areas there are many parents who drop their kids of by car.
same in russia
Kids walking to school themselves use to be a thing in the US in the 80's and early 90's but doesn't really happen anymore. I walked to school myself most of the time.
I definitely walked to school myself all through elementary and middle school in the mid 80s to early 90s.
as a kid i walked to school myself even living in a dangerous part of town in like mid 2010s. and a lot of kids at my school walked none of them ever had parents with them
lol i did everything alone. at various stages. fn dangerous.
Lots of children going missing this became less common and the serial killers, kidnappers and pedophiles and rapists didn’t help
Part and parcel with diversity.
The perfectly cut spit sound at the end killed me😂👏
I can attest to the safety of Japan. Walking alone, at night, in Tokyo was a new experience. The police were incredibly friendly and very helpful to some very confused foreigners and I don't understand why people say Japan isn't friendly to tourists - be polite and you'll never have a problem.
Well now I'm kinda jealous : /
I live in Southern Virginia and u can't even walk by urself during the day without risk. It's even worse for women like me since I'm 19 looking like a highschool freshman or sophomore
Plus some of our officers kinda suck ass and not all of them are good ppl
@@HeavenlyYopp don't be jealous Japan is so "safe" they have women only train carts because they get sexually abused all the time, don't believe the hype
Upskirting is very prevalent in Japan
I can't walk around the country where Junko Furuta's murderer is out walking the streets. Can't do it.
@@madeleineclark283There are murderers walking around everywhere and you don’t even know it. Respectfully one bad person doesn’t change the overall safety of an entire countey
I live in NY and I walked to school alone. I think it’s a fairly new thing to not let kids walk alone.
Edit: I lived in a suburban part of NY
In sub urban places because of how spread out everything is I think kids take a school bus.
It is recent. When I was in high school I took a bus the first year because of distance, walked the second year (we moved) and ndrove myself the 4th year when I got a car and we lived farther away. I walked when I was in 2nd, 3rd grade because we were about a mile or so. 4th grade was a bus because of distance.
Military childhood was a little tough on moving but yeah, every parent hauling their kid every day is stupid and now I hate having jobs near schools because of all the unnecessary traffic.
In rural areas, the distance can easily be too much to be feasible but also we lack sidewalks on roads with much higher speed limits. For me to walk, I would have had to walk 1.5 miles with no sidewalk on a 60mph road, then 3 miles down a road with no sidewalk at 45 mph.
I still lived considerably closer to school than some other kids.
I walked to school all the years I went there in Denmark. I think you're right.
I did too. NY
Same here, in the Philippines, most kids would go to school and leave school by themselves, or they’d carry extra money for commute.
Same here in the netherlands
It's a problem of size. The US is truly massive, and most of the country is rural. I lived 7 and a half miles from my elementary and middle school, on a gravel road, in an area frequented by big rigs. There was no way I could walk there as a kid and still be in time for class, and it wouldn't be safe because I'd have to walk in the dark beside big rigs.
Germany too
In Canada a lot of kids get driven home while the other half take the bus, and whoever lives close enough walks. Idk why no one takes public transit in the USA it makes no sense
@@10yearsago96 because the public transit isnt made for the public in america. Once you are at your destination there is no good walking paths and need a car anyway. Not just bikes talks a lot about it.
We use to walk to school here until parents became crazy.
It is a crime that you're not doing an open mic stand-up set. You'd be a legend!
In my country walking to school by yourself is considered normal depending on how far the school is, and the older you are the more parents are fine with you going alone.
And dry, or non-sticky rice is better when used in dished that add soups or sauces and other savory liquids
I'm from Japan and like all different kinds of rice. For sushi and other Japanese food, there is nothing better than the short grain Japonica rice, but I find other rice tasty, too. People usually like what they ate growing up best, but if you keep an open mind, you can learn to enjoy other types of rice, too.
@@chiedawson definitely, rice is just simple and common enough that there is a rice dish for every person
Kids walking to school - or using public transport- by themselves is pretty normal in germany as well. I never heard japanese rice called "sticky" rice here. If you order "tea" in germany, you will be asked which kind of tea you want. And its not served pre-sweetened but with sugar on the side, so you can sweeten it yourself if you want to.
as someone in the UK same I think that goes for most of Europe asw maybe this is an American thing😭🤷♀️
@@xalischuuyeah she's just comparing Japan vs USA, not Japan vs the rest of the world like she implies at the start.
bro usa is not mentioned a single time in this entire video what are you on about@@kgmiller.
@@Sabrina-yv8od Many of the differences she mentioned aren't differing from Japan to, for example, Europe. It's absolutely normal for kids to walk to school in Europe, but not so much in the US. Or that rice is called sticky rice, which is an American thing too AFAIK. So she probably just compares Japan to one or a handful of countries, most likely the USA, and not to the actual rest of the world.
@@kgmiller. she didnt say she was comparing america but wven if she was my point still stands lol
I’m in the UK 🇬🇧, and went to school in the 80’s. Back then, we all walked to school by ourselves. Now, I walk my children, until teenage years.
As an Indian, when i was in elementary school, i also used to walk to school alone only with my younger brother and came back like that. I know India is not that safe, but still😊
Your school must be close that's why otherwise in India busses r more common
I am American. I walked to school by myself from 3rd to 8th grade. After that school was too far and I had to ride the bus.
After recent events I would recommend everyone stay away from stinky corrupt India
@@productivity23I used to travel by bus to school. Saw many girls doing so too. Buses are main mode of transport. Even though I have schools and colleges near me, I went to farther ones because they were better.
@@productivity23Bro ask your parents generation. They all used to walk a lot even before reaching the nearest bus stand. But nowadays it's much riskier with fast cars who have no clue of traffic rules .
NOW I GET WHY SHIN CHAN'S ALWAYS ROAMING OUTSIDE ALONE 😭😭
Here in the US it's only recent generations of kids that are constantly accompanied. I walked to school alone in kindergarten and took a public city bus home from a different school in 1st to 3rd grade. This was in the 1970's.
Kids walk to school all over the world. Some of them even have SHOES on their feet! It's amazing!
You're hilarious🙄
She's talking about walking by themselves without parents dude.. Chill
The reaction she gave for black tea is the same I give for green tea😂😂. My heart belongs to my Darjeeling Tea!! Also my Indian self cannot fathom having sticky rice in general instead of long grained basmati unless I'm eating panta-bhat!!!
Lol, I'm from Darjeeling and people can't afford authentic darjeeling tea. They usually get processed verson of it that looks like tiny pellets. On top of that they mix it with subpar milk and ton of sugar. There is no tea culture that highlights the freshness of the tea leaves here in India. Its mostly exported. China and Japan has tea ceremony and I could really appreciate the taste of different tea leaves. Indians really don't take pride in these things.
Not just Indian, you're a bengali, aren't you
@@sourpotpie2000 Exactly. As much as I enjoy a sweet masala chai infused in a hefty amount of spices, there's nothing particularly refined or delicate about Indian teas, whereas the Chinese and Japanese have made an art form out of it.
@@ptitgavrocheyou havent had the authentic Darjeeling black tea ( first flash preferably). Milk is optional. Spices are a north Indian thing.
Darjeeling without any additives is wonderful as long as its steeped for the right time and temperature. A lot of people in the US at least dont seem to even know that teas need specific times and temperatures
It’s normal if you live in a safe community.
I did it after being bullied in the school bus.
It was honestly so good for me.
No such thing as a safe community Things happen in all neighborhoods People that think it can’t happen in their neighborhoods are kidding themselves
@@judyperri9496they never stated that bad Things cant happen. They can happen all the time you can get molested as a grown up as well. But it can still be considered save for Kids in certain countries.
Black tea by itself is actually quite strong/intense in flavor and can be more on the bitter side. Sugar is oftentimes added to it to help cut the strong/bitter flavor, especially if you went to southern US. If the kind you had was sweet, it’s because sugar was added to it!
As an English person I find milk works better to get rid of the bitterness, but some people add a small teaspoon of sugar to add to the flavour, but it's interesting to learn you guys prefer it with sugar and no milk
@mist8814 As an American I like black tea with milk and sugar.
Black tea isn’t bitter
Probably you brew it for too long. But black tea is not that strong/bitter lol. Also, tea with sugar is so eww.
Im an 80s baby and i walked to school and back home in kindergarten to 8th grade. Im in the US....now, you cant even have your kids play in your own yard without watching them constantly. So sad.
We use to ride our bikes several miles away, play outside all the time and not come back in until the street lights came on.
Jasmine rice from southeast asia is the best IMO. It has the best of both worlds, not sticky enough that you can feel the texture of individual rice but not dry enough that you can eat it comfortably without adding any type of sauce.
I grew up in the USA and always walked to school by myself, everyone did. There could be a blizzard or hurricane and we walked. But after I grew up my mom drove her grandchildren to school if there was even a little rain. I don’t even know this woman anymore. And yes, we said “sticky rice” for Japanese style rice too.
Same walked to school or home. I dont know where this children dont walk to school by themselves come from. They still do it today.
Always asian, african, or europeans thinking they do something that is unique to them.
Child trafficking has gone up tremendously since you walked to school ✌🏽😅
I think it depends on where you live and how close your school is. I walked everyday to school until highschool
I didn't walk, but I cycled since a young age by myself. Netherlands here
Same i even walk to school when i was 5 in kindergarten. I'm from Indonesia
Walked to school. US
@Layla.uddin-god that case is horrifying. The worst part about it is the killers are free today with changed names and legal protection.
I love your enthusiasm! ♥️
im in the US and kids walk to school on their own all the time because parents are busy and they don’t want to take the bus, it’s just obviously not exactly ideal to do alone so they all meet up with at least 2-3 other people they live by whether they know each other or not to be safe🤷♀️
There's kids then teens. Btw they still probably walking trying to figure out what gender they are
@@zaneakbar4108 there’s teens but there’s definitely still kids, if you drive past the elementary school you’ll see kids on the sidewalk just getting to school who are in like 4th-5th grade walking to school. Sometimes it’s even with their little brothers or sisters
I'm glad that you pointed out the safety aspect in the first part about kids walking to school. In the US, even if you live somewhere with a low crime rate, most kids don't have the luxury of living in a walkable area or living close to their school, hence why most American kids take the school bus.
A lot of people who talk about this lack nuance and just say, "Lol American parents are just paranoid!" or, "It's because Americans are lazy!" And having grown up in the US myself, I know that most of the American parents I knew were actually quite lenient and normally let their kids play out in the neighborhood on their own, and many still do now, so the "parents are too paranoid" and "American kids are too lazy to walk" argument are both invalid. What it really boils down to is where you live. I've seen schools that are located inside or next to neighborhoods with a long line of bicycles, because parents know that it's actually safe for kids to cycle or walk to school on their own, but if you were like me and wanted to walk to school, you'd have to walk 35 minutes in the hot Texas sun, with traffic going 40 miles per hour (about 64 kph) zipping by next to you and no sidewalk. I know most ADULTS would complain about having to get to work this way, so one can only imagine how awful it would be as a child. That's not even close to being the worst case scenario though. If you had to take a highway to get to school, you can forgot about walking or riding your bike to school. 😂 Same if you lived in the hood. Kids only walk to school in those areas if they have no other option (which, to be fair, is the case for a lot of kids in those areas).
I walk home for 40 minutes every day cause I'd have to wait a while for a bus and my mom doesn't have a car🤷♀️
I was raised on Galveston Island, Texas. We lived about 8 blocks from the school and that was too close, so we had to walk. We preferred to walk because we were taught that we could get there and settled in before most people due to school traffic and long lines. In the afternoons, we'd walk home and catch our mother, who was walking her mail route. Our house was on her route and she'd walk us home once we got on the block and we'd drop our bags off at the front door and finish her route with her. Once we were done for the day, we'd hurry home while she returned her mail truck, bins and bag back to the hub. We'd start our chores, then homework and go out and play while she was making supper.
sounds nice
I'm from Europe and I've been walking to/home from school by myself since 1st grade, I wasn't really worried about getting kidnapped since I knew most people in town and my parents usually told me before I left if they saw any sketchy people around, and I was 9 the first time I used public transport by myself :P
Kids walking to school was also normal during my elementary days, and although a lot of us were accompanied by parents when we entered, almost all of us walked or went home by public transportation by ourselves.
It's not that we "prefer" dry rice, but usually it's what's cheap and available. Also for a lot of different cuisines like Indian cuisine it has to be the dry and long grain rice sticky rice won't taste as good with the cuisine.
true, the cuisine is good on dry rice.
dry rice is expensive in my area, but i love it sooo much :(
That's why being in India, as a kid I always wonder how come Nobita and Shinchan just being 5 y/o is walking to school alone, now it makes sense🙌
Nah! Shinchan go to school by bus or her mom drops him and going to school alone is common what's so unique about it.
But all the Indians do the same too except those who live in cities
@@AVideosTV0that's because sinchan is still in kindergarten.
I always walked to school alone from kindergarten in the US, but that was during the baby boom. We were "free range" or "latch key" kids.
@@AVideosTV0 shinchan was a menace 😂
You speak in a lovely n Adorable way ! And so is yr personality 😊😊...love your vids ❤
I walked to school by myself as a little kid too, it's still normal in parts of the US. 😊
But for most of the US the walk to school would be like 10 miles
It depends on how far you are from the school. In some districts, homes can be an hour drive from schools.
@@user-mo6ic7ls2p Well yeah, but we're not talking about distance but rather, safety. 🙂
In my experience, we call it “short grain rice,” “calrose rice” or “sushi rice” and instead, “sticky rice” almost always refers to a thai dish with mango and coconut milk “mango sticky rice.” I’ve never personally heard Japanese rice generalized as sticky rice…but the US is vast. There’s places that even call Italian sauce like marinara “gravy” (there’s a whole history of why that is).
I've lived in Florida, NY, NC and traveled around a lot of the US and have never heard of short grain white rice being referred to as "sticky rice"
I live in the Nordics and in my country we usually call sticky rice "Jasmin rice" or "Sushi rice"
Things I thought were normal outside of Canada:
1. Bagged milk
2. Legal weed
3. Saying sorry instead of excuse me
4. Knowledge of pizzly bears (polar + grizzly hybrids)
Bagged milk used to be more a thing in Europe as well.
@@ohajohaha Where in Europe?
@@ChimChimChums I also have the same question.
@@ChimChimChums @YosiahW In Poland, among others. Google "Mleko w folii". Though, you won't find that kind of Milk in Lidl and the likes. Only smaller local shops.
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I agree with her. Once i had sticky rice, i never wanted any other kind of rice again. It is so good
Sweetened black tea is my favorite though 🤣
Thanks grandma, you got me hooked!
Mmmm, I love it.
As a Vietnamese, sticky rice (or glutinous rice) is something different. We don't call Japanese rice like that, we call it either Japanese rice or sushi rice.
Agreee
I was about to write the same thing as yours. Thanks for sharing ❤
Yeahhh. And use sticky rice to make traditional dessert. Yummy 🤤🤤.
In the US and the west, that rice is not called sticky rice either. That rice is just short grain white rice. Sticky rice is the same as glutinous ricem
Yes agreed
In Indonesia, we have 2 different kinds of white rice, texture-wise: "Pulen" (the rice that is fluffy, soft, and stick to each other, just like Japanese rice but not as sticky as sushi rice) and "Pera" (the rice that is "dry" or not really stick to each other, kinda like Basmati Rice or rice that were used for Briyani, but not really "long grained" like Briyani rice).
Meanwhile, "sticky rice" is a whole different kind of rice for us. We call it "Ketan" or "Glutinous Rice" and it was used to make snacks like Lemper, Mango Sticky Rice, or Bubur Ketan, etc., so it's not really for regular consumption.
These various types of white rice can only be differentiated by ppl who regularly eat rice tho lol so no wonder ppl from other cultures are confused 😂😂
Her country is one tribe, one culture kind of country. Just like Korea. But Korean people love Indonesian food.
Right. Sticky rice for southeast asian people is different type of 'rice'
@@putrik6498That's wrong. Japan also has different ethnic people like the Yayoi people from the North.
Wkwkwkw bener, kaga terima gua nasi Indonesia dikata garing, padahal masaknya bisa pulen, pera, atau bahkan jadi bubur sekalian 😂
In the 80's we walked to school by ourselves.
In the 90s it was normal for kids to walk to school, that changed eventually.
How many kids got kidnapped before it stopped being normalized?
@@Tanknuggets217 Idk good question, but kidnapping is rare outside of someone the child didn't know. The majority of cases involve a known person rather then a stranger.
I grew up going to the park alone, or with only children. It was just a different time. How often do kids in Japan get snatched up? Perhaps there is something to learn from them, I think its mostly a paranoia thing personally though. People are afraid to have CPS or the cops called on them cuz they let their kids out of sight, and of course phones and media are highly addictive.
Where are you getting this from? How could you possibly know the walking habits of school children across the US? Does data on that even exist? I haven't noticed any change. I see kids walking to school every day
@@Ryan5oh7
It's a lot less common, it's just pretty obvious. I was allowed to walk to school alone or even go to the park even in elementary school.
While I understand some of the issues kids under high-school age don't walk to school, you don't even see them outside. I would love to see statistics but you know... we don't have an obesity epidemic for no reason either. I have also seen my family and raised kids... you just don't see or let kids go around on their own anymore, which fair probably shouldn't be that lax as the 90s where we kids kids out of rhe house and lock the doors till it dinner time... that was the majority of my childhood lol
Because the demographics changed.
“Why would anyone prefer dry rice over sticky rice?” We don’t, they are just expensive 😭
Some of us do prefer long grain non-sticky rice. Maybe because that's what WE grew up with.
People from other countries sometimes completely forget HOW BIG the US actually is. Especially compared to some of their tiny countries.
Sweet tea is a Southern thing. I love tea. But NOT sweet tea. Sweet tea is gross.
@@barbarat5729 I agree with you, also yes regular tea is so much better than sweet tea
@@barbarat5729 but that doesn't mean it's "DRYYY" 😂 and i like both im from the south so i like sweet tea but i also like hot tea
We do prefer dry fluffy rice that tastes amazing paired with spicy or hot curry and gravys or even veggie preparations. Same dishes tastes nothing or bland with sticky rice because of the starch.
Where as with sticky rice, everything needs a little more soya sauce or salty runny soups to make it taste better.
They are very different.
Yeah it costs double here too. I usually buy premium jasmine rice from a webshop. It is cost effective and it is still the best rice i have ever eaten in my life. Also you can cook it to be little sticky or not :)
As a Indian i love dry rice,and i do not prefer sticky rice,and dry rice(basmati)are the common eaten rice in india aswell
Bro as an Bangladeshi I also love dry rice. I'm not saying sticky rice are bad but I can't them at all💀
I understand her when she said how children couldn’t walk to school. When I was 6-7 and lived in Switzerland, parents weren’t even allowed to drop off their kids to school. I had to wake up at like 4 am and go on a 3 hour bus and tram journey just to reach school and and then go back.
When I moved to London, kids weren’t allowed to even go to school by themselves, even though the school I went was literally opposite my house. I couldn’t even walk home, even if it was a 5 second walk.
It is super awesome it’s safe enough in Japan for young children to walk to school. Thanks for sharing your culture!
In the city kids do go to school on their own, normally. In the countryside it’s not unusual for kids who live far enough away to be dropped off by their parents.
There IS a rule where kids can go to a school according to the location of their parent’s workplace instead of their home address (for elementary only). In those situations, it’s normal for a kid to be taken to school by car even if they live in the city, as the public transport may be too long for a child to ride alone.
We walked to and from school everyday. I walked pulled a wagon or rode my bike alone to my mom’s place of business everyday…about 4.5 miles each way. Never once was there a problem. Through snow, rain, heat…none of it bothered me. It was the 1960s.
I live in Switzerland. It is still possible here in 2023.😊
Same in Germany and Italy! Never thought of it as something special.
As a European, I always walked to school as a kid! In first grade I was usually accompanied by my great-grandma who looked after me while my mom was at work, because there wasn't other kids from my school living nearby whom I could walk with. But from second grade and onwards after we moved to a different area, I had a little group of friends in the neighborhood and we'd all go around picking each other up from our houses and walking to and from school together without adults... Which more than once led to us getting distracted playing at the park on the way home and having our families worried sick 😅
I grew up on a reservation and the bus wasn't allowed to drive down our road, so I had to walk far and if I missed it... I had to walk even farther in the opposite direction.
Bike much????
My parents used to tell us that we have it so easy. They had to walk 5 miles, uphill, both ways. 😆
What tribe if I may ask?
Growing up in the 80’s and 90’s, kids used to walk to school, play outside & ride their bikes/skateboards til dusk. We basically raised ourselves back then lol It was the best of days! America is different now. 😢
Plenty of kids walk or ride their bikes to school nowadays, i think its more about the proximity to the school she's not understanding. Lots of kids live miles away from their schools and need to be driven. I mean in big cities, yeah, lots of kids don't walk to school anymore because of safety. But that's definitely not the case everywhere. Perspective is everything.
Now if you do that you're at risk of having your your neighbors complain and report you to cps.
@billyshakespeare488 so you basically proved the point of the person whose comment you replied to. Very few families live close enough for bike riding or walking to school to be ok, those who do are the exception. Most families nowadays have to admit and acknowledge they wouldn't trust their child to walk or ride alone to school, those who do are the exception. Also when people commenting say in the 90s and decades further back walked to school they mean city, suburbs, and in the country. So by you saying we'll duh not anymore in the city because of safety is a contradiction. We're talking about the original conversation of how kids used to walk regardless of what area they were in. Now is less common because everyone knows and fears something could happen to your child.
its bc of cars, cars are the danger to children
@@rae9882did you have an aneurysm writing this? Fucking incomprehensible 😂
The tea for sure- absolutely spot on.
Sorry.. am no weirdo..
But am I the only one that sees her as absolutely gorgeous?
Here in India we put 'ghee' in our rice and it tastes super good and definitely not dry or sticky 🇮🇳
Bengali?
@@anikethchakraborty3238 who? Me?
@@User_ethereal_N0512 yup
Girl the black/red tea is bitter and maybe they put sugar there 😊 but i prefer mine sugarless
It's the same thing as coffee, it's only bitter if you overextract it. Either the water is too hot or it's left in the water for too long time
Southerner here, yeah I can confirm. In the Southern states of the US( NC, SC, FL, TX, ect.) the tea is usually sweetened and made in a pot on the stove.
Here in the South, our tea is sweet. If you dont want it sweet, you have to ask for it unsweetened.
That cut was PERFECT
Honestly im glad its not that normalized to walk alone to school since i hear many bad things about it , ive heard many stories of kids getting kidnapped and sometimes ending up killed.
Literally like it happens in every country and the laws don't protect children in these other countries
@@jaimebryant4917Nope not in every country. There are some countries that are safe, like Japan.
In many countries this isn't really a concern. Of course you hear about the cases of kidnapping, but at least in most Western countries (and Japan) they are very, very rare.
Driving kids to school tends to raise less Independent and active children, so unless there is a really solid reason not to, letting them walk is better.
@@DiamondWhite91 if you believe that you're delusional
@@jaimebryant4917you just watch this video where she mention it.
Other types of rice aren’t “dry” per se, take Indian basmati rice for example, it doesn’t stick together like Japanese rice does, but it’s very much NOT dry, it’s great!
I’m In love with her bubbly personality!!!! She’s adorable!!❤
yeah because of this i used to always want to walk to school but south africa isnt safe :(
We walked to school too. I had a guy flash at me twice. Some weirdo thought it was ok to pass by and touch me anywhere he wanted. As kids you just feel ashamed that this happened and you don’t tell anyone. I will never let my kid walk alone.
YOU SHOULD HAVE LOUDLY SAID "STOP" STOP TO HIM
IT IS NOT YOUR MISTAKE, NOTHING TO HE ASHAMED OF
Agree 100%
murica
@@mzrorange7527🤣👌
In America, it was pretty common seeing kids go out on their own (heck, they even had a commercial that would come on at 10 pm saying, "It's 10 pm, do you know where your child is?") until around the 80s. (I believe) It was because of increased kidnappings, so parents were rightfully terrified of their child being kidnapped, so children nowadays can't do a whole lot by themselves. Heck, I couldn't even walk to school by myself until I was a junior in high school. Even then, I had to have my phone on me at all times and know how to defend myself. Granted, I did grow up in a town known for crackheads and human trafficking so it was understandable. Also, my dad grew up when the whole kidnapping thing was big, so he was just conditioned to be afraid of stuff like this.
The sad part is that the '70s and '80s were the worst decades in terms of violent crime. It has been consistently dropping since then, other than a small increase during COVID. What's changed is that we have social media that feeds us news on every crime as soon as it happens. 50 years ago, the only reason you would hear about a crime outside your area is if the victim was a politician or celebrity.
EDIT #2: PLS STOP LIKING AND COMMENTING PLS 😭
fun fact: in germany kids walk to school by foot too, I guess it's only different in america or something
edit: it isn't the same everywhere in the US (or the world in general), people in the comments let me know that it really depends on the region you live in, many environments are just not made for walking while others are too dangerous and again others have their schools too far away from home :)
Jup, same here in the Netherlands
i walked to school by foot in nyc and so did half my classmates, a lot would take bus or subway themselves
Depending on how close you are to school, and if there's a highway between your home and the school, lots of elementary students walk to school where I live in the US. I don't really see 6 year olds walking alone, but it's not uncommon for groups of kids to walk up to a mile to school
It really depends. Most of America is rural or has very little public transport, so things like walking just aren’t viable. Some kids at my school live upwards of 20 minutes away from the school by bus, let alone on foot. And a lot of the cities that do have public transport are not safe, especially not for kids. Most kids in America take a school bus, car, or bike.
Also I’ve been to Germany and from what I saw, things were much closer together and felt a lot safer, so getting places like school would be a lot easier.
Also, Hallo! Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch. 😅 Ich bin nicht so gut, aber es ist okay für mich.
@@MoonlitBookworm73 alright, thanks for clearing this confusion up! And wow I didn't think that people outside of europe (beside japan, we have man japanese tourists) would be interested in germany :0
Your german skills aren't so bad!
Back in the 1990's it was still pretty normal for kids to walk to school in the US if they lived close enough that they didn't need to rid a school bus. It wasn't until the 2000's that parents started becoming overprotective and stopped letting their kids walk everywhere. It didn't help that cities started building schools in big campuses away from everything else instead of having them close to the neighborhoods when people lived.
In the UK walking is a national past time. Everyone walks everywhere, yes even kids walk to and from school
Do they? I live right next to a school in the UK, parents will drive 2 mins to pick up their child rather then walk that tiny distance. They've got traffic cops and double yellow lines placed because there were too many cars blocking the area at school closing time.
Yea this is total bullshit. Kids are brought to and picked up from school by car en masse.
Kids walking to school alone is normal 💀
In most of the US, it’s unfortunately not the norm anymore…
@@notisac3149 there are places outside US. Almost everywhere else it's normal.
it definitely depends on the region and things like that. in my area it was a mix bag, some kids walked but only the ones that lived really close by, and generally rides were preferred. population and crime rate are huge factors, my area had a low population and low crime.
Somewhere a southerners grandma is getting a really bad feeling through the force over that tea
AMERICANS talk about the rest of the world as if it's non existent.
I walked to school in Ireland as a child. 2 miles and back every day. My children walked to school in Finland every day also. Its more normal in many countries than people think
I'm Nigerian, kids walk to school by themselves when they get to a certain age.
At least, most of them.
Walking to & from school was common in the USA in small towns & many cities until the mid-late 1990s.
In nyc it is still the norm 😂 most people don’t even have cars here
And it's still common all around the globe, just not in the US😅
It still is wtf are you smoking?
We use basmati rice. It’s just more long and fluffy. Every grain should be visible and separate. Very flavorful. Depending on what the dish is, we’d either add a bit of hot oil at the end or butter. Lol Sticky I think just means more starchy compared to others.
I used to walk to school on my own. In those days (I'm 71 now) most children lived close to their schools. These days they often have to be dropped off by their parents who are on their way to work. As for tea I presume you are talking about being given sweet tea in the USA. In the UK lots of different teas are available but we choose whether or not to add sugar ourselves. It's very unusual for anyone here to won a rice cooker but we do have electric kettles which they don't often have in the States.
You used to be able to walk to school and take piblic transportation as a child. I walked to school (over a mile each way) from 3rd grade until i graduated high school. I used public transportation on my own from about 10 years old. Of course, this was back in the 70s and 80s before the U.S. went crazy.
this was a thing up into the early 2000s as far as I know. I was doing it from 4th grade onward but had things been different (the school that was incredibly close to my house closed down and I wound up going to the one that was further away from my house versus the one that was still in walking distance) I likely would have been doing it a few years sooner.
There was still walking in the 80s/90s when I was in school!