Oh The Things These Foreign Types Do!!

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Oh The Things These Foreign Types Do!!

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Sort of a global edition looking at cultural blind spots.

Not meant to be xenophobic (or worse), just head scratching things that are popular elsewhere.

I'll start with mukbang - apparently in South Korea, thousands of people tune in to watch strangers binge eat.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/0 ... -binge-eat

I really don't get this.



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Canadians just can't get enough of the US Presidential election cycle. Crazy!
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Pruitt's Korean now.
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