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ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 6 days ago
No, it’s just one of the usual questions people ask to allow people to introduce themselves. Unless I’m in terrible pain and in the middle of nowhere and you’re a doctor, what immediate use could I have of you? 🤷
meyotch@slrpnk.net 6 days ago
It’s just a US American thing. It is a question less frequently asked when traveling abroad. Many Europeans and South Americans have mentioned it to me over the years as a reliable way to ‘spot the American’.
Our culture is broken and we are widely considered to be gauche and rude by others in the world.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 5 days ago
In The Netherlands this is pretry common as well, heck in even abroad I have been asked the question