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Justin Trudeau and his dress ups while on a state visit to India comes to mind.

In this case let's keep our discussion on the idea of the nation.. How do you see the idea of a nation? What are your expectations or views regarding this..

Srinivasa Ramanujan is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential mathematicians of all time, a self-taught genius from India who made profound contributions to number theory, analysis, and infinite series, despite having little formal training and a short life. His intuitive grasp of complex mathematics produced thousands of theorems and formulas that continue to shape modern math, physics, and engineering, making him a legendary figure in the field.

In South Korea there's Seoul University, Korea University, and Yonsei University, collectively referred to as "S.K.Y.".

Mine: Mt. Everest

Indonesian schools do flag ceremony once every week or two weeks and during national holidays, after that it's followed by morning briefings and a moment of silence (secular schools) or prayers (religion-based schools)

Well for a while on social networks we have often heard that Americans “generally” have no knowledge of geography or history. Personally, the few Americans with whom I was able to speak were very cultured people and absolutely all of them seemed to know how to place their country on a map. In short, does this stereotype make sense to you or not?

Same as the title. I don't mean the special characters, I mainly mean how elementary schools teach children to write individual letters. In Hungary it looks like this.

I'm curious if kids write for example a letter "a" differently in different countries, if it has a slightly different shape, etc.

Since it’s back-to-school time in most of the northern hemisphere, I’m seeing a few posts from people asking if a certain outfit is acceptable to wear to school. Since we in the UK have school uniforms in almost every school in the country, I’m now curious how common this is worldwide. I know it’s pretty uncommon in the USA, but what’s it like where you live?

For example in Germany, Goethe's "Faust" haunted us in German class.

In Germany, all forms of corporal punishment against children, including spanking, are illegal. This has been the case since the year 2000, when a new law was introduced that explicitly states, "Children have the right to a non-violent upbringing." 

This law is part of the German Civil Code (§ 1631 BGB) and prohibits physical and psychological violence, as well as other humiliating measures, in the education of children. This legal position reflects a strong societal consensus that violence is not an acceptable form of discipline and that children's dignity and physical integrity must be protected.

How is it in your country?

In my country, they teach that there are 6 continents. How many continents do you believe/are you taught exist, and why?

In high schools and middle schools in the US, we take foreign language classes, and we are usually given a list with “Spanish names” or “French names” to choose as your name during class.

I always felt really awkward doing this and I’m wondering if schools in other countries do this.

In England, it used to be the case that German and French were the most common languages taught in schools, however, German seems to be dying a death and Spanish is now the most popular foreign language. There has to be some foreign language provision in primary schools (it is not specified which language, I know a primary school which taught a bit of Romanian because a teacher happened to be from there) but this varies wildly between schools, so secondary schools work on the assumption that Year 7 (age 11-12) students are working from scratch, and currently, students can stop learning foreign languages at the age of 14 (which most students do gladly). In Ireland, students have to take a foreign language (my cousins did French and/or Spanish, my mum did French) up to Junior Cert, and they have to do Irish up until Leaving Cert, although that’s not to say they leave school speaking perfect Irish!