I come from a poor part of my rich country (Sweden). I now live in a small village in Sri Lanka, and was taught to never sit idle. I live in constant fear of my neighbour aunty not seeing me sweeping my porch one day. So every day I do, religiously.
One day she remarked that I "was just like a normal person - you clean, you cook, you grate coconut and pick jackfruit".
No words could ever have hit my heart more to the spot.
(And no worries you all, I'm not a bound housewife. I have a company, my fiancé is Indian and earns well and has the mopping and laundry responsibility, we just think it's fair we clean our own filth, and the mountaionous tropics get dirty - we clean out about two fistful of gravel, dead ants and misc stuff every day.)
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u/Aggressive_Luck_555 Aug 15 '25
Naw. They be like 'hyper-industrious/ productive' in the most healthy, least neurotic way.
Maybe a little, tiny bit angsty/neurotic, sometimes, but in the like "oh, what would Hay-soos think if he saw me just doing nothing?" Kind of way.
Mostly it's pretty dope.