Blog Survey. Please participate!

As what's been said in my previous post, I need to get a variety of fun facts from different cultures. If you haven't received my e-mail with the survey, could you kindly comment on this post and share some fun facts about a culture (or cultures) you're familiar with?

Here are some examples and prompts...
1. Trivial facts about the culture you're familiar with. (ie. Government: The turnout rate for this year's federal election is ____%)
2. Secret places/stores where you can find great stuff! (ie. Food: You can get some exceptionally good cloves to make Chai tea in the store called __________ on Granville Island's Public Market)
3. Etiquette (Culture: ie. In Korean culture, you need to find out the age of the person when you first meet in order to address them appropriately)
4. Informal speech/slang/ common use of words. (ie. Language: "Elevators" in Canada are "Lifts" in England)
5. Shortcut/alternative (ie. Government: For PR Card Applications, you can speed up the process time for renewal if you can provide a flight ticket.)

Here are the Categories
1. Government
2. Career
3. Culture
4. Food/Groceries
5. Transportation
6. Living/Accomodation
7. Medical
8. Language
9. Education

Here's what you do...
List the fun facts you know and write it as a comment of this post. It'd be great if you can categorize it. (ie. 8. Language: Sa Wa Di Ka is hello in Thai.) If you're not sure what category it would fall under, please list it anyways I can then figure it out... :-)

Please e-mail me at chloelan@shaw.ca if you have any quesitons.
Thanks so much for your kind contribution in advance!