Birthdays and Blessings · World Questions

Birthdays are more than cake: Taiwan uses both completed age and traditional age and often marks longevity from sixty; Japan legally moved away from kazoedoshi while retaining milestones such as kanreki; in the U.S., ages 16, 18, and 21 unlock different rights.

Guess: which community gives sixty, seventy and seventy-seven each its own name, and each its own colour?

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Asked by the 🇯🇵 日本語 community

For the 🇮🇳 हिन्दी community

On your birthday, what comes first?

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Asked by the 🇨🇳 中文(简体) community

For an elder's birthday, do you give money (like a red envelope) as a gift?

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Asked by the 🇧🇷 Português community

Where you live, is a birthday always celebrated with cake?

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Guess: in which community do people eat “longevity noodles” on their birthday?

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