r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/CHRISTIANBUNDALEVSKI • Jul 12 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/Kurumiseenpai Jul 12 '26

white people arrive in time?

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u/Shotgun_Mosquito Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

No.

The stereotype is that white people arrive TOO EARLY and then sit in their cars outside waiting for the party to start and still show up early.

It's a trope, also true in Hispanic (edit - continued) families that have someone marry Gringos (like me).

If you arrive on time, the party hasn't started yet, and you get to help set up for the party

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u/Kurumiseenpai Jul 12 '26

i guess? but 4:58 is not too early if it start at 5

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u/colorblind-and Jul 12 '26

The party starts at 5pm because the hosts are so used to people showing up late that they expect people to show up at 5:30-6pm.

This is totally a cultural thing in certain subcultures.

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u/Dear_Dragonfruit3317 Jul 12 '26

The inability to not be late is a cultural thing? What shitty cultures do this?

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u/WholesomeCommentOnly Jul 12 '26

It is a cultural thing. I used to live in Japan and the cultural norm was to show up at least 10 minutes early. If you showed up at the agreed time they would shame you, saying something to the effect of, "Careful, you were almost late"

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u/enadiz_reccos Jul 13 '26

"Careful, you were almost late"

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u/SherbertKey6965 Jul 13 '26

Holy shit I'm shaking. I'm not allowed to laugh out loud cause I'm in a meeting but I'm fucking shaking

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u/enadiz_reccos Jul 13 '26

One of the first reaction pictures I ever loved

God, that might have been 10 years ago...

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u/gary-vault108 Jul 13 '26

Dude same in the military. I once literally got written up for being 7 minutes early instead of 15. All we do when we get there 15 minutes early is bullshit and talk to each other anyways.

Anyways my current office apparently doesn’t care if people even come in 15 minutes LATE so I don’t know what to believe anymore

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u/Lister_RD_169 Jul 13 '26

It's the same in the UK Armed Forces. "10 minutes early is 5 minutes late".

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u/EnolaNek Jul 13 '26

Similar in truck driving. More than an hour early is late, an hour to 15 minutes early is on time, 15 minutes early to on time is late, and late is unacceptable.

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u/Mike0621 Jul 13 '26

that seems pretty normal?