You’re right, it is hard to understand. I guess this is where cultures differ. Maybe it’s normal is such cultures to be like this. But I think you would be mistaken to think this is a universal behaviour across the world.
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I am not assuming any universality, I understand humor is completely dependent on cultural contexts. The universality part of this is: what humor can do, it takes you outside of yourself, it has the ability to talk about hard things in very direct ways. Imagine the words that may follow this conversation: “Bro, let’s go grab a drink and talk.”
Didn’t seem like this was where the conversation in the video was heading. But acknowledged, everyone and every culture is different