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Comment author: Username 07 August 2015 12:56:54PM 5 points [-]

Different countries have different definitions of left and right

In many non-western countries the very dichotomy between left and right doesn't make any sense. Westerners make a lot of fatal mistakes when they try to project their limited understanding onto non-Western countries.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 08 August 2015 08:22:56AM 2 points [-]

On reading that comment on Top Comments Today before having read its ancestors, I thought you was talking about Australian Aboriginal cultures who use compass directions even in everyday situations where Europeans would use relative directions.