[stavros]

This title is extremely clickbaity. If a few people in Japan believe something that nobody else believes, that thing is not "only true in Japan", nobody knows if it's true anywhere.

[perching_aix]

I really do wish "extremely clickbaity" just meant something like this. Clearly our experiences with clickbait must be very different.

[alex_duf]

I's only extremely clickbaity in Japan

[thaumasiotes]

> If a few people in Japan believe something that nobody else believes, that thing is not "only true in Japan", nobody knows if it's true anywhere.

Well, not quite. Sometimes believing in things makes them true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture-bound_syndrome

[anthk]

>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataque_de_nervios

Spaniard here, this is nonsense, I'm pretty sure everyone in the world experienced a nervous breakdown/light panic attack.

[david-gpu]

Spaniard here as well. What we call "ataque de nervios" (a nervous breakdown) in Spain may not match the usage of that term in Puerto Rico, as it is discussed in the Wikipedia article.

Just because Puerto Ricans and Spaniards speak dialects of the same language doesn't make our culture all that similar, as you surely know. I would even say there is little in common culturally.

[anthk]

Ah, TIL. Maybe centuries ago all of the breakdowns/dissociations were under the same mental basket...

[thaumasiotes]

We have the expression "attack of nerves" in English too, but I wouldn't expect it to represent anything like a nervous breakdown. It's not a strong term. Generally it would be provided as e.g. the reason you changed your mind about something.

[fxwin]

I feel like the implication was fairly clear here (Or maybe not "extremely" clickbaity as far as headlines are concerned)

[stavros]

Really? I clicked through and was wondering what weird and interesting mathematical twist I'd read about, and it turned out to be "well only a few people believe it, and they happen to live in Japan".

[franciscop]

Yeah, exactly, me too. I was expecting something about Japan using 50 and 60 Hz at the same time, something about counting in units of 万 instead of 1000s, some WWII story, heck even some Fukushima one, but instead it was just something akin the Kirisuto no Hata (the belief that Jesus ended up in Japan by some).

[slyfox125]

Agreed - it wasted my time.

[glimshe]

I agree - it should have been "A math proof only accepted by Japanese mathematicians"

[stavros]

Not even that, "only accepted by some mathematicians". The fact that they're all in Japan is entirely incidental.