In Senegal if you compliment babies, you can't say nice things since it draws the attention of evil spirits who might then harm the baby, so the trick is to go up to a cute baby and in a fawning voice be like, "What an ugly baby, won't she have a hard time finding a husband!", to ward off the evil spirits with the words, while the tone tells the mom that you actually find the baby really cute.
A couple centuries ago, the big anti-Irish slur by the British was "the Irish who can't blush" -- i.e., you couldn't see them blush through because of the amount of dirt that's constantly caked all over them and their unwashed faces.
An Indian guy was telling me that before companies started selling smaller-sized condoms because of demand from the Japanese, in some regions of India you'd get a rubberband with your condoms if you bought them at the pharmacy, because some Indian teens from small-dicked ethnicities had started using them so they wouldn't fall off in sex, and then the practice got formalized on the buying-end of things.
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Does this kind of thing just come up in casual conversation?
Yes, every single one of those did!
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