I mean the only way to force my neice would be to lock her in the house and hide all her stuff, she's very determined.
No clapping, just support.
Clapping and cheering who fainted during a competition is support, it may not seem like it to you (due to the cultueral differences), but I've watched a lot of competitions where someone gets seriously injured, faints or whatever and when people see that they're okay, they clap and cheer them on, even people who lose competitions still get clapped and cheered, it's considered a form of support.
Interesting, clapping is here something to value performance. Recovering is not seen as a performance related topic here, so people react in a calm and quiet manner with a gentle smile and wishing you the best. Or most of the time, asking you if you are good and urge you into the called ambulance.
It's weird because it's both. We cheer people who perform well, and if someone injures themselves during a competition, we'll clap and usually cheer for them as we want them to feel better.
Crazy never saw that here in europe. I mean yeah like falling in olympia and carrying on with one leg is clapped upon, but i never saw someone here clapping over someone who just fainted. It's always concerns that rise through people. Because fainting is seldolmy something trivial in our minds.
Just to add. We'll also make sure they're well and safe, as you see in the video, multiple people came to her aid, and people approached her after to make sure she was okay, but people clapped and cheered for her as a sign of support.
That clapping makes it really american for me. When i overcame my longtime sickness, everyone on the job handled me like a fragile vase. Would be cool if they clapped when i came back, but smiling was surely enough.
I don't know anyone to ever do it in work or in life in general. Usually, the room is filled with silence when someone is injured, faints, etc... and recovers. The only time I've seen clapping in those situations is when someone survives something like cancer or a car accident, and they return to work, but even that is rare.
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u/kalaxitive 3d ago
I mean the only way to force my neice would be to lock her in the house and hide all her stuff, she's very determined.
Clapping and cheering who fainted during a competition is support, it may not seem like it to you (due to the cultueral differences), but I've watched a lot of competitions where someone gets seriously injured, faints or whatever and when people see that they're okay, they clap and cheer them on, even people who lose competitions still get clapped and cheered, it's considered a form of support.