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That’s your personal and rather narrow definition of hospitality, and that’s also coming from someone from Central Europe. There definitely can be hospitality with reciprocity, like when my friends host a party and invite me and everybody brings drinks or snacks or drugs or anything else they want to contribute, or even leave some money if they didn’t manage to bring anything

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bringing something (like bottle of wine) while visiting someone is pretty normal everywhere around even when invited

now asking people you invited for money to cover your expenses, certainly is not normal in most of the world

apples and oranges, you are mixing up two completely different things

and these people are not really inviting friends or people they know to their place, they just run some small stand from their own home to make money, completely different ocassion/event than having a (birthday) party

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