The history of this beat is wonderful. Examples that instantly spring to mind are the distinctive last two bars of the good old English hornipe, and the claves rhythm that underpins so much Latin/Caribbean music( Sometimes as in teh Bo Diddley rhythm, sometimes with the two bars reversed in the rumba version as in the classic Peanut Vendor". The rhythm was stepped out by dancers in Cumberland, dancing the Cumberland Square Eight, when the people tapped the floor for the last two bars of the figure, before starting out on the next.
The Kurds from Iraq I have been playing with use this a lot on the drums, particularly as a finishing flourish at the end of a song. A Punjab Sikh drummer taiught us some village festival drumming recently, and he used this rhythm(which he called Western) as one of his exercises. And in England it is used universally when knocking on someone's door to indicate "this is a friend visiting, not the taxman or the police". I am sure other examples can be found wherever. I think this rhythm ranks with Indo-European languages, the invention of agriculture, or the idea that neighbouring tribes enjoy unnatural relations with sheep, as one of the deep things that vast swathes of human culture have in common.
"How's your father?
All right
How's your sister?
She might"