Not as a routine, but some do and keep doing it. And she definitely has a point, yet not the right way to express it. She could have walked over to their apartment and exchanged dis-pleasantries! This is what happens when a blondie speaks, most of the times they get spanked!Maybe she has a point.
But I wonder if Asians as a rule do so as a matter of routine.
The westerners are not unknown to take a point and blow it up and pretend as a tsunami -earthquake - and radioactivity has hit them.
But then I was also never porritikarry korrect.
American plick!
Forgive my French!
Good point there. We all have become so conditioned to try and "blend in" with Western culture, that we don't even realize that the same applies to Westerners who live in a "third world nation". But then, in 98+% cases it's us who migrate to the West, and not the other way round. So we'll have to suffer all this for a few decades more I guess...Do westerners try to blend with others, when living in a foreign country? I doubt it. Instead they write a big fat book of complaints on how the host country is so backward culturally.
I think it also depends on the country. I have seen quite a few westerners "blending" in quite "well" in places such as Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Does not mean there are no whiners among them. Of course, all bets are off when it comes to "blending" in India and the neighbours.Do westerners try to blend with others, when living in a foreign country? I doubt it. Instead they write a big fat book of complaints on how the host country is so backward culturally.
Ya thats what i mean, the white girl was right on those issues./\/\/\ Keeping your voice down in the library is basic manners, as well as not jumping a queue or leaving a little space in between the person in front of you when you are at the ATM. It's nothing about feeling unimportant.
I still cant get my head around the fact that they dont use water ? and they have audacity to point finger at India by saying there are no flush toilets here ?I think Indians go overboard to blend with the culture they are in when they go abroad including using toilet paper!
So, I take it that the Ting tong, ling long, pong pong was not an Indian.
I never shake hands with a white person. I just do a namaste. It is not that I am being rude or being culturally superior, it is just that my sense of hygiene prevents me from shaking hands with those whose post ablution habits maybe a trifle dangerous to my personal health.
The same type of phobia, if you will, that affects westerners when they visit India and pop pills for various imagined diseases that the Indian air and water carries without fail (well, at least, as per them)!
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