Taxi: “Where are you going?” Me: “Mind if I have an address?” “Sure.” “Ro...” “Oh sorry machine not booted yet. One second... OK, Roppongi where?” Darn it I hate being profiled even more when they’re right.
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(Can’t fail to repeat the great observation from the book Making Common Sense of Japan that this is not universal in either place and that e.g. mid-ranking American military officers do exactly the same to high ranking officers, at a degree of skill which surprised Japanese ppl.)
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I'm a born-and-raised Indian who eats meat and doesn't like spicy food married to an American vegetarian who does like spicy food. We have to switch plates every single time we go to a restaurant in India
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Aka low-context and high-context cultures. :)
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What's a good example of the two behaviours in the same situation? Like, would an American Taxi Driver never attempt to guess the address?
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