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thenewgreen  ·  3431 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In America, saying thank you is routine. In India, it can be insulting.

    “Good friends are so close, they are like part of you,” Danny said. “Why would you say please or thank you to yourself? It doesn’t make sense.”

-I liked that. I've never travelled to China. I know that mk has a number of times and steve was just there. steve, did you find that in China, people were more abrupt? Did you find this rubbed off on you?

I really need to travel more. I enjoyed reading this, again, Dendrophobe.