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

Travel is tough with littles at home. Someday, my man...

regarding the please and thank you thing... I read this and wondered a lot about my experience. People are fairly abrupt, but I'm not enough of an expert on the culture or the language to really weigh in on the subject.

I did hear a lot of thank yous though...