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Old 09-29-2011, 07:21 AM   #41
Alister Gillies
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Christopher Li wrote: View Post
I think most of them just don't know.
More than likely. Of course the oriental disposition towards inscrutability doesn't help much: "those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know." On the other hand, natives do not like foreigners telling them all about their own culture much either, no matter how enlightening it might be. Often it's the differences that attract us. As Mark Twain, commenting on the cultural differences between the British and Americans said: "Two nations separated by a common language." How can the one mind be in two minds about anything? I think that is an interesting question

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