Across the Cultural Divide
As immigration brings cultures together, there are bound to be clashes of perception and belief, assumption and expectation, and the slippery concept of "everyone knows you do (or don't do) that!" I observed a diametrically opposed concept of the merchant/customer relationship overseas. In Asia, and many parts of the world, in cultures that arise from much closer-to-desperate living habits than ours, commerce tends to be an adversarial experience, where each side strives to give the least and... Sign in to see full entry.