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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
In countries that follow Confucian societal models, strangers on the street simply do not even exist, so why would one hold a door open? On the other hand, they WILL hold a door for a friend or relative, or someone that they have already been introduced to. Crowds behave more like a giant game of Bumper Pool, with people bouncing off other people at crowded intersections. They just aren't aware that there are others around...
Really bizarre from a western perspective...
Stitchawl
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That's basically how a Saturday afternoon in my city is; everybody ignoring each other and bumping against one another and cursing the person the person they bumped into.
Today I had another rude customer, after he left we had a nice exchange of experiences with rude customers with the owner of the nearest coffee (as in canabis) shop who was in our store. I always have to laugh when he's in the store because he looks like a businessman, always wearing a suit, whilst employees/owners of other local coffee shops always look like, well, stoners.