Huh. Reminds me of a time someone in China very directly and impolitely begged - demanded, really - for some coins to ride the bus. I gave him the coins, mostly just off guard and happy I understood him, and that was that
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yeah, you haven't been to balkans yet. they are extremely direct, it's almost the polar opposite to the eastern way
Chinese are very direct. Mainland, at least. An aside, but I'd love it if Taiwan would hurry up and officially declare their name to be Taiwan so I can skip all the "mainland" acrobatics...
China Chinese are generally about as happy being rude as a New Yorker, and even more direct. The rest of Asia is indirect and polite. That'll change if China ever fully integrates
i want people to say what they think to me, always, i'm not scary, watwat?
also, my experience is a little different, chinese people are precise, and subtle, like the serbian tongue is a halberd and they have a scalpel and hit the target equally
Yeah... I definitely don't like the feeling of being either manipulated or forgotten, which is what tends to happen socially in the polite Asian countries