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Q: Why most Chinese does not understand privacy?
Why most Chinese does not understand an individual's relationship status is personal privacy and it is considered rude to keep asking about it?
They say it is called polite to ask, how ridiculous they are!
If you are annoyed and tell them to stop. They will just attack you.
While on the book and media, they keep saying
If you live in a village, this is par for the course.
Different cultures have different views on privacy -- different rules on a lot of things, actually. When in Rome...
yeah, lack of privacy here is sooooo odd compared to the US.... personally I am private by nature and prefer the US (Western-world) model.
I understand culture difference. But it is not great they attack me after I refused to reveal my privacy
If you live in a village, this is par for the course.
I never really had a problem with people asking irritating questions because that's just the culture but when I choose not to answer, or give an evasive answer obviously avoiding the question and people still persist... that's when I look for a way out of the conversation and plan on avoiding them whenever possible after that.
Learn to take a hint people !!
Stiggs:
So is making up a story about people and then it becomes 'true'.
Not in a village, but in a new community I had just moved into....
I was walking past a gaggle of old ladies and they all stopped talking to stare at me as I went past and then they started asking each other questions about me. Where's he from etc etc. Turns out - according to them - I was American.
A few weeks later someone in the local market veggie market said hello... I heard you're from Meiguo... and when I said nope, I'm from NZ...
but my friend said you're American
No, New Zealand.
But, everyone says you're American....
Nope, NZ.
I'm pretty sure in his mind he thought I was wrong cos, how could EVERYONE else be wrong.
I found out later according to local gossip I also have kids in NZ and I was looking for a Chinese wife. It's a weird feeling being the last person in the world to know about my own life situation.