I guess I pretty much only post when Albert's away...

[cougarfang]

Albert's gone for a week - first to California for a conference, then to Maryland to stop by his company's office "on the way home". Home life is pretty much on hold as usual till he gets back

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[asnstalkerchick]

Definitely a cultural gap between mainlanders and Taiwanese. There's even a cultural gap between southern and northern mainlanders. I've taken to just avoiding the entire situation by basing conversations on non-geographic topics, which helps me personally for getting along with people, but makes for not as intimate conversations sometimes.

[cougarfang]

It's hard for me to even talk with them, much less about specific topics... still can't quite put my finger on why?? Maybe even just the body language is so different? I mean, I don't find it difficult to talk to Japanese people usually, but I don't know how much of that is from Taiwan being previously Japanese-occupied and therefore a lot of the culture and infrastructure came from them, or maybe it's me being a total weeaboo who watches far too much anime, or maybe it's that we're both island countries and there's something about the cramped confines of an island as opposed to friggin wide-open near-continent-sized China

[asnstalkerchick]

I just saw this reply and I thought it was kind of relevant to this new revelation in my life: it's all in our head. Whatever we think is acceptable is acceptable, and what we think is a conglomeration of cultural norms, family values, and individual tolerance level based on past experiences