Re: How To Say “This Is Crap” In Different Cultures

[Bob Sneidar]

Reminds me a lot of a trip I took with my Dad and Stepmom around the big island of Hawaii. I would hear her say something that barely registered with me, but my Dad seemed to immediately act upon it. After watching this interaction for a bit, I realized she was speaking in a kind of code, and he was interpreting it, and doing a damd good job of it too, although she would probably have disagreed about that. 

I brought it up to him later, and he confirmed that this was exactly what was going on. He had learned to do this over the years he had been with her. She would make vague references to things, and it was his responsibility to interpret correctly that she wanted him to do or say something very specific. And he’d better get it right too, or there would be words later, and the words would be more code he had to interpret correctly, or else things would just go downhill from there. 

I expressed that this was really difficult for me as it left so much room for misunderstandings, and the stress of always having to be on my guard about those little subtleties would be too much for me to deal with on a daily basis. He told me that I had better never marry then. I’ve taken his advice. :-)

Bob


On Feb 25, 2014, at 14:13 , Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

> Some cross-cultural issues:
> 
> <http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/how-to-say-this-is-crap-in-different-cultures/>
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> Mark Wieder
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