This may be a bit too deep and meaningfull for this time of the morning, but after reading and posting on the more serious threads on this forum, a common theme seems to be the issue of "face".
I have lived for a while in southern Africa and worked with the desert Aboriginals of Australia and in both cases it did not take me long to understand the people and their rules in life. Everyone has pride and a certain amount of ambition, and in these cases it was realatively easy to predict how people would react to a set of cicumstances.
This does not seem to be the case in Asia!!!
How did it come about that the issue of "face" became so complicated that a foreigner that has not been brought up in Asia, by Asians, cannot understand how it all works?
