Where “privacy” and “personal space” are still buzzwords for some living in Asia, these here are requirements as basic as breathing, existence unfathomable without.
Where watching, gauging and measuring before speaking are valued as strengths, these may be a handicap here.
Strength, built from self-possession and individualism, pit against fluid power gained from years of tolerating and standing in the shoes of others.
A million other things, none right or wrong, just as different as apples are from oranges.
How is it we are so exhaustingly different? And how do we achieve more common ground?
Be it as Neil Gaiman said “If only experience could be endowed without experience”, surely we will be enriched by these times, but the currents of give and take make trying teachers.
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