[Mageia-discuss] Cultural difference: "Let your yes be yes" <---> "It is rude to say no"

[Marja van Waes]

On 12/07/2012 21:06, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:

> The Right thing to do is to always mean what you're saying. If you don't, you're a lier and can't be trusted.
>

When things are going bad, and you meet someone you don't like and he 
asks you "how do you do", what do you answer?

I know very many people who always answer something like: "fine, thank 
you", regardless of how they are really doing, even to people they do 
like, because they've been taught that that is the correct answer to 
that question.

What you're taught to do has a tremendous influence on how you see and 
interpret things. That is not something you can change overnight