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

[Simon Parsons]

On 13/07/2012 07:42, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> Of course I accept local habits, but we should not do this here in
> this environment. As our communication is only written, without the
> extra benefit of face mimic and body language, we need to be precise
> in such things where the answer to a question bears consequences for
> each and all. I think people working in an international environment
> should accept this.
>


Being English, I find all of this very interesting. Here, we say 
"Pleased to meet you" when we probably are not.

I would not normally mention Germans in this context, but having German 
relatives, they have told me that it is well-known in Germany that we 
English say many things that we do not mean and this causes some 
communication problems, but most importantly, that because of this the 
English cannot be trusted. Of course, we think we are just being polite. ;-)

Simon(nzg)