it's hard to know the motivations of many people who leave comments, especially if they are from the Asia Area. I have never been to China so I don't really understand the mind set of people living there. Not really.
But, I have visited India, Nepal, Thailand and Japan so I have had a glimpse into these cultures and my son worked as an English Teacher in South Korea so I know quite a bit about South Korea and Jeju Island which reminds me a little of Hawaii in some ways because I traveled to Jeju island Twice with my son and his wife and son. So, I know a little about Asian points of view and how historically South Korea, Japan and China tend to hate each other even though South Koreans came from China and the Japanese mostly came from South Korea to Japan if you study all this historically.
So, often wherever in Asia or the Philippines my comments often come from I have a little idea of the mindset. But, just because someone has learned English (for example more people speak English in China than presently speak it in the rest of the world) this doesn't mean that culturally they understand places like the U.S. , U.K or Canada or Australia or even India where English is presently the least offensive of 300 languages spoken in India.
For example, my son in law is from Austria and is a lawyer but he is used to a more lawful society than we have in the U.S. and Canada and Australia and New Zealand. So, he doesn't get the fact sometimes that almost anyone could be carrying a gun anywhere here.
I have tried to tell him that we are a more lawless society than Europe tends to be for many many reasons, mostly because west of the Mississippi you might have to wait up to 1/2 hour to an Hour before a sheriff or marshal or Constable or regular cop might come to your aide because the distances are so great here. So here, you must be polite because almost anyone might be carrying a gun at anytime. So, if you are not polite you might get shot even while driving your car. Learning when to be on guard likely might be the hardest thing to get used to if you are from another country than the U.S.
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