Comments on: Unkempt Promises http://forkinme.org/life/?p=844 Fri, 14 May 2010 02:42:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Somerleigh http://forkinme.org/life/?p=844&cpage=1#comment-5046 Somerleigh Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:14:25 +0000 http://forkinme.org/life/?p=844#comment-5046 The man who shot John Lennon also thought he was Holden Caulfeild. The man who shot John Lennon also thought he was Holden Caulfeild.

]]> By: Diane http://forkinme.org/life/?p=844&cpage=1#comment-5043 Diane Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:47:01 +0000 http://forkinme.org/life/?p=844#comment-5043 During my first semester of college, I had a classmate from Brazil. She was really frustrated by "How are you?" Questions, because for Americans she found it was just a way to say hello. It means very little to most people, and often when people ask these questions they then wait for a short answer so that they can follow up with talking all about themselves. She found it really upsetting. In her culture, when people would ask "How you are", they genuinely wanted to know what was going on in the person's life- details like events that happened and how the person felt about what had been happening around them, or about their thoughts on current events. Then again, some people don't undersand that you can enjoy a person's company without ever saying a word. And that you don't need to talk every day in order to remain friends. During my first semester of college, I had a classmate from Brazil. She was really frustrated by “How are you?” Questions, because for Americans she found it was just a way to say hello. It means very little to most people, and often when people ask these questions they then wait for a short answer so that they can follow up with talking all about themselves. She found it really upsetting. In her culture, when people would ask “How you are”, they genuinely wanted to know what was going on in the person’s life- details like events that happened and how the person felt about what had been happening around them, or about their thoughts on current events.

Then again, some people don’t undersand that you can enjoy a person’s company without ever saying a word. And that you don’t need to talk every day in order to remain friends.

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