Language
By language, I don’t mean the Chinese language or Japanese or Malay language, but what I meant is the language of a group, a community or a society. When you go to a certain place, true indeed the language is different, but what more significant is how they gesture, how they greet people in a different community.
I went to a part of China, where people greet you and throw you a cigarette (in a certain way), and they called it ‘the person respect you’. I hate cigarette, but in this society, I need to accept to signal my acceptance of the person that respects me.
Same thing in reverse, if you a smoker but you are looking for an ashtray, you couldn’t find one because that place or community don’t smoke. You don’t insist looking for the ashtray, instead keep the cigarette in your pocket, because you might insulted or cause people to hate you for polluting the environment. Some places, people might greet you in disgusting way, like spit on the bare hand and offer to shake hand with you, there are all kind of things so be on the watchout. Always need to be flexible, adjust and adapt quickly.
These things are crucial for businessman/woman, because you gotta get your habit checked when you reach to a certain place. Mindful with the smoke or no smoking habit, mindful when answering your cellphone, etc. You don’t want to be giving bad impression to your prospect.
