George Jonas in the National Post on the role of respect in “the East.”
There’s a bewildered question Americans, and Westerners in general, keep asking after 9-11: “Why do they hate us so?” The question also has an unasked corollary: “Why don’t they respect us more?”
The answer may be that we haven’t yet learned when to whack the station master and when to offer him baksheesh.
Jonas might be relying upon a single anecdote a bit much, but it’s still an interesting set of observations.
(Via InstaPundit)
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