I've just started reading a book by English anthropologist Kate Fox, daughter of Robin Fox, also an anthropologist. She explains how growing up with her father, he taught her how to study people when entering a new country for the first time and, how this has always remained with her, she then givers the following example;
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Two years ago, for example, my fiancé Henry took me to visit some friends in Poland. As we were driving in an English car, he relied on me, the passenger, to tell him when it was safe to overtake. Within twenty minutes of crossing the Polish border, I started to say 'Yes, go now, it's safe,' even when there were vehicles coming towards us on a two-lane road.
After he had hastily applied the brakes and aborted a planned overtake at the last minute, he clearly began to have doubts about my judgement. 'What are you doing? (...)
After he had hastily applied the brakes and aborted a planned overtake at the last minute, he clearly began to have doubts about my judgement. 'What are you doing? (...)
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