On Monday, June 1, 2020 at 12:09:27 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2020-06-01 4:53 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> > On Monday, June 1, 2020 at 9:35:48 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> >> My dislike of both blue cheese and runny eggs was well hidden from
> >> my in-laws (they fed me both at various times because they wanted
> >> to treat me well), but they never needed to be told I love their
> >> cooking. I always told them the food was good--or delicious if it
> >> was--but never that I loved it. All in all, I'd rather be Western
> >> than Eastern. It must be a terrible burden to have to take care of
> >> others' "face" all the time. I'll manage my own and let others
> >> worry about theirs.
> >>
> >> Cindy Hamilton
> >
> > That's pretty much the Western concept of looking out for number one.
> > "Saving face" means that if the other guy loses face, so do you.
> > Saving face is a non-zero-sum game.
> >
> Oh bullshit. "Saving face" is looking out for number one.

The concept of saving face is one that's so far out of most Westerners experience that they'll never be able to figure it out. The thing that I'll never understand is why Westerners will comment on things that the have no knowledge of. Things like saving face and the notion that cashiers in supermarkets have to memorize random codes for produce. It will forever remain a mystery to me.