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Went to Diego airport today to see friends off.
Any visit to the airport means seeing familiar faces and them seeing you.
I realise I’m already getting used to the fact that this is a small town and your life is on show. In London people would know what I was doing because I told them, [...]
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I have started talking to myself in public again. The last two weeks have seen a resurgence of this habit, a behaviour I developed in Madagascar in 2006, but had lost during my stay in England.
I didn’t really notice I did it until I returned to England. I found myself doing it in shops [...]
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How do you show that you’re really listening in England and Madagascar?
England
Make eye contact
Make listening noises (aha, yup, indeed)
Ask questions
Madagascar
Look at the ground
Remain silent
Thus an English person listening to a Malagasy could be perceived as:
Wanting to speak themselves
Trying to dominate
Being disrespectful
Intrusive by asking questions
And a Malagasy listening to an English person could be perceived as:
Bored
Trying [...]
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