The Vietnamese can be startlingly direct...
Being direct
This guy sat down next to me last Saturday while I was having a sugarcane juice on the street. He started talking to me, and skipped the usual questions (for VN) about my name, country of origin, age, and salary, and proceeded straight to the cost of my camera and lens.He was quite OK with me taking his portrait, and was happy with the result, though he wondered why I did not use flash. In the shot above he was pointing at the button operating my pop-up flash.
Very direct
I can tell you that my wife is not typically that thrilled when a business contact remarks "you look old today". Personally, I am not going to try that one.It works two ways
It's not just the questions they ask though. The same can apply to their answers. Take, for example, the following job interview question (which I heard from the interviewer).Q: what would your friends say is a bad quality of yours?
A: I can be quite hot tempered. I really lose it sometimes.
Refreshingly direct, but maybe less advisable than the usual "I am a perfectionist".
