I think a lot of the joking around is taken as serious threat by some people. Gender and ethnicity play into that I'm sure. When most people are male, they get

I think a lot of the joking around is taken as serious threat by some people. Gender and ethnicity play into that I'm sure. When most people are male, they get used to harassing each other for fun. It's possible that by giving you lip they were trying to bring you into that fold. What bothers you could legitimately be funny and fun to them. They don't understand getting so offended. They also could have been asses. I wasn't there. However, if they were real asses, you should have had something so horrible they did that you could just go get them fired. Sounds like nothing that serious happened. You're probably in a bit of a culture shock and making things worse than they are. The worst thing I read was someone demanding they pay the bill for lunch right?