It's probably culturally dependent. I'd like to tell you that you can just ignore people you don't want to disturb, regardless of their relative social status,

It's probably culturally dependent. I'd like to tell you that you can just ignore people you don't want to disturb, regardless of their relative social status, but I'm sure that's not always true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context_cultures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context_c...