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> Saying "I can eat glass, it does not hurt me", however, ensures that the speaker "will be viewed as an insane native, and treated with dignity and respect".

• deleted 3y ago
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• lo_zamoyski 3y ago
  I think this assumes people are more respectful to their own, at least overtly, than to guests, but this is an incomplete view. In cultures where hospitality is high, guests are treated with a hospitality and patience that is not extended to the locals. Furthermore, foreigners are more likely to be viewed as people unfamiliar with the conventions and customs of the region, and therefore some reasonable patience is shown, whereas locals are expected to be on top of such things. What insane people get isn't dignity and true respect, but avoidance!
• kadoban 3y ago
  Given the context, the probability of that being tongue-in-cheek has to be quite high.
  • NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
    On second thought, keep your tongue away from your cheeks whilst eating glass, lest it get shredded up.
• version_five 3y ago
  Obviously tongue in cheek but also largely true. Tourists are targets for all kinds of scams. Less so local crazies. Nobody is actually going to belive an obvious foreigner shouting a crazy phrase in accented local language is actually a local, but they still may steer clear and scam someone else (if this was meant to be taken seriously, it obviously isn't). There's that "real Ghostbusters" cartoon where the street toughs ask Egon what he's doing and he said something about ectoplasm or whatever, and one of the toughs asks the leader why he left him alone and he says 'I don't mess with anyone weirder than me"