Australian national culture does not include deference of the kind seen in Japan and Korea. I do not understand the point of the substitution. What is the ass

Australian national culture does not include deference of the kind seen in Japan and Korea. I do not understand the point of the substitution. What is the assumption you are referring to? As for snide remarks, the bit about the question mark was correcting a repeated and minor punctuation mistake, and I genuinely thought you might want to know about it. However, in the context of this thread it was a bit of a passive aggressive cheap shot, and I apologize. That said, you're still being overly aggressive and your incivility throughout most of this thread is against the guidelines.