Re:Civic honesty around the globe
by takamh on Thursday June 20, 2019 @05:13PM
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You missed my point and I don't think it's a stretch, especially if you don't understand their culture. A better analogy would be if you would return a sack of $100 in nickels, I think most people would leave it. I'm not too familiar myself but if the entire country has moved on to mobile payments, people would be less inclined to return obsolete forms of money. Perhaps someone more familiar can explain better.
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Re:Civic honesty around the globe
by sonnyblarney on Thursday June 20, 2019 @05:24PM
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I didn't miss your point, I disagree with it.
I believe people in China understand very well what paper money is and means, in roughly/ballpark the same terms as Americans.
I could be wrong.
Obviously you missed his points. People in China nowdays care little about paper money, especially small money.
No one is questioning that China understands paper money.
The question is do they store this paper money is wallets? Or is it carried in a pocket? Or do they have full sized binders the money is put in? Or fanny packs? Do they even carry cash anymore?
Re:Civic honesty around the globe
by sonnyblarney on Friday June 21, 2019 @04:42AM
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They use wallets, paper money just like the rest of us. Though there's a recent phenom of 'cashless', cash is still normative, moreover, this is a very recent thing.
A 'wallet' in China is the the same thing as a 'wallet' in the USA or Sweden.
I know that. Or at least assumed that. I just wanted to clarify what my GP was asking as I felt people were taking it too literal.
Like how women in the US carry purses. I've never been to another country. Do all cultures use purses? If they do is it both genders or only one? I don't know.