How to tell when someone is lying?

Re:How to tell when someone is lying? by sejje on Friday May 02, 2014 @08:38PM (#7689020)

What makes you think we understand Russia better than we understand Kazakhstan?

Maybe you wish to have imparted your culture or something, however I don't expect most people have any reasonable idea what the culture is like in neither Russia nor Kazakhstan.

Are you just hoping they know where it is on the map?

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Re:How to tell when someone is lying? by ph0rque on Saturday May 03, 2014 @01:46PM (#7691667)

I should have expounded: I am ethnically Russian, as both of my parents' families moved from Russia to Kazakhstan when it was all USSR. So if I were to say I was born in Kazakhstan, most Americans would have no idea where it is. Those that know something about Kazakhstan would ask why I don't look Kazakh. Thus I just answer with Russia.

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Re:How to tell when someone is lying? by ternaryoperator on Saturday May 03, 2014 @06:04AM (#7690224)

I think he means it's easier to understand in the same way we would tell a Russian that we're American, rather than from Ohio.

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