RE: Creativenonfiction #154 || Don't Judge If You'd Never Been In Their Shoes.
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In the culture in which I grew up, we valued privacy very highly. One wouldn't have to explain why one ate a certain food. One would never expect anyone to question a choice of diet. Even the idea of being told how to dress for an event (unless there is a work uniform) would be intrusive. It would be wildly inappropriate to ask why someone didn't order a certain amount of material. No one, where I grew up, would be expected to explain how money was spent or why. It was astonishing to me when I read your story that you asked the woman to explain her diet. Then you almost insisted she buy more yards than she wanted. Besides that, you wanted to know what she was doing with her money. It's instructive to me that in your culture this intrusive behavior is acceptable and in my culture it would have been highly inappropriate. Reading stories from around the world for me is eye opening.
Over here, privacy is also something that is valued. For one to be able to ask personal questions of someone else, you must have a certain amount of cordial relationship with said person.
Though nosy, but my questions were out of concern for her not just to satisfy my own curiosity.
I wouldn't be able to ask that of just anyone as that would be very inappropriate.
I appreciate you reading and sharing your thoughts.