• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    This isnt small talk, this is a survival mechanism to figure if the person will enact violence on you or not. Optimally you want the response to be empty words, grunting, or being told to fuck off.

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      Optimally you want the response to be empty words, grunting, or being told to fuck off.

      US/DE/both, did you mean?

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        I was referring to US culture. The most exposure to Deutsche culture is through part of my family culture and that ancestor left back when the HRE was still in living memory and not even old living memory.