#culturalobservation — Public Fediverse posts
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“So speak up till your throat is sore. The world is yours, so steal it back. Let your demons be your Trojan horse. Put down the battering ram. Hold open doors only for those who know how to walk through them.”
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Being overseas long enough frees you. You stop trying to fit cultural expectations and start playing with them instead.
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Vientiane is teaching me how reserved Lao culture really is.
People tell you it’s a relief to be open with you — and then they disappear.
Saving face here can mean being sick alone, hurting alone, and ghosting quietly.
As an expat, I notice it.
But living here and disagreeing with it? That must be much harder.https://whothefami.substack.com/p/vientiane-city-of-ghosts
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