…Westerners place far more emphasis on the literal integrity and meaning of spoken words and, from our perspective (having completely missed the contextual meta-communications), we will only hear a “lie” whereas a Chinese would have known intuitively and precisely what was intended and would not have perceived intentional deception at all.
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