>they have a pajeet type mentality where they’ll say they understand but really don’t.
I spent some time in SE Asia and I noticed this as well. I asked a local and he explained it to me, it's similar to what we'd call "saving face". Rather than admit they don't know something they will PRETEND to know when in fact they have no idea. i asked for directions from 3 different ppl for what i thought was a well know tourist attraction and got 3 opposite answers. i thought there's no way ppl can be this dumb and/or this passive aggressive. it comes from shame and how they look at it in their culture.
it's like the opposite of how they call fat ppl fat because it's a matter of fact, while we pretend (as a whole) that we don't really notice it.
Yeah I can see that. I work for a semi conductor company so that means I work with majority of H1B types. I’m mainly for helping troubleshoot. And to help. I need answered questions of a situation. So you can imagine how frustrating it is when I ask. Did you try this? And they say yeah yeah. Then ghost me while I make other troubleshooting plans. To come back and they say it’s fixed. They fixed it…. Then after have to get how it was fixed, from another team member. And it was one of the first suggestions I’ve given. Fkn posses me off sometimes. Another White dude would just say. They didn’t check. Then tell me yup that was it. And problem is fixed less than a day in some cases.
when you apply that style of thinking you can understand the difference in output of the ppl.
how could you get anything done with a top down system of essentially white lies throughout? half you're day would be trying to just grasp the reality of the situation without the bs.
That’s basically my job now. In conference to try to help mitigate that actually. Funny. Senior engineers. All but one is White male. Doing the thinking, hiring Asians and pajeets to work. Fucking unbelievable. There’s still whites around just a lot less than I remembered when I joined decades ago
it's like the opposite of how they call fat ppl fat because it's a matter of fact, while we pretend (as a whole) that we don't really notice it
This is kinda how they as a whole operate. Spent a whole bunch of time in China, Japan, Thailand.
"That person is fat...there is nothing wrong with saying that because it is objectively true."
"No no no, we don't allow negroes here. Negroes are criminals. Don't argue with me that I am stereotyping, enough of them are criminals that it is not worth my trouble to business with any of them."
"You have failed at your work/school/whatever endeavor. It is not mean of me to say as such, because it objectively true. You should be ashamed and be ridiculed until you have recovered, not told it will be ok. I am embarrassed by you and will not associate with you until you give me a reason to."
It's a very matter of fact culture.