It seems like every culture expects guests to want to eat regardless of their circumstances, and if you refuse, you’re automatically rude and insulting.
If I offer you food and you refuse, I’m going to be quite happy. It means I get to save money and have more food to myself. I ain’t offering a second time if you say no the first time :maduro-coffee:
What in the fresh hell is this discourse? Any time anybody ever shows up at my place, the extent of the discussion is:
Me: “You want a glass of water?”
Them: “Nah I’m good.”
Me: “Okay. Let me know if you change your mind.”
And that’s it. If I’ve got some peanuts out I’ll offer those too. Have I been secretly violating some sort of universal set of social norms all this time? I just assume people mean what they say.
I don’t think many Anglos experience this because of their culture lol.
We don’t have one of those.
Thank you for explaining it. I was worried that I am so deeply autistic I’d overlooked some incredibly obvious social norm that everybody else understood except for me. :powercry-1:
