Participants in this exchange might like to look at Dorothy's nice blog at
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2011/11/importance-of-not-being-earnest-on.html
Peter
On 22 Nov 2011, at 04:27, Rudy Troike wrote:
> Culturally, some of this may begin with training in childhood. An oft-
> repeated aphorism when I was growing up was "Children should be seen
> and not heard", which was quoted as having applied (in the US) up
> through post-Victorian times. When I was in Taiwan, and heard a noisy
> child in a restaurant, I never even had to turn around to know that it
> was an American. Chinese children are usually very quiet, as are adults.
>
> NB: Let us be mindful of Damien's earlier request that in responding to
> posts, we not include every previous post on the thread, which includes
> every previous post on the thread, which includes every previous post...
>
> Rudy Troike
> University of Arizona
> Tucson, Arizona USA
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