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This article from the New When I was in Shanghai on business, about the only thing to do on from the New This article from the New York Times covers a company whose role seems to be to help business travelers avoid costly faux pas when traveling abroad. Reminds the Dowbrigade of the time we politely accepted a gourd filled with a … Continue reading
\n York Times<\/a> covers a company whose role
\n seems to be to help business travelers avoid costly faux pas when traveling
\n abroad. Reminds the Dowbrigade of the time we politely accepted a gourd
\n filled with a viscous liquid during a midnight celebration with a Jibaro
\n tribe in an Amazonian clearing, and found ourselves talking to the trees about 45 minutes later. At which point the Chief told us he was
\n very happy and honored we had agreed to marry his daughter. Fortunately,
\n he was just joking (the Jibaro have a piquant sense of humor).
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\n a free night, after having made the required stroll down the Bund by
\n the river, was to visit
\n the Shanghai Circus in a vast Communist-style People’s Auditorium. Being
\n a Westerner, I was able to buy the most expensive $5 seat: right
\n on
\n the aisle,
\n down front. Suddenly, I was "chosen" by the circus master and
\n escorted onto the stage. A large board was wheeled out and an acrobat stood
\n in front
\n of it. His partner across the stage suddenly threw a knife at him, and
\n in a lightning moment it thrust into the board just below his elbow. The
\n audience
\n burst into thunderous applause. I stopped smiling.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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