Am I Rude in a Foreign Country?

Sara K G
4 min readFeb 22, 2022
Photo by Steven Lewis on Unsplash

Traveling to a new country, many people will attempt to learn a few phrases to get by in communication or at least show respect to the country they are in to attempt to speak. These phrases are mainly the usual, “hello”,” goodbye”, “thank you”, “where is the toilet?” But what about all the unplanned conversations between people?

The more you leave your Airbnb, hostel, or hotel room to go out to explore, the…

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Sara K G

An Anthropologist who is interested in topics of culture, international development, travel, and human nature. skgarcia04@gmail.com