Being overseas long enough frees you. You stop trying to fit cultural expectations and start playing with them instead.

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Vientiane is teaching me how reserved Lao culture really is.
People tell you it’s a relief to be open with you — and then they disappear.
Saving face here can mean being sick alone, hurting alone, and ghosting quietly.
As an expat, I notice it.
But living here and disagreeing with it? That must be much harder.

https://whothefami.substack.com/p/vientiane-city-of-ghosts

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