Questions tagged [south-east-asia]
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How can one stop dubious advances of a married former partner without hurting them a lot?
I am sorry if this is a duplicate, the closest situation I could find here is this one. This is a bit long but given that I am not entirely sure if there was any advance to be concerned about in the first place, I think it is important.
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How to response to double standards elder relatives/acquaintance about my saving for a new PC without looking like an arrogant/disrespectful person?
Background
I've been saving for new PC for a while and should be enough in a couple of months, soon be building it. The PC's components have already been chosen and should be working for both my job and my gaming hobby.
Problem
Once in a while, some…
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How do I convince my parents and their employee to close their restaurant while they go on their trips
Background: my parents have been running a small restaurant which opens everyday with another employee for a couple of years now; things went okay so far, I don't hear much complaints. I've been helping them whenever I can, back then when I was…
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Friend in a group behaving a bit strange, how to distance myself without being too forward?
I have a friend in a group. Let's call her Wendy. The group is rather large and diverse, but a core 8-9 people meet regularly, and she is part of this core group.
She and I have dated in the past, but we didn't go very deep. Some dates, we didn't go…
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How to respond to people who don't believe where you're from?
I've observed situations like this occurring to a friend of mine (let's call him X):
Stranger: Where are you from?
X: [insert southeast asian country here]
Stranger: Are you sure?
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On very rare occasions, people are more direct/rude, and…
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