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Questions that have a specific focus on people in Canada or Canadian culture.
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How to tell someone that I am not going to help anymore unless paid
I think the interpersonal skill you are missing is knowing how to decline to answer certain questions and direct the person to asking the right question.
For example, "when will you be home" is not th …
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How can I refuse to disclose my occupation, without marring friendship in slightest?
The best way to avoid answering a question is to change the subject and answer a different question. I often have to do this when, for example, people ask about other people and I'm not allowed to rev …
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How do I politely hint to customers to leave my store, without pretending to need to leave m...
Politeness makes it hard to tell them to do anything. However, brains are weird, and you may have far better success regretting to inform them of something you have to do, and the consequences for the …
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How to talk about what religious denomination you belong to without making the person uncomf...
I have lived in Canada for 50 years. …
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Friendly co worker suddenly distant/rude because of different views
You need to clear the air with this co-worker. Even if you were in fact secretly an incredibly racist person, and you briefly let your guard down and let it show (I'm not saying that's the case), your …
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How to decline eating food at a restaurant?
First off, this is awkward, and there isn't a lot you can do to make it less awkward. Very few people absolutely will not eat in restaurants. They may eat without enjoying it much, they may limit how …
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Why do men rise when a woman leaves the room?
That said, I live in Canada, I am a woman, and I don't believe anybody ever stood up when I left, unless it was to get up out of their chair and give me a hug and say goodbye. …
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How to express to my parents that I need more freedom
Parents, like bosses, respond better to requests for specific things (I want more screen time, or I want to cut back on ski-ing) than to general things (I want more freedom.) So it's fine that you're …
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