"Cultural Respect" by Steve Adams

"Cultural Respect" I’ve learned a great deal from my Asian friends. While on a business trip to Nepal, I witnessed firsthand their deep, generational reverence for age. Younger colleagues engaged me warmly, but completely shied away from asking questions they felt were "above their place" to ask. When I returned back to the States, I caught up over lunch with a close Vietnamese friend named Tran. He is in his late twenties and very Westernized. We were having a lively discussion, but remember...