"I don't think that like fundamentally the question comes down to where the true obligation lands," he says. "In this case, it's actually the person doing the asking that sort of knows what they want." In a guest culture situation, if something is being hinted at, thenYeah, I think they have some obligation to at least try to hear that signal and model it,. Whereas in the ask culture situation, the guesser is effectively sort of socially blindsided, right? And from that perspective, I think it makes more social sense for the people doing the asking to try to mitigate the effect of that ask.

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