Can’t you just lie?
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I live in Cambodia, and while its not a caste system per see, your title – or in many cases someone in your family. So if you have a brother in law thats a general, all people that max know a colonel cant “fuck with you”. And “everyone” is connected some way, just a question of how high the connection goes.
So therefore, before Khmer people can get to know anyone, they need to know a bit about who you are, what family, what part of the city etc. And that is the questions they ask each other when they first meet, to then establish where on the ladder they are. If they are on the same ladder – great! If not, the person below needs to know.
As my wife explains it can get a bit tiring, but just the way it is…
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