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For perspective, my country/culture is intolerant of people not interrupting - and not taking well to being interrupted themselves.

They're are seen as precocious uptight snowflakes - and their protest at interruption (not as in "let me finish", but as in protesting the notion of interruption itself as if below them) is considered impolite and in bad form. At best it's seen like, let's say, eating a slice of pizza with fork and knife in New York.

They are seen to want to monopolize the conversation, or make it not a real conversation (with interruptions, back and forth, and genuine exchange) but a series of monologues from each party.

If we're discussing, we're not there to hear a diatribe in silence. We're there to engage in conversation.



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