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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe they aren't interested in consumer culture. Good for them! When I visited Bangladesh I was surprised lots of my husband's family did not have anything on the walls and they are upper middle class. They have maids and drivers, and send kids to expensive private schools, etc. In some cultures, they focus more on relationships instead of accumulating stuff. They also don't throw away stuff but repair it and they don't use lots of plastic bags, birthday goodie bags etc. [/quote]

But how will you know if they have any personality unless their travel tsotchkes are on display? Do you actually have to talk to them and get to know them if you can’t  scan their counters and walls for the junk they collect?[/quote]

The average Bengali hasn't stayed in a hotel or been outside their country. You need to be very weathly to do that. The conversations I have with his family are very different than anything I would talk with an American about. It usually involves what I am eating there (they think all I eat is pizza and pasta), they ask about my family and we talk about clothing. I get gifted a lot of traditional Bengali dresses while I am there and I wear them on the trip. We talk about the kids and simple stuff like that. Most of his family doesn't speak any English. My husband had a blanket from Kuwait airlines and I learned later his uncle gifted it to him and it's like 20-30 years old lol. I thought it was special for my husband because he got it on his first flight which was to the US but it was his uncles from years prior. My husband also told me he would use the same pencil the entire school year and when I visited I learned you can buy just one pencil.. or colored pencil... buying the whole box doesn't seem to be common.

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