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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the big deal? You are going to give a gift.....just give them whatever you would have spent in form of cash, check or a gift card. No big deal. Jeez people. [/quote]

No, you are wrong.  [b]It is wrong to specify that you want cash.[/b] It is a big deal and stunningly rude.  [/quote]

It is rude to specify that you want cash -- in mainstream US culture, on most occasions. It's not universally true everywhere for everybody.

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However, we are IN THE U.S. I don't care what you're used to elsewhere. You're here now.[/quote]

We're in the US! We don't need to care what other people do elsewhere in the rest of the world! -- eh, PP?[/quote]

NP here.  What other people do in the rest of the world is all well and good.  The point is that when you come to the US and you do something that is considered rude here, you're going to rub people the wrong way.  e.g., inviting the whole class to a birthday party, most of whom are probably not used to YOUR cultural norms instead of those in the US and then specifying that you want cash for your six year old, which here is considered, as PP said, stunningly rude.  You'll probably get a lot of people just not coming (and maybe they prefer it that way anyway).[/quote]

No, most people  would think "huh, I've never seen that before:, might fleetingly think about whether it's rude, and then attend the party anyway.  FOrtunately, most people do not retaliate against small children for a perceived ettiquette slight on the part of the child's parents.  See? Here in America we don't do mean things to children because we are offended by something parents did.  [/quote]

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