Cultures differ greatly in communication; Germans think typical British politeness is overdone and suspiciously ornate, while to do things in KiSwahili in a "kizungu" way is to do them impolitely and/or overly hurriedly and brusquely, and comes from mzungu, meaning European or white person, and so on. Story-telling also differs much across cultures. The Egyptian way of telling stories is often a way of attaining intersubjective agreement between all hearers as to how certain events happened, or...