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Indonesia: Saying Thanks in Indonesia

Written byPreetam Rai
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Posted 23 May 2007 18 years ago

Sarapan Ekonomi starts of a debate on his blog by posting findings of a linguistics expert. The expert says that some Indonesians do not thank people whom they consider to be from a lower social group.

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