Many Taiwanese people are pretty blunt about things and they also don't have a "filter". This means that they if they think you're fat, they will call you fat since they don't really hide around the bush. I'm not saying that they are rude but if they believe something is true, they will say it.
Today I was waiting this morning at a bus stop and I didn't have my umbrella. It was drizzling outside but it wasn't raining hard at all and this lady looked at me and asked me if I didn't have an umbrella. I told her I didn't but it was okay and then she asked me what I was doing waiting without an umbrella. Honestly, it's really none of her business but that's how people are. They will comment about anything and they don't really care if it's none of their business. I just told her I was fine and waiting and she smiled and walked away. I don't know why she even talked to me since she was walking past me. I'm sure she was just trying to be nice but I feel Taiwanese people are more straight-forward about what they say and think compared to Americans.
Americans can be straight-forward to but I feel that they also like to sugar coat things like if someone thought they were fat, we would never agree to it. It's nothing bad or anything but I've really started to notice the differences in Taiwanese culture and what I thought was annoying from my mother and weird is common here lol
-Chihchat
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