Thanks, Pip, for the advice and for defending me.
For Something's-Sake, guys, of course all American women aren't the same, and I don't expect Polish men to be shaped by the Great Polish Men Cookie Cutter, but like Pip said there are certain behaviours and ideas prominent in certain cultures. I'm very very aware of that, given my mixed-minority ethnicity, the many-cultured environments I was raised in, and my study of culture at university. Don't get so damn defensive.
The culture that had most influence on my identity was American culture, and that's really ******* broad; it's highly-concentrated on the individual, despite pop culture conformity, and the dating culture that I adapted was one of pretty open expression of affection, except I'm also shy. Like I said before, I'm good at reading body language, but there is a cultural difference between the way Europeans express themselves, physically, and Americans do, in their social interactions, and then certain customs (like perhaps, oh I don't know, kissing someone once on the cheek every time you meet them, or kissing them two or three times on the cheek, depending on what part of the world you come from) that might be more Central European, more Polish, or more individual. I DON'T KNOW what's more cultural or more individual here, and I'm not at all familiar with Polish culture, even after living here for two months. So forgive me for asking a question.
Grumpy today, aren't we? The sun will come back eventually, guys.
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