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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gerard Griffin" data-source="post: 976703" data-attributes="member: 40140">A very interesting thread, which, like all aspects of the Camino, begins in the mundane  but soon takes on deeper meaning.I always suffer in silence, with an inner smile if I can.  People on the Camino come from diverse cultures with very different rules.  My culture obliges me never, under any circumstances, to reprimand a stranger.  Indirect cultures like mine consider this an intolerable insult, while direct cultures have the contrary belief that one has the right, even the duty, to reprimand and correct unacceptable behaviour.  But to us victims of our indirect anthropology, such chastisement is far, far more inappropriate than making noise or rustling a plastic bag.And then there are indirect cultures with an honour code ....relax, don't do it.  Let the Camino be a place where never is heard a discouraging word.  Sure never mind.</blockquote>