skogstokig said:

"we" in the west don't tiptoe around the matter i guess and instead call each other cowards or variations thereof. and ducking doesn't bring great shame. i would suck at being chinese, or worse, korean. koreans are mental with their social codes. there have been air plane crashes because of that stuff

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straightline said:

Off topic but there's a significant difference between world beater vs world and world beater vs kid.* Maybe it's not real to Strickland. Maybe not. They both played well enough to win their engagements, that's all I can tell.

*see Strickland vs Seo

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Flakeandrun said:

Yes, these guys are smart. I guess ego is more apparent in these kind of scenarios and match-ups in East Asia due to 'face' being a big part of the culture. So it was probably more interesting to me, as I am watching a person deal with finding the way to present the right kind of 'face' (it's something that Americans and Europeans deal with in very different way in my experience).

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