Brown Motion

I have often encountered people of Indian origin ask the same 'in the box' questions to me regarding my habits, history, education, job, upbringing, travels and on and on. I am of course referring to the idle chit chat that follows after they learn a little about what I do or where I have been. This is typical of the culture of trying to define what suits their limited mindset or awareness potential and the questions follow. Here are some choice examples - 1. After learning we were traveling to Malaysia this summer - Do you know someone there? My carefully worded response was - In fact it is exactly because we know no one there that we are visiting. One person also asked so - are there people there? or a milder version - So what is there in Malaysia - as the incredulous follow up. To which one can choose a wide variety of responses if you know what I mean. 2. So then you must be going to India after that? To which - this is a vacation I said so fill in the blanks. ...