Thank you so much for sharing that!

What a fantastic passage.

I find very interesting, especially, the comments about the Americans appreciating blunt speech.

Sometimes we don't realise aspects of ourselves until we encounter contrasting aspects among others. Regarding blunt speech, my two coworkers from New York City are much more blunt and likely to say what they think and put everything on the table than the rest of the people at my workplace are. (Nearly all of us are Californians, either born here or lived most of our lives here.)

Most of us find the New Yorkers' bluntness refreshing. They say out loud what we are all thinking. Our tendency is to, as the officer above said, "sugarcoat" everything. I suppose California is a very "PC" place.

But one of our employees does NOT find our New Yorkers' bluntness refreshing. He finds it offensive. Interestingly he is not a Californian but from rural Canada.