In Reply to: Manners for Balinese posted by minty on Wednesday, 12. July 2006 at 14:39 Bali Time:
it is their country and if we don't like it maybe we should stay home. Not meaning any offence but I don't think it worries them to much if we do put a foot wrong. Mind you I'm nearly 60 and the grabbing and hasseling doesn't worry me to much and I find if you sit and talk to the hawkers sometimes they forget they were trying to flog you something. When they would call me Mama I thought they
were trying to be funny but know now that really it was a term of endearment and respect.