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What I saw in China and why you’re not the only peculiar beings

A colleague asked me the worst form of cultural shock I had encountered in my travel and I told him about the door-less gents' toilets in China. In that country, it is normal to find a guy doing his thing as if he were sneezing. Well, there were others, but you need your appetite so let us move on.

While covering the election and swearing-in of former Nigerian President Olesegun Obasanjo in 1999, I learnt something about his people's culinary habits. It is not even the fact that the only difference between breakfast, lunch and dinner is tea on the table in the morning. But meats, fishes, soups and accompaniments like rice and plantains are stacked in buffet bowls.

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