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Originally Posted by chris
Maybe wanting to know how much a bike costs is only an Indian (subcontinent) thing? Wherever I travel (been bored recently in these C19 times, so worked out I've ridden a m/c in 82 countries), I try to meet people. I don't really recall being asked very often how much my possessions/ vehicle costs. The once or twice I have been asked, the conversation was terminated pretty sharply by me blanking the questioner/ not understanding the question.
In recent times I've also tried to ride the roads and tracks less travelled = less people and less likely to ask city-dweller type questions.
In Indian I travelled on a locally rented bikes, so any money obsessed local would know the price of things.
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It may well be an Indian thing.
I went to a fee paying catholic school which often had international students who would come for a year or two if their fathers were working in the Uk.
An Indian lad was in our class for a year. He would always ask to borrow whatever we had, ask us how much it cost, then ask if he could keep it. It was very strange at first but he was always unemotional about the process - eventually we got used to it.
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