I recently had a pleasant conversation with a young person in which he started showing me photographs of gifts that he'd given to his mom, and listing off prices. I'm always happy to see other people happy and I enjoy hearing people's stories, but the disparity in our respective incomes and that he thought the conversation was normal amused me greatly. The last gift he'd given his mom was a hundred and twenty times the price of the last gift I'd given mine. While in his social group, chatting about incomes and the prices of purchases is ordinary and accepted, I would be sternly dressed down by my family for talking about the same.
I challenge you to find a value that is foreign to you, or a subject that is generally taboo in your circles, and write about people who talk about it.
Money? Religion? Sex? Toe fungus? Go for it.
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