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This afternoon, my family went to a local warehouse to buy some kitchen supplies.
It was a chinese store, and the salesperson was a young chinese boy who spoke fluent chinese.
My wife picked out a fancy pan priced at \$35.
At checkout, I gave the salesperson a \$100 bill, and what happened next surprised me.

He grabbed a calculator to compute 100 - 35 !
This would never happen in China - everyone, from 10 to 80 could do it in their head.

I asked him, “You studied math in Canada, right?”
He nodded.

I’m not here to laugh at Canadians;
I have just started to notice the many interesting differences between China and Canada.

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