Moreover, "In Zanzibar, you don't ask someone how many children they h ave. In East Africa, you can only count 'things.' People and other living beings are uncount-able. If you do so, you are thought of as rude and uncultured," says Tsai.
而且「在香奇葩，不作興問人家家裡有幾個小孩，東非當地文化只有『物品』才能點數計算，『人』跟有生命的動物是不可數的，否則被視為粗魯不文」，蔡珠兒說，這給了她很大的「文化震撼」。