And you have to take into account the fact culture plays a role.<p>What&#x27;s your personal space? It varies based on where you were born and where you grew up. Invading someone&#x27;s personal space is perceived as aggressive and noisome and perhaps even threatening, which makes it even worse to assume it must be based on pathology rather than &quot;This person was born in Italy, I&#x27;m from Norway&quot; or similar.<p>Similarly, saying things like &quot;culture doesn&#x27;t excuse bigotry&quot; is rather pointless, given that culture defines what you consider to be bigotry in the first place. What&#x27;s perfectly tolerant and open-minded in Russia might be unspeakable in Liberia and vice-versa.<p>My point is, add a culture out of step with the mainstream notions of propriety to someone with even a relatively mild social dysfunction (not necessarily diagnosable!) and you have a &quot;harasser&quot; in the making, especially if everyone castigates them on the first offense and nobody tells them what they&#x27;re actually doing wrong.