recognising that different situations require different levels of politeness depending on the context and speaker, for example, a gift from parents to a teacher may be seen as a polite gesture in some Arabic cultures but as inappropriate in the Australian school context, while declaring an opposing opinion on a current issue may be acceptable in the Australian context but viewed as being disrespectful in some Arabic cultures
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