I worked with a Chinese guy that could never understand charity. When I was gearing up, and fundraising for the Enbridge Cancer ride, he asked how much of the donations I got to keep... seriously. "I said none, 100% goes to charity." He could not understand why I would "waste my time" with that for people you don't even know, and said I should take some cash donations, and keep them. This is a guy that has been in Canada for 10 years too.
Seeing what is going on with this incident is helping me understand why he thought/felt that way.
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