Waiters, shopkeepers, cousins, and teachers- everyone I met in Kerala was eager to be of help or service to others. Perhaps it is in their nature. When each of our two drivers ventured into unknown sections of a city and needed directions to a particular school, they simply pulled over to the curb, rolled down the window and asked whomever happened to be nearby for directions. Granted, sometimes the response was a wave of the hand to the east or head nod straight ahead, but I was impressed by the general willingness to help a stranger in need, as well as the men's tendency to stop and ask when they were unclear or lost. The latter, at least, rarely happens in the US.
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