During the presidency of Carter, an American journalist asked president of Egypt Sadat whether he would visit America to hold the peace talk with President Carter. Sadat answered: " Invited or not invited, I will come." After reading this news, most Americans thought that Sadat was rude and arrogant. This made the Egyptians in America feel very surprised and hurt, because what Sadat had used was the most common way in Egypt to express the best wishes to solve the misunderstandings and recover the peaceful relationship.
Why do people in these two countries held different feelings to the same sentence? First of all, we have to know what lan