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So, during my travels to Southeast Asia, one thing I noticed is that tourists speak disparagingly to the locals when the locals are speaking to them in English. And it makes me disturbed because—I give you an example—one of my colleagues during our meetings in Jakarta, he apologized to me right from the beginning. He said, "Sandeep, I am very sorry, my English is not so good." And I looked at him and said, "Dude, your English is much better than my Bahasa." I mean, come on, I can't even put one whole sentence together in Bahasa; this guy can hold a one-hour conversation with me in English.

Pay attention to what is being said, not how it is being said, because the person who is speaking to you in English in a broken accent—he speaks multiple languages. He or she—they speak multiple languages. They are inherently smarter than you. Wait for them to start speaking among themselves in their local dialect, and then the shine will come through. People are just amazingly brilliant. Don't get fixated on how they are speaking; listen to what is being said.

Okay, that's it. Bye!