261CULTURE QUIZ
To test your newly acquired knowledge, try this quiz
of situations typical of Bolivian daily life. How you
respond in the situations you are faced with from day to
day will depend on your ability to work through those
aspects of the culture that you find very different from
your own.
As you begin to pick up language and cultural nuances
and recognise and appreciate the attitudes you encounter,
your culture shock will pass and then it’s really time to start
enjoying the rewards of life in Bolivia.
SITUATION 1
It is Carnaval time, the Bolivian Mardi Gras, and you’ve
just been struck in the side of the head by a water balloon,
coming from the back of a pick-up truck in slow traffic.
Do you:
Take down the license plate number and report it to
the police?