We don't have to be well-educated in order to conduct ourselves with some dignity in any setting we choose to immerse ourselves in. Although, of course it helps!

I've met many ordinary Chinese citizens doing menial jobs who behaved with total respect to each other and to me. They weren't well-educated by any stretch of the imagination. However, their manners were impeccable!

And many of them assumed me to be Russian on account of my ordinary and well-worn clothes, and my old-style mobile, not an i phone btw!

While shopping, I often overhear passers-by saying oorlooshi to each other, which means Russia.