In Thailand we greet strangers as long lost friends.
在泰国我们跟陌生人像失去联络好久的老朋友一样打招呼。
May I take pictures?
我能照相吗?
There are even stories of half-trained elephant calves who have refused to feed and pined to death when by some unavoidable circumstance they have been deprived of their own trainer.