How old are you?
Well, in China, you could be a year or two older. How so?
In China, according to tradition, when a child is born, it is said to be one. When the Chinese New Year arrives, whatever the interval since your biological birthday, you add a year to your age.
This shows, that, even something as seemingly objective as one’a age can be culturally determined. One of the themes of this blog is that we live in a very varied world and need to know more about other countries and other cultures.