Cultural differences can create some interesting misunderstandings.
Case in point:
In America (and as far as I know, in the West in general), females of every age, from little girls to not-so-little women, wear flowers in their hair to express (or give off the impression of) their femininity, beauty, and innocence.
In Korea, only crazy people wear flowers in their hair.
One day, my friend from Korea saw a girl in my school with a flower in her hair. Numerous people kept telling the girl all throughout the day how beautiful she looked with the flower in her hair, but my friend wondered why the girl was adorning her head with an accessory generally favored by the mentally unstable in Korea. She later realized this practice was considered beautiful here.
When she told me the story, I couldn’t stop laughing.
HAHAHA so true!