Direct and Indirect communication across Western and Asian cultures

Direct - Indirect communication

"Westerners teach their childrens to communicate their ideas clearly and to adopt a "TRANSMITTER" orientation, that is, the speaker is responsible for uttering sentences that can be clearly understood by the hearer - and understood, in fact more or less independently of the context. It's the speaker's fault if there is a miscommunication.
Asian in contrast, teach their children a "RECEIVER" orientation, meaning that it is the hearer's responsibility to understand what is being said.
If a child's loud singing annoys an American parent, the parent would be likely just tell the kid to pipe down. No ambiguity there.
The Asian parent would more likely to say, "How well you sing a song." At first the child may feel pleased, but it would likely down on the child that something else might have been meant and the child would try being quiter or not singing at all."

Sources: The Geography of Thought How Asian and Westerners Think differently ... and Why" by Richard E. Nisbett