DID now takes place of TII.
When a guy, standing in front of me and my flat mate in the left side of down escalator from platform at S-bahnhof Zoologischer Garten, despite noticing our presence and even told by those next to him that there were people waiting behind him, he replied "I DON"T WANNA MOVE SO I DONT MOVE", spontaneously did I shout on bourgeois Ku'damm "...ahhh it's very DID, Das Ist Deutschland!".
I was how surprised by myself, reacting in same way as 4 years ago...
It was when living in New Delhi that I was sharing one large flat with trainees, mostly grad school students, from all over the world (China, Nederland, Sweden, Bulgaria, Yemen and Germany). India was unique in that it was literally "foreign country" for all and we rarely spoke and understand Hindi, except for our poor vocabularies such as "theek hai/ acha/ haan ji" (alright/ yes/ hello - on the phone), which resulted in occasional failures in negotiation with local market seller who always replied "fixed price" no matter what he was told, or with auto rickshaw driver who didnt let the fare meter switched on in favor of keeping on endless bargaining which took us forever to discount as small as 5 rupees ( EUR 15 cents)... It happened more than once that we found one person paid more than double for same pair of shoes sold in Central Market, a nearest local market from our flat. After finding being deceived, moreover as an outcome of time-taking negotiation, one used to mourn "...TII!", which is the abbreviation of This Is India.
It was an great invention, I must say, since once you utter it, irritation goes away. It is not forgiveness nor compromising but something close to acceptance that comes afterward to your heart.
Cultural gap WILL happen and irritating people WILL appear. Instead of wasting time and getting annoyed, chant the three-letter incantation and keep calm and carry on ;) ( i'm not Brit, though!).