Excellent points all the way around and very well written.
One thing that seems universal with modern "westerners" is the compulsion to pigeonhole everything into minute and exact categories, when no such distinction was ever made or intended by the original peoples.
In biology, it's even more rampant, with many taxonomists writing doctoral thesis that, years later, end up being, literally, nonsense, while that same information is eagerly taken to heart by pseudo experts and purists who HAVE to split hairs, ad infinitum.
Many "eastern" dogs instinctively dislike people from western cultures, I suspect, because of our diet.
In SE Asia, many years ago, US soldiers were often heard making comments about the fishy "smell" of the locals, while in conversation after conversation I kept hearing that WE smelled like rotten meat.
If so, that's BOUND to get a reaction out of a semi-ferel dog used to scavenging scraps! **grin**.
Mike
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