^ Good advice. Also observe how they react to you. They'll tell in subtle facial expressions how they're handling what you do.
I recently got a Blinding Flash of the Obvious with this again. I was talking to friend who's Irish and he'd react to the jokes I made differently than I was expecting him to react, so I'd explain the jokes cause I assumed he didn't get them. Eventually, he pointed out that he got all my jokes and I didn't need to explain them and I realized that he was just responding as he would in his social circle/Ireland and not like I expect my Canuck friends to respond. It's really subtle and really odd.
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