Sudan's Committee of Islamic Scholars has urged the president not to attend, for fear of his safety, providing Mr.Bashir a possible way of saving face while backing out of the trip.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

This helps us to explain, for instance, why in so many cultures the concept of saving face is so important, even if to most modern Americans it seems relatively trivial.

这就很容易解释，为什么很多文化里的面子问题,会变得那么重要，而对许多美国人来说,那都是小事一桩。

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