While working for a philadelphia bank in kuala lumpur, malaysia, claire roberts met, quite unexpectedly, one of her female colleague at a shopping mall one weekend. the local malaysian colleague was accompanied by her five-year-old daughter. claire was so taken by the girl’s beauty that she patted the girl on the head while commenting to the mother what a gorgeous child she had. much to claire’s surprise, however, the mother responded by saying that the girl was not very pretty at all and then abruptly left. what had roberts done? she was simply trying to pay the woman’s daughter a compliment.