<they will go over and give others a wrong impression that they were sooo good.>

i don't quite get this part...mickey.

i mean they will usually exagerate a bit to impress others.

if they only know "1, 2, and 3", they will tell you things to lead you to think that they also know "4, 5, and 6".

that i agree...i can't speak for other parts of the globe, but i think that's part of the American culture. lol

<western culture has no such thing right>

i wouldn't say totally, the very knowledgeable few are often the opposite.

that's true.  

something along the line...

examples:

- i remember watching Taiwanese 星光大道 earlier, with 蕭敬騰 as the challenger to previous winner 楊宗緯.

while the show host was introducing 蕭敬騰, yet 楊宗緯's facial expression was also caught on screen, it appeared to me as if he was thinking "WTF...how dare you to challenge me?" (apparently he wasn't aware that he was being shot at the moment)

later when asked how would he react to the contender's challenge, 楊宗緯 humbly and softly (with his head tilting downward) expressed his acceptance of it.....真係 "攞你命３０００".

- i still recall watching Miss HK 1976 as a kid (yeah, really. lol) Winner - Rowena Lam 林良蕙's expressively animated reaction upon hearing the annoucement of her crown was heavily criticized at the time...

I guess anything out of the social norm (good or bad) is bounded to be criticized

but there are differences between troublemaker and maverick.

here i go again, expressing my alternative view points and sh_t.....YUP. lol

不過如果講緊既係娛樂圈，佢地又有另一套標準架喎.. 香港人或者中國人好似較難接受 d 自傲既藝人架喎... 明明有料，但自信心表現得太強就會被人話吋，試問有幾多個王菲呢?

hmm...i think that goes for anything publicly in our Chinese society.

又好似係喎... 不過對藝人會苛刻少許.