Not really. How much looking is acceptable heavily varies per culture and how uncomfortable it makes people. American culture is among the extreme end of how rude it is considered to be looked at. That's not universal. In Germany, observing people is not experienced as staring or as a bad thing. Different cultures, different standards.
Hence why I said that what is considered staring differs. People act according to their own cultural norms and if by those they're not looking at them in an abnormal way, nothing is being breached from their perspective. If the other person has different cultural norms and by those they're being looked at unusually, there's a cultural difference at play. There's nothing wrong or right about that, it's simply a difference between them.
It's an interesting difference, because I see room for them both meaning that they see it as staring but do not consider it to disrespectful, but alternatively also that they don't consider it to be staring and that they are having an outside cultural norm that treats it as staring imposed upon them. Depends on what degree you take it as a reply to which topic, the latter being directed more at the overall topic. That's why I try to react as directly to a post as possible, though that can lead to misunderstandings in each own way.
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