Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Cross cultural differences between people from the same culture : Introverts and extroverts
I believe the number one issue most expats or international students feel they face is cross-cultural difficulties. Most find it extremely confusing and frustrating, not being able to understand how a person might think or act so differently. But, interestingly enough, the one thing I realized pretty fast was that cross-cultural differences are just anther version for personal differences. People from the same culture can be quite different. It might be true that the stereotypical average for cultures is different, but when dealing with individuals and not on an organizational or national level, one must consider that personal differences might attribute for more variance than cultural differences. I’ll do the mistake of giving a personal example. In a stereotypical generalization, I find that I …
