CIICPD 2023

I am not always with them for different schedule. To sum up, there were lots of struggles that we had and tried to manage throughout the semester. Fortunately, we were able somehow to work it. Due to COVID situation in the university, the course was held online and we didn’t ever meet in real life which made it more difficult to overcome this intercultural problem. Overall, I learned to always state what makes me uncomfortable in the first encounter so that things do not build in a wrong way along the course. Paying a bill in a restautant I was in Germany and went to a restaurant with a Greek and a Finnish female friends. Some Finnish guy who knew my friends joined us. After the dinner, the guy said he can pay the bill. Both my friends said that is not necessary. The guy said “ Ok. That’s fine.” So, everybody paid their own bills. Afterwards, when the guy had left both my friends started to criticize him that he didn’t insist on paying our bill. In my opinion, it was the fault of my friends. They should have accepted his offer to pay the bill immediately. Chinese Challenge I spent almost 1 year traineeship in Singapore, where I have experienced and faced Chinese culture. I was supervised by Singaporean with Chinese identity. Throughout my stay in Singapore in the organizational context I was experience quite a lot of clashes with my supervisor, because anytime I had to deliver presentation at work in front of her, I was interrupted and she was yelling at me that I should stop speaking and I should be rather silent and that I should have provided any arguments. My supervisor never wanted me to have constructive dialogue with her ,but she rather wanted me to be just silent and obedient employee. So, my feelings, emotions and status were totally killed and hurt by my supervisor. Her body language was rather showing all her negative emotions about me. Therefore, from management and business persctives I struggled with the Chinese culture, but from the life experience and perspectives, I had a great time in Singapore for that almost an year spent there in 2015. Greeting When I was first living in the United States, I didn’t speak English at all. It took me have a year to learn the language to the degree that I could start attending university classes. Having almost no friends because I was difficult to communicate with, knowing very few people, I always felt very lonely during my early time there. One day, I was walking through the university campus seeing one of my classmates approaching in the opposite direction. She greeted me with “hi, how are you?”. This was a big occasion for me, I felt like “finally, somebody cared about me”, so I enthusiastically responded with “thank you I am f-”, only to see my classmate to walk away. I was standing at the sidewalk looking at my classmate’s back, puzzled.

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