As a guy from Poland working for American and English companies for a while and playing a lot of D&D with Americans. The culture shock is real. Exhibit 1:

As a guy from Poland working for American and English companies for a while and playing a lot of D&D with Americans. The culture shock is real. Exhibit 1: (boss) great job team, could you maybe fix this one thing? (me) ok, if you say so, I thought we did pretty badly this sprint actually (my friend) he means that, it's just how British people say you're not doing great Exhibit 2: (my american Dungeon Master in the game we play) any feedback on the last session? I want to hear your thoughts. (me) it was great but I thought that X, Y and Z were kinda boring (other players) why are you so mean? Exhibit 3: (any American person) how are you? (me) actual response. (they) shocked. Exhibit 4: There was a poll in a huge american corpo I contract for recently, where teams from all over the world had to grade their experience with other teams. Mostly we don't interact with other teams so we don't have any experiences, the matrix is sparse, but we had to put a percentage in every cell anyway. Anglosaxons graded everybody 90%+. Eastern Europeans graded everybody but the few teams we actually interacted with - 50% :) There was a huge meeting for "solving the problems" and people couldn't believe it's normal here :)