Me Anglo, currently working for a French company with tons of immigrant co-workers so meetings are a dazzling display of accents and grammar. When I send a PR

Me Anglo, currently working for a French company with tons of immigrant co-workers so meetings are a dazzling display of accents and grammar. When I send a PR the French guys especially come off very snarky, and I mean they're a pretty snarky people, sometimes guys will throw the most savage insults at each other in meetings and it always lands as funny. Anyways I'm usually pretty good at taking criticism non personally but their pr comments can come off rough sometimes. I'm not sure I have anything to offer that is not just an anecdote, but it does sound like you haven't really internalized that what goes on in your head goes on in everyone's head yet. I remember when I used to take everyone's words at face value and therefore feel inferior; it took me much longer than it should have to realize just how much most people bullshit all day. You might be getting defensive, in other words, because you already felt insecure, and the source of that insecurity might be that you believe everyone around you is as self-possessed, competent and confident as they look to you. Let me assure you that they are not, they're just as much an ape as you are.