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Are Americans actually considered “extremely direct”? Any foreigners on here able to chime in on if that generalization rings true?
by jimbob45 3y ago
Are Americans actually considered “extremely direct”? Any foreigners on here able to chime in on if that generalization rings true?
- yaky 3y agoAs a Ukrainian-American (more so the latter, I've lived in the US for the past 20+ years), US corporate culture requires making any statement into a very polite, almost optional, suggestion ("would you", "it would be great if", etc). Several times I was accused of being "rude" when I made a direct statement. So it is not exactly direct, but I don't have a good cultural reference to compare to either.
- z3n0n 3y agoAs a German-Israeli, both of which are extremely direct cultures (in different ways), I feel there’s a lot of “dancing around” in American communication culture that seems silly.