I can somewhat agree as an Eastern-European. When I started to work for US/UK companies, I had to learn a lot about adaptation and interpreting the different si

I can somewhat agree as an Eastern-European. When I started to work for US/UK companies, I had to learn a lot about adaptation and interpreting the different signal set. The funny thing is that many (big) companies say that they're pro-diversity, they like and must have people from different cultures while in reality it's 99% about other cultures adapting to them. For somebody from Europe that's not that hard, but people from Asia usually find it much more difficult. And they're sometimes perceived as not smart/ignorant while they're just used to different kind of communication. We (technology workers from in Hungary or EEU) are usually perceived (in the eyes of US/UK citizens) as direct, honest, straightforward but sometimes very unpolite persons, while in reality we are just used to different gestures.