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Sometimes, you're talking with someone and you just seem to click. Other times, you just can't seem to get comfortable: they're standing too close or too far away for comfort, making too much or too little eye contact, touching or not touching you in a way that just doesn't quite feel right. But where do our senses of what feels comfortable in a conversation come from, and how can they be so different from each other?
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the ironic thing is for a deliberately recruited and trained cross-cultural group is they are so bad at cross-cultural communication.
“The way that, like, oh, we analyzed a few businessmen in a boardroom and now they're avatars for their entire culture was the initial trap this was falling into.”
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