Missed Some Great Expat Links on Twitter? (September 21-22 edition)

Hi Everyone, I hope you are all enjoying a wonderful week! Here are some expat links I have tweeted recently, that might interest you...

Cartus Client Survey Names 44 Key Emerging Market Destinations for Corporate Transferees
bit.ly/nIVN5N

World's Weirdest Hotel Rooms (In Pictures)
bit.ly/r23R4s

Want a Full Copy of The Economist's Liveability Report? (Released August 2011)
bit.ly/pk4HZ3

Nice interview: WSJ Deputy Managing Editor Rebecca Blumenstein, wife of Big In China author Alan Paul
bit.ly/onvt0v

New post by Expat Life Coach John Falchetto
"How Can Leo Babauta Be Wrong? Stop Following Your Passion"
bit.ly/qMIxQg

Gorgeous Italian Vogue cover by chameleon supermodel Gail Elliott!
twitpic.com/6h6wee
PS. Missed Gail's Expat Women Interview?
bit.ly/it4xkA

US Expats: What Happens if the IRS Freezes Your Bank Accounts?
bit.ly/o0BiLJ

12 Rules for Expat Life in Korea
bit.ly/q8GT3u

Expats: Pampered 'Cry Babies,' or Misunderstood?
Business 360 - CNN.com Blogs
bit.ly/qp8bqA

Expats: Cross-Cultural Symposium, Indianapolis, October 13-14
bit.ly/qfmbZB

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Survey About Cultural Adaptation: Can You Help Jessie?

Hi Everyone, Jessie Wilson is looking for survey respondents please to her survey about how individuals adapt to living in new cultural environments. If you can help, either click the survey link, email Jessie or email her research supervisor, Professor Colleen Ward.

Many thanks, on behalf of Jessie Wilson, PhD Candidate, Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, NZ.

Does Yes Really Mean Yes? Trying To Interpret Cultural Behaviour

Hi Everyone, Simone Costa Eriksson of InterculturalPlus sent us a link to her new article on Brazil's Gringoes.com that might interest you: The Brazilian way of saying ‘No‘.

"As a Brazilian working for the international community, I am very often asked ‘why can Brazilians not be trusted?‘. In general, when attempting to interpret any cultural behavior, the first and most advisable approach would be to avoid generalization, but what if it happens too often, especially, through the eyes of foreigners? In that case, the safest explanation must be based on well-known intercultural theories: the concepts of contextualization and communication style as well as the cultural meaning of trust..."

A good article if you are an interculturalist always needing new material.

A good, quick read for expats who struggle with the collectivist-culture-influenced response "yes... which really means no".

Thanks Simone.

Cross-Cultural Blunders

Hello Everyone, We came across a great article today entitled Results of Poor Cross-Cultural Awareness, written (in 2005) by Neil Payne at Kwintessential Cross-Cultural Solutions, which gives more than a dozen amusing examples of cross-cultural blunders.

Take a quick read... you might find something in it to use in one of your presentations one day, or something to laugh about in your general expat conversations, or at the very least, something to make you feel that your own cross-cultural mistakes have not been so bad after all!