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Cultural Norms with Akvilina Reiger Everyone's A Foreigner
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"There was so much we didn't know because it was blocked from us. The iron curtain was real. It was like overnight we went from being part of the big ol' USSR to being free and independent Lithuania."
How do you go from have one type of expectations and known experiences in your first country and to almost literally waking up the next day to a new world that you never knew existed? And it's all in your home culture?
Akvilina Reiger has lived in the USA for over 20 years yet she experienced new cultural norms and culture shock in her home country before ever coming across the Atlantic Ocean. Listen to Akvilina and Janese share about learning new cultural norms and becoming so highly adaptable and flexible it's hard to prove or articulate in a tangible way.
Highlights include:
2 Facts & a MythHow family shapes our understanding of our cultureTraditional ways versus progressive waysWhy cultural sensitivity in American workplaces is vital to organizational cultureAkvilina's Top 4 Tips for Learning Cultural NormsFollow us @everyonesaforeigner on Facebook and Instagram...and remember, we're all foreign to someone!
"There was so much we didn't know because it was blocked from us. The iron curtain was real. It was like overnight we went from being part of the big ol' USSR to being free and independent Lithuania."
How do you go from have one type of expectations and known experiences in your first country and to almost literally waking up the next day to a new world that you never knew existed? And it's all in your home culture?
Akvilina Reiger has lived in the USA for over 20 years yet she experienced new cultural norms and culture shock in her home country before ever coming across the Atlantic Ocean. Listen to Akvilina and Janese share about learning new cultural norms and becoming so highly adaptable and flexible it's hard to prove or articulate in a tangible way.
Highlights include:
2 Facts & a MythHow family shapes our understanding of our cultureTraditional ways versus progressive waysWhy cultural sensitivity in American workplaces is vital to organizational cultureAkvilina's Top 4 Tips for Learning Cultural NormsFollow us @everyonesaforeigner on Facebook and Instagram...and remember, we're all foreign to someone!
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