WHERE IC PROFESSIONALS COME TO TALK
SEPARATED BY AN UNCOMMON CULTURE
The UK and the rest of the world are separated by more than just a plane journey, as communications manager Julie Shield has discovered.
I recently watched a Michael McIntyre sketch about how holidaymakers from different cultures get off aeroplanes. While it was funny, it was interesting to discover when talking about it with my colleagues from those countries that many of the stereotypes we have of other nations are true.
International cultures have always fascinated me, but when I moved overseas in 2013, I, perhaps naively,...
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