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"Intercultural Surprises" is the podcast that takes you traveling and helps you better understand the cultures of the world.🌎 "Intercultural Surprises" explores traveling around the world, customs and traditions, and discovering others as well as our own selves.
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Canada - The time "Pas mal" meant "Good job!" - evaluation, communication and intercultural anecdote (opens the original)
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Evaluation, culture, communication and an intercultural anecdote: does an Australian “Good job, mate!” really mean the same thing as “You did a great job” in French? In this new episode of Intercultural Surprises, I take you to France, where I met a young English-speaking Canadian whose experience at school made me reflect on the way we evaluate other people’s work… and on the cultural meaning behind both our compliments and our criticism. When she arrived in France, Adeline was surprised to see
Tunisia - The time I invented cultural generosity – hospitality, Tunisian culture, cultural anecdote (opens the original)
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Tunisian culture, Tunisia, generosity, hospitality and cultural anecdote: what if cultural pride was not always the best way to describe our relationship with our culture? In this new episode of Intercultural Surprises , I take you to Tunisia, where a brief and completely unexpected encounter with a Tunisian man on his lunch break profoundly changed the way I saw cultural pride. As I was showing my then-partner’s French parents around Carthage, a complete stranger came over to welcome us to his
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