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Originally Posted by Jack of Spades
I was thinking of the Northern half of the continental Europe. In continental Europe there is a stark contrast between the cultures of the North (Germany, Scandinavia etc.) and the South (Italy, Greece etc.)
Well, nobody likes being criticized, but in my culture, if I praise somebody the same way I sometimes see Americans do, everyone would think I'm just being dishonest and pretentious. In the culture I have grown up in, if you have only tons of ....
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We Americans are taught that as teaching professionals to give a few praises before a criiticism.