James Finn
Sep 2, 2022

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Yes! I experienced that too when I lived in Berlin as an American. And it's often the little insignificant things that add up to big cultural misunderstanding.

I lived in Berlin from 1985 until 1990, and one of the first things I learned is that if I wanted to be taken seriously, I needed to smile less, or at least to limit smiling to appropriate circumstances that were different to what I was used to.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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