A 23-year-old explains how American confidence can backfire when hiring overseas. Americans come across as intimidating and loud, while people in other cultures tend to be meek and conflict-averse. His facial expressions give away what he won't say out loud.
Americans are intimidating. They're very opinionated. They're very loud, very confident. And then you have like 23-year-old me that's like very meek, never even talk to people that much. I don't have the guts to say no, right? The way to kind of gauge my response to things is to see my facial expression because I have a very expressive face and almost in a second understand that, okay, I don't like it, or there's something that I kind of want to talk about.
