curiouser and curioser.
I was born in 1928 so when WWII ended, I was seventeen years old. We had been locked up in Holland in rather difficult circumstances and then suddenly I could go out and see the world. One of the things I did was work as a ship's engineer, and I made a trip to Indonesia in 1947. I was still a student and it was a way of seeing part of the world. It was my first time out of Holland and I found myself in this foreign country and culture. Also influential at that time, but perhaps less exotic, I met an English girl and went to visit her in England. Suddenly, I discovered that lots of things were different between England and Holland, which I hadn't realized. There is quite a difference between British and Dutch culture, and that was probably more of a culture shock for me than visiting Indonesia. (с)
влюбляйтесь в инопланетян иностранцев - может, и вас это приведет к великим открытиям.
(Geert Hofstede - автор магистрально-фундаментальной работы о межкультурных различиях; хотя женился все-таки на родной-и-понятной голландке.)
влюбляйтесь в инопланетян иностранцев - может, и вас это приведет к великим открытиям.
(Geert Hofstede - автор магистрально-фундаментальной работы о межкультурных различиях; хотя женился все-таки на родной-и-понятной голландке.)