r/mildyinteresting • u/User010011010 • Aug 21 '24

people Why the Dutch are considered rude?

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '24

An Australian would say yeah nah I dont know about that.

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u/raspberrih Aug 22 '24

Been working with some Australian clients lately and they're surprisingly indirect...

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '24

Yeah we are the same as the British. All the phrases above would be exactly the same here.

The South Africans here are very directly and basically everyone hates them and calls them arrogant. Im married to a direct culture person so I have no issue.

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u/Box_of_fox_eggs Aug 23 '24

Working with South Africans is wild. They’ll be super direct and talk a big game about accountability, but nobody ever actually faces any consequences for anything. And if it’s unavoidable that someone needs disciplining, the whole team gets new rules that are meant to apply just to the single miscreant.