EU Questions & Answers

Naeron66, on 17 November 2011 - 04:13 PM, said: Its much more likley to be down to both Cultural and linguistic differences, part of my family are ethnic Russians (from Ukraine rather than Belarus) and in purely literal translations people's comments can sometimes seem "blunt" or "a bit harsh" as we might say in the UK, but to a Ukrainian its just the normal way of phrasing things.
Another example I have run across is in working in Turkey, to a reserved Brit the Turks can seem overly friendly in a somewhat weird way, but its just a slight cultural difference.