There are thousands of ways to speak English in the world today. When you add to this the countless number of cultural differences in communication styles and strategies it's quiet safe to assume that misunderstandings will  happen. The best we can do is to try and understand why this happens, learn to identify problems early and how to deal with them efficiently and with good humour. We should remember that we are interacting with individual characters but there are certainly cultural specific problems that occur when communicating with people from certain cultures.

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