international realtors: Realtors: Have You Embraced a Culturally Diverse Clientele?
- 12/19/09 01:09 PM
As an immigrant to the United States at the age of 15, I learnt that I was indeed welcomed here with open arms. No one made fun of my thick accent. No one ridiculed my cultural idiosyncrasies, or the many words that seemed entirely out of line. Take for example the time I told my American friends: “I’ll be back within twenty minutes. I’ll just go take a quick douche and get ready”. “Douche” in Romanian means shower. That’s what I thought I was saying… There are several Romanian words that sound entirely inappropriate for the
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