Cultural Differences
Leon shares his experiences of adapting to different cultures, including the importance of body language and navigating language barriers. He also discusses editing out moments that would be disrespectful to the people he meets on his travels.In this clip
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195: Leon Logothetis | Surviving on the Kindness of Strangers
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Have you noticed from country to country differences in things like psychological space? Like how close do you get to someone before you start a conversation?
Well, for example, let's say I'm in a more Muslim country, I have to be a little bit more careful going up to the women. Because you know, it's not okay to do that. So I'll go up to the men.
What sort of the biggest flub that you've ever -- like I assume at some point -- you probably already knew you can approach women when you're driving across a Muslim country, but what other sorts of flubs or foibles have you found where you go, 'Wow, that's pretty surprising. I had no idea. Like, Oh, I didn't know the amount of eye contact I was making in Asia is rude'? That kind of little subtlety.