How cross-cultural understanding can help us to see each other | Simone Buijzen | TEDxSittardGeleen

Originally from Sittard and fascinated by the psychology of people and their different backgrounds, Simone has travelled the globe for over 25 years. Starting out as a marketer for multi-national companies she has witnessed a lot of cross-cultural misunderstandings that though hilarious were often time and money consuming. Her love of people and her extensive international business experience inspired her to study cross-cultural communication and start building bridges between different cultures.

In her role as cross-cultural trainer and executive coach for over 12 years Simone has worked with leaders and their teams at multinationals and NGO’s all over the globe. She has also taken on the role of Advisor to the My Shining Star Foundation in Malaysia and has since made the Eastern Hemisphere her second home.

[alisyarief]

I fully understood what she lectured. It was not important to understand verbally but then we have to understand essentially the meaning was. Thank you

[michaelangelobelarma]

I'm only here because my teacher told us to watch this vid hahahaha

[wisdompeejay]

This is beautiful. Esp where she talked about looking through the yellow and pink glasses.

[janeiffellafable]

who's watching hereeee because of online classs??

[kathleenmorrison]

Thank you for the beautiful talk. I am going to be sharing it with my students this term:)

[orihoola]

"Gerber" means vomit in French, not Spanish. It is possible that might have affected sales in Latin America as she says, but not because gerber is a common word in Spanish

[yanqinglai]

As a Chinese, I can say not only her pronunciation of Benz in Chinese is totally wrong, but also the Chinese meaning of Ben Chi (which means drive very fast given the context - definitely not dash to death!)!

[leemabernadviji]

The word ‘swastika’ is a Sanskrit word (‘svasktika’) meaning ‘It is’, ‘Well Being’, ‘Good Existence, and ‘Good Luck’.

[suzannecordovamartinez]

Gerber does not mean vomit in Spanish....not any Spanish I know of. Vomitar, echar la pota, devolver....maybe you should check on that one!

[Amirmengalvlogs-xzkf]

today is my life's first interview and they told me that i must be prepared about the given topic that is cross culture😘

[Mp-mcpl]

“Nobody understands in India that we think about the Second World War” 10:47
I think they might have heard of it…

[intanclaudia]

I'm here because my english project

[tatianacastro]

Great! Your speaking is an enrichment. 🤗

[Randi-of]

Im only here because Cross cultural understanding class

[Justin_and_Mathias]

Interesting ted talk, thanks for posting!

[gamerelitetg]

im only here because it was in my english project

[panglilla]

Absolutely needed especially today’s world, the world after the pandemic and the world is still having the War today…

[Larry]

The wisdom within this content led to a critical shift in my thinking. A similar book I read was incredibly influential. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint

[MetalDecibelTeen]

Is it the same as intercultural communication what she studied?

[daub]

FYI, here in Vietnam no one gives a **** about soles of feet, I lose count of how many I see hanging out of car windows everyday.