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ES Saying 'I Don't Know'

<span style"background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">How easy or hard is it for people in your culture to come out and verbally say, “I don’t know.”? In general how do people ask for and share information?<span>


Juan Martín Espinosa (Mexico City, Mexico) "Very well, what happens in Mexico, as I mentioned before, we greet everyone with a smile..."

Roxana Danae Bannach (Santiago, Chile) "Well, in Chile normally that people are very direct and if they don't know where..."

Idalia Tijerina Treviño (Monterrey, Mexico) "Well, a visitor asked me a few days ago for the directions to get to the..."

Rossana Montalto de Talavera (Lima, Peru) "I share your opinion. I believe that Latin Americans concentrate more on the person..."

Juan Emilio Vila Naranjo (Lima, Peru) "Well, in the business world, given how the question was asked, Peruvian executives..."


Authors: h.brinsko.