One of the toughest things about plonking yourself down in a new country is dealing with the constant tension between your own cultural values and those of your borrowed homeland. Sometimes the differences are so slight, it hardly matters. But when accepted practices in the host country are polar opposites of the norms back home, what’s an expat to do?

If you’re me, the answer is easy: you make a mess of it.

When I started working in Singapore, I struggled to achieve…

Glo· bal· niche, n.

psychic solution to your global identity crisis

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