Some of them speak these languages with the mastery required for evenings of quick, spirited conversation and days of complex business negotiations. There are even some persons who are multicultural but monolingual, just as there are a few multilingual persons who remain inflexibly monocultural. In a foreign city . . By contrast, a monocultural person may worry about safety, the cleanliness of the glasses, the noise or something else. The complainer is the cause, not the local population.
Monocultural persons are usually unaware of their arrogance toward other cultures.
Even when they are aware of it, they are unable to hide it, no matter how hard they try. People of other cultures sense this arrogance and set up their own cultural barrier, effectively blocking any attempt by the monocultural person to motivate them. That Atlantic cultural barrier is at least as forbidding from the U.K. as it is from Germany or Sweden. This shows that the cultural barrier is completely different from the language barrier. Explanation of how we do this is available free to companies only.