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“The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new lands, but of seeing with new eyes”, said Marcel Proust. The significance of these words hit me one day riding my new red Vespa along an old canal in Milan avoiding the jammed main roads and feeling very “dolce vita”. It occurred to me that getting on a scooter after years behind a steering...

tckTCI loved and still do love Brazil. There is no other place in the world I know that is as friendly and welcoming as Brazil. Besides all the problems, it is still filled with “alegria” (joy) and a focus on understanding your particular situation and helping you find creative solutions to “impossible” problems. I guess Brazilians also have their fair share of practice in...

One thing that became clear was that the more I moved around and interacted with people from different cultures, the stronger my stereotypes became. Given that I was now in daily contact with many different people from all over the world, I needed to have some quick guidelines about what to say and how to say it, what to focus on, what small talk...

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