Communication styles vary from culture to culture.
When working across cultures, understanding different communication styles is crucial.
Communication styles vary from culture to culture.
When working across cultures, understanding different communication styles is crucial.
Work with Canadians or doing business in Canada?
In this blog, we're going to explore 3 core values that shape Canadian culture and business.
Guillaume Rey, a French waiter, was sacked from his job in a Canadian restaurant for being ‘aggressive, rude and disrespectful’
Upset by the sacking Rey believes his employers simply did not understand French culture. A complaint was filed against his previous employer, (Vancouver restaurant on Canada’s Pacific coast), under British Columbia’s 'Human Rights Tribunal', in which the waiter claimed “discrimination against my culture”.
Punjabi is the fourth most spoken language in Canada after English, French and Chinese, according to an official census.
While English and French are official languages, Chinese, Punjabi, Spanish, Italian and Arabic are the most five most widely-spoken non-official languages in the country. Punjabi is also the 4th most spoken language in the Canadian Parliament.
According to the census by Statistics Canada in 2006, the most widely-spoken non-official language is Chinese (2.6 per cent of Canadians). It is followed by Punjabi (0.8 per cent), Spanish (0.7 per cent), Italian (0.6 per cent) and Arabic (0.5 per cent).
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