Tiffany LiJul 20, 2023

American recommendation letters: “This candidate is the most brilliant person alive. I will never in my entire life have a student as smart as this one again.”

European recommendation letters: “This person completed the requirements for my class. They are currently alive.”

Show threadanonimnoJul 20, 2023
@tiffanycli Know exactly what you saying … there is a saying in this part of Germany I live in. It says in German “Nicht geschimpft ist genug gelobt” (not written in the Swabian dialect as I do not know how), this translates to something like “Not scolded is praised enough”.
Show threadKatja
@anonimno @tiffanycli 😂😂forgotten about this, 👍🏽, also including parents, it”s important to learn accepting criticism😊trying to overcome that learned behaviour😂😂 before speaking rephrase
Jul 20, 2023 at 8:13pmWeb
Show threadanonimnoJul 21, 2023
@Kaetchi @tiffanycli Oh yes!! Very hard when being influenced by the culture, not to apply that yourself esp on kids. A lot of focus on weakness that needs to get corrected instead of strength already there.