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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would guess that the foreigner aspect is contributing to this. Women who are born and raised here act very different from us foreigners. It's especially harder on white foreign women because people already expect a cultural difference with black/ brown women but not necessarily with white women.

Foreigners are a little too outspoken and naive about the US workplace culture.  ( these are neither negative nor positive qualifications, just differences), and it's hard to initially make that connection with women here. It seems easier for foreign women to connect with men and vice versa ecause there is not an expected natural connection on either side like there is with women to women relationships.

Acknowledge the differences, find some connection and try harder to form that relationship.
You have to really reach out to these supervisors and show them that you are eager to learn, very interested, and hardworking. It's hard to misinterpret our attitude as off putting and disinterested( you have to keep verbally selling yourself here vs. just showing your work in ways that would be considered obnoxious in our countries of origin).

Long story short: you( and your supervisor) are probably expecting a better relationship to form organically because you are both women. You have to try harder to connect.

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Yeah. This. I’m an American working in London with Scandinavian bosses. It’s been super challenging working through the many layers of cultural and gender assumptions at play. I feel like I should write a book with all I’ve learned about the importance of self-knowledge and being authentic to yourself, because that’s the only thing you can control. [/quote]

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