If you are a person who wants to succeed in the modern world, then don't forget to make more acquaintances with foreigners and internationalize your network.

In today's globalized world, the world is getting smaller and smaller, cross-border exchanges are becoming more and more common, and doing business, traveling, studying, and even daily life will give us many opportunities to meet foreigners. Therefore, it is also very necessary to consciously make some preparations and cultivate your international perspective.

On the one hand, foreigners may be our business customers or partners, and by establishing a relationship with them, we can expand our business scope and expand our international business. On the other hand, foreigners are different from our culture, look at problems from different angles, and do things differently, in the process of communicating with them, we can feel the conflict and integration of thinking and concepts, we seek common ground while reserving differences, learn from each other's strengths, and be able to look at and solve problems with a broader vision and obtain a win-win situation.

Of course, it is precisely because of the differences in cultural backgrounds that there are many practical difficulties in making friends with foreigners, and if you can make use of some of your own small strengths, it may be very easy to overcome these difficulties. Jin Yuejun is a professional manager, working in a foreign company, very fond of Chinese cooking techniques, and once enrolled in a training course to study. On weekdays, when he is fine, he often thinks of some new dishes. On weekends and holidays, he often invites foreign colleagues to his home to taste the delicacies he makes.

Not long ago, the company sent a Frenchman from its European headquarters to serve as the company's vice president, mainly in charge of Jin Yuejun's department. At the meeting between the vice president and the employees of the department, Jin Yuejun took the initiative to propose that his specialty was to cook Chinese food, but the vice president was very interested in this and said that he must taste it if he had the opportunity.

Jin Yuejun also firmly remembered this sentence, and it didn't take long to announce a family banquet, saying that he had recently learned a few new dishes for his colleagues to taste, and invited the vice president.

Sure enough, the vice president was attracted by his cooking skills, and later the vice president often visited his home and learned from him how to cook Chinese cuisine.

Of course, they developed a very good personal friendship, and later, the French vice president was promoted to the president of the company, which gradually promoted him, laying a solid foundation for him to become a famous professional manager. Due to cultural differences, it is important to be careful to adjust the way you make friends with foreigners. Chinese people like to be humble with each other, and they tend to deliberately shrink their abilities. However, when you interact with foreigners, you don't need such politeness, you have to say what you can do, otherwise the other party will mistakenly think that your strength is not enough, or you deliberately hide it from him, and appear insincere.

Another point is to pay attention to the politeness of the other person. Because different countries and different cultural backgrounds, the etiquette of communication is often different, and if you are not careful, then it will cause misunderstandings.

The huge differences between Eastern and Western cultures are also very obvious, for example, Westerners are very averse to being asked about privacy issues such as age, marriage, income, etc., while Easterners do not like to appear-for-tat and aggressive when talking to each other.

Only when we pay attention to the habits and etiquette of the people we are dating can we make foreign friends more smoothly and expand our contacts to a broader international space.