Chapter 3
THE TRAGEDY OF LANGUAGE BARRIERS
THE UNITED STATES is a typically extroverted country, even more so when it comes to the field of sports. It doesn’t matter a person’s age or gender; people in sports all seem to be extroverted all the time. As soon as sports marketers go outside and walk about, they seem like they’ve just killed a six-pack of Red Bulls with just how energetic they are. During meetings, abundant ideas are always bumping around in the air like atoms. The conference room is like a mini-universe filled to the brim with colliding thought comets flying every which way. I’m often unable to shield myself in time; either I’m left striving to make myself inconspicuous so I don’t get called on to give my opinion, or I spend a ...
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