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i went to MIT and studied abroad at cambridge for a year and the biggest cultural difference was that at MIT people competed to signal that they were working as hard as possible - "i stayed up until 3am" etc. - and at cambridge people competed to signal that they did not workhttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1186084266553143297 …
the ideal at cambridge was to look like you spent 0% of your time studying and 100% of your time drinking but still make it through school somehow. i really did not expect this. felt like a natural aristocracy thing, like signaling being a better kind of human
collecting RT-with-comments. i don't really know what this means but probably relevant:https://twitter.com/hpmacd/status/1187021683699474432 …
Related habit I have as a Brit - when I've rehearsed an argument really well, I'll add fake pauses as if if I'm improvising it as I go along.
cheeky (did i use that right)
Oh, that’s a very American thing to do: Stanislaw Ulam observed this difference at Harvard even in the 1930s.pic.twitter.com/DBeu3mP1B5
There is also the different attitude to overtime in Europe. In East Asia, friends work overtime to show they’re making an effort. The boss expects it. In Europe, structurally working overtime might make people question if you can actually handle your job.
When I go out of my way to signal that I work a lot it's usually because I'm embarassed about the pace of my output and feel a need to reassure others that I am taking things seriously and devoting enough focused time. In the reverse case it's more of an attempt to impress people
Points to a defect in the human condition around competition. Do the Brits think if you have to work hard you’re not that smart to begin with? I can see a student at Cambridge working just as hard as an MIT student but pretending they did nothing.
They still hold up the idea of the English country landlord is I think that really explains it
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