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blah blah blah three stereotypical differences between america and africa, china, middle east, blah blah students have to deal with this blah blah.

Why is this on HN?

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"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.:

Why would good hackers find this article interesting? What do you find intellectually curious about it?

This is an article pointing to the difficulties of culture hacking: i.e. assuming the culture of one that's non-native to you. As an American engineer working in an Asian country, it was interesting to me to hear about the difficulties in cultural adjustments going the other way. It was also interesting to read about the stories of other people whip have had similar experiences. Both give me ideas on how I can better bridge the cultural gap that I experience in my everyday life here.

For me it touches on some things I experienced in college/grad school. Moreover the idea of "adjustment fatigue" is an interesting idea, and an interesting way to think about interactions you have with people from different cultural backgrounds. Do you only work with people from your exact cultural background? I don't, so I find these things interesting. Especially working in open source I often run into situations where friction is caused by cultural misunderstanding.

Sure, so how about a good article about it instead of this QZ garbage? Did you even read the article?

Chinese student is used to always having one answer but in America there are ambiguous answers.

Saudi student has to be around women and work with women. But it's different in Saudi Arabia

Really? Oh wait I forgot I have to have a absolutely mind-blowing statistic. Like you won't even believe this statistic. Click here to find out what it is!

It's like a more lengthy clickbait article targeted toward people like us. But it's just clickbait. Read for substance.

> Did you even read the article?

You literally broke the HN guidelines here. I agree that the headline is misleading, but nonetheless it promotes interesting discussions that can bring more value than the article itself.

no I did not. The headline isn't misleading, the content of the article is extremely poor.

Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's not a great article, you're right. But you've made the thread worse by complaining about it in a way that... made the thread worse. We share your concern for the quality of HN, but it's also important to let go sometimes.

Of course I read it, I literally used the term "adjustment fatigue" from the end of the article.

Yeah, the article is pretty thin, but it's an interesting topic that can promote an interesting conversation. If you don't like it, flag it and upvote something else or submit a better article.

I'm sorry, but none of your suggestions here are good solutions to this article problem. Speaking up and calling the article out, which is what I'm doing, is preferable.

""Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link. If you think a comment is egregious, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag' at the top. (Not all users see flag links; there's a small karma threshold.)""

The story isn't spam, or off-topic. It's bad. It's a really bad story that isn't worth reading. People are allowed to post things that are really stupid. I am allowed to point that out. Hopefully to save other people some time.

Again to quote the HN guidelines:

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link. If you think a comment is egregious, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag' at the top. (Not all users see flag links; there's a small karma threshold.)"

That's all I have on the topic.

>> The story isn't spam, or off-topic. It's bad.

> If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link

Perhaps there are people here who have experienced this themselves? Also, the fact that it's being upvoted is evidence it's of interest to the community.

To play Devil's Advocate, there is no downvote option so it's hard to gauge just how much folks care about a given article.

If it isn't getting upvotes it will quickly fall off the front page. This whole thread is a bit silly.

Once your karma goes over about 1000 you get a downvote on articles (not certain about the threshold).

No, you don't. Articles can't be downvoted, only comments.

Weird I'm sure I've been able to downvote articles on an old profile.

Ok sure. But instead of that experience we just have a very generalized article with some wild statistic. 40% of foreign students have no close friends? Really?

It's a garbage article that somebody is posting for up votes.

Is there an alternative article you would recommend for this topic?

Because someone submitted the article and readers upvoted it.

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