Recently, I have listened to a guest speaker who gave a presentation in the career peers weekly meeting. The topic was “multicultural communications”. Many points were brought up such as, soft skills, following a mentor, the psychology in a work place, and many more. The one that drew my attention the most was the appreciation of cultural differences at the work place. As one of the speaker’s examples of cultural differences was that in Chinese culture, it is considered disrespectful to hand things using only one hand, and it is more appropriate to use two hands. When this example was given, I was reminded of an incident where me and other friends were being being served many plates at a Chinese restaurant. I recall multiple waiters passing each plate to me using their two hands each time which resulted in the service being too slow. At the time, I thought it was sort of inefficient and silly. ” Why cant they just pass the food faster to everyone so the service isnt too slow?”. When it was pointed out to my attention the cultural differences between many people by the guest speaker, I felt a bit ashamed because of me ignorance in the incident described above. On the other hand, I was also glad that I got to learn this at a young age, so I get to apply it with many more people, specially in resume and interview coaching with the career peers program.