Gosh Meme really sounds like a lazy simple minded egocentric person in that podcast video about networking. Can't relate to anything the English people (so she really meant Brit instead of English, she still has no clue after 10 years in London) talked about in pottery class because they talk about office life and use references she doesn't get => so instead of choosing to not educate yourself about that culture, to integrate yourself and enrich your life with people from different backgrounds, you choose to stay in your ignorance and in your communotarism. Alex kind of looked at her thinking "I don't understand what she doesn't understand in making conversations, like just ask questions
".
Bottomline is, if she can't talk about herself then she's not interested.
She is not interested in learning about your office life and struggles, even though she could learn what being an employee means for the sake of her own employees, she's not interested in understanding British humor. She could have asked where these people were from, as clearly she had no way of knowing whether they were actually English or not since she didn't make the conversation with them. She could have asked about their families, their kids as that's something she can relate to...
*MEME IS A WORLD CITIZEN REMEMBER GUYS! *
She said in previous podcast that she hated highschool because as an immigrant it was really hard to make friends in Canada, being Called a FOB. But her friend in that same podcast says that she was so extraverted she was exited to meet new people and that highschool was the best time for her and that she went on benefiting from a Canadian student scheme for immigrant students who needed financial help to study at university. That woman maybe had people calling her a FOB too but she didn't stay in her victim state.
She just sounds like the type of person who doesn't want to make an effort to integrate. And while she critics small talk calling it shallow, she produces the shallowest content on a daily basis, gives out the shallowest advices on a daily, uses that as an excuse not to build deeper connections with people outside of her safe bubble, doesn't proactively engage a deeper conversation like she says but instead wait for someone to ask something that would spark her insecure mind to talk about her safe topics. She goes through life by avoiding any mundane uncomfortable situation, and therefore cruelly lacks basic social skills. So much so for getting out of your comfort zone, being proactive instead of living like a victim, being extraverted etc...
Quite easy to see that without Alex she wouldn't be where she is today. How on earth would she have found another buisness partner without the basil communication skills it requires? We already knew she was incapable of running the day to day financial and logistical aspect of a company, but now we also know she can't even push herself to things like networking.
Also, she is now trying to pronounce words in a more British way. Better is now pronounce with the emphasis on "tt" for exemple. Oh she must have such an inferiority complex. Voicing her unrequited disinterest for British culture, while simultaneously trying to come off as this educated rich European family dressing your little girl in uptight formal dresses. As Deliciously Ella is British yet has a seemingly common interest with Meme which is plant based eating, Meme should be able to have a conversation with Ella. Yet Meme will always find an excuse for not being able to talk to ladies like Ella. That's maybe why all Meme's besties seem even dumber that her, makes her feel good that she can spread her little knowledge about gratitude and "did you know polyester is plastic
".