Problem 4. Passive-Aggressive Team Member Behavior. Project. Sales tteam. Team. Manager and interviewee, Mexican-American; otther members Soutth African, Romanian, African American, and Filipino-Thai. Challenge. "One guy who is half Filipino and half Thai, he even said tthatt he ttends tto be a little more passive-aggressive att ttimes. He equatted tthatt tto his Filipino cultture and his Filipino upbringing tthatt tthey ttend tto be a little more passive-aggressive, he kind of expectted you tto understand tthatt. And a lott of tthe ttimes we don'tt understand how he's feeling so itt getts tto almostt like a ttipping pointt tto where he's kind of had enough and itt'll escalatte almostt intto an argumentt att ttimes. He has a hard ttime verbalizing." Your