Culture, Society and Business The principles of business transactions are based on cultural values. To define culture we must first know where culture comes from. Culture comes from a mutual interaction between individuals, groups, subcultures and societies. Values, ideas and ideology are passed down from one generation to the next. Gradually over time they adapt to change … [Read more...] about (Letter from oldson) Chinese and American Culture
Archives for July 2008
(Letter from deltaeco) The people´s republic of capitalism
This is an excerpt from Inside-Out China blog. Which again is an excerpt from Ted Kopple's 4-hour documentary, "The People's Republic of Capitalism." … [Read more...] about (Letter from deltaeco) The people´s republic of capitalism
Guiyang party secretary selection has a democratic flavor
Southwestern Guizhou province is again in the news, but this time for a good reason. Roland at ESWN translates a Xinhua article on China's on-going experimentation with political reform as seen in the city of Guiyang. Guiyang is trying to appoint party secretaries to four districts and counties, and chose to do so in a more transparent, democratic way. What exactly is the … [Read more...] about Guiyang party secretary selection has a democratic flavor
(Letter from Joel) Cultural differences: Let’s be brutally honest…
Let's be brutally honest... it'll be both funny and enlightening! The reality of culture stress applies to any kind of foreigner anywhere, though obviously different people have different experiences. I have no doubt that Mainlanders in North America are just as easily annoyed by Western culture as Westerns living in China sometimes are by Chinese culture. I assume they … [Read more...] about (Letter from Joel) Cultural differences: Let’s be brutally honest…
"You are quite Americanized."
I am thinking about writing a piece on "searching for a Chinese identity", not just at the individual level, but also at a collective cultural level. The heart of the controversies surrounding the Beijing Olympics is the building of a collective Chinese identity, who we are, what we stand for, how we present ourselves to the outside. There are a lot of confusions in this … [Read more...] about "You are quite Americanized."