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 Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 2:36 pm |
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When I went to Japan in 1991 I had been told that Japanese consider
it a sign of respect to make notes behind a business card in order to
remember the person you met. Recently, I saw a senior MIS executive I
had not seen in two decades and she told me she was told the exact
reverse. The point that this brought home to me is that in the
constipated IT world, it may well be considered bad manners to write
behind a business card, but to Ivy investment bankers, the reverse is
true. It also brought home the point that I had learned going to prep
school with a lot of diplomat's kids: that first and foremost, you
treat the other person like a human being and you tolerate and
compensate for superficial difference by being attentive to the real
person underneath. I fear this is being totally ignored by the rote
stereotypical view of other cultures being introduced by
multiculturalists, many of whom only seek to display aspects of other
cultures which validate their own ideological biases. Incidentally, I
went to Japan, feeling I had learned many things about Japan, but when
I left, I was humbled by how no easy rule of thumb applied (esp when I
left the big cities and went to visit a college chum up north).
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| Bill |
| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:46 pm |
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It also brought home the point that I had learned going to prep
[quote:ed0445a977]school with a lot of diplomat's kids: that first and foremost, you
treat the other person like a human being and you tolerate and
compensate for superficial difference by being attentive to the real
person underneath. I fear this is being totally ignored by the rote
stereotypical view of other cultures being introduced by
multiculturalists, many of whom only seek to display aspects of other
cultures which validate their own ideological biases.
[/quote:ed0445a977]
Well said, I agree completely. Too many people concentrate on the outward
manifestations of respect, while inside they scorn and find it tittlillating
and amusing.
Incidentally, I
[quote:ed0445a977]went to Japan, feeling I had learned many things about Japan, but when
I left, I was humbled by how no easy rule of thumb applied (esp when I
left the big cities and went to visit a college chum up north).
[/quote:ed0445a977] |
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