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I would reduce to a stream of words -- boot-licking, toady, lackey, stooge, sycophantic, brown-nose. I can definitely understand ladder-climbing in the workpla
by ihsw 10y ago
I would reduce to a stream of words -- boot-licking, toady, lackey, stooge, sycophantic, brown-nose.
I can definitely understand ladder-climbing in the workplace but there are countless instances of people acting without dignity or restraint. It's downright unsightly.
- imron 10y ago> I would reduce to a stream of words Thus proving gbraad's point? Guanxi is not those things you mentioned. Incidentally, it's not something that is difficult for foreigners to grok - they just need to have some exposure and experience with it.
- RCortex 10y agoHow do you build guanxi?
- imron 10y agoIt depends. Often it's by going to school with people, or having an uncle who went to school with someone, or similar. Maybe it's by taking people out to dinner and getting drunk with them, building up a certain type of camaraderie. Othertimes it's outright bribery. But this sort of thing: > boot-licking, toady, lackey, stooge, sycophantic, brown-nose. Rarely works to develop good guanxi.
- ihsw 10y agoAlright then, I guess we can describe it flatly as nepotism with Chinese characteristics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_characteristics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_charact... "When in Rome" and "know thy enemy" makes sense but the tasteless passion that people have for blatant cronyism is quite unpleasant. This may also be of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasta
- imron 10y agoNepotism and cronyism are definitely things that can arise out of Guanxi, but aren't the only things Guanxi covers.