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Americans don’t like to acknowledge that other cultures have different aaproaches to business. Why is the implication is that these practices are wrong?
by dogruck 8y ago
Americans don’t like to acknowledge that other cultures have different aaproaches to business. Why is the implication is that these practices are wrong?
- cm2012 8y agoMany men are married and this stuff is frowned on for married men everywhere, including east asia. Also, it makes things incredibly awkward (to say the least) for professional women.
- oceanman888 8y agoCan confirm this, some people just chose to play mobile legend(a very popular mobile game in china) with the girls to escape the awkwardness.
- dogruck 8y agoThis fact is mentioned in the article.
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- hungerstrike 8y agoSo then they don't have to take part in it. Take your business somewhere else. I can't believe you're all going to sit here and complain about fucking booze and sex while at the same time, by doing business there at all, you're supporting a tyrannical fucking monster of a government!
- sn41 8y agoDouble standards like these are present in America as well. A friend complained to that a financial firm based in Georgia went through this entire rigmarole of checking his Facebook profile as a prospective employee, only to have the first group meeting in a strip club. He asked me, do they assume that they are never going to hire female employees?
- BadassFractal 8y agoI read recently that the Chinese have a term for that, something like "Western white savior" to refer to westerners who moralize about Chinese culture and act like they will show the morally primitive East the righteous way forward with their progressive views.
- icelancer 8y agoCorrect. Japanese do as well. The idea that Americans are going to bring up the cultureless sexist/racist/whatever Asians is indeed made fun of regularly. Well-meaning Americans have decent intentions but are also pretty culturally tone deaf on Asian societies; before we seek to export social justice, we should probably figure out how and why their societies are structured the way they are and understand the timeline you're looking at.
- coldtea 8y ago>Well-meaning Americans have decent intentions but are also pretty culturally tone deaf on Asian societies That. And because the country was founded by religious zealots, it still has a Christ complex to this day, regardless of if it involves a Bible Belter or a West Coast atheist. That and superiority ("manifest destiny", "leaders of the free world", "land of the free" and so on), it's just part of its cultural status quo.
- TangoTrotFox 8y agoIn Chinese it's baizuo / 白左 - literally translated to 'white left'. It also shows up in various other languages and cultures. I cannot even imagine how one might view the state of American socio-political movements for those who still have the 'great leap forward' in living memory.
- rconti 8y agoWell, for one, most things described here would be a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in the US; so if not morally wrong, it's at least illegal.
- bloak 8y agoCould you explain how it would be a violation of the US Act? The corporate policies I've had to read (without much interest as it's not relevant to my work) do not allow hospitality and entertainment for public officials unless it has been specially authorised by a senior lawyer, which suggests it's not clearly illegal in itself, though of course any attempt to "improperly influence" the official would be illegal. Obviously it would be bad PR to be involved with the sordid stuff in the article but I'm curious about the legal aspect.
- dogruck 8y agoThe US laws do not apply in China.
- xadhominemx 8y agoThese practices are objectively wrong. For one, obviously, they exclude women and gay men from participating equally in the work place.