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It's just a culture thing. My neighbors are Lebanese, almost everyone in the family either owns a store, or works for one of the other people in their store. On
by bluedino 7y ago
It's just a culture thing. My neighbors are Lebanese, almost everyone in the family either owns a store, or works for one of the other people in their store. Only a few of them have 9 to 5 jobs not related to the family.
They help each other out, you can use my van to pick things up, you can use the corner of my store to start your own store, etc.
- simonh 7y agoMy wife is Chinese and Chinese people are the same way. Families treat resources in a much more communal way than my UK family, but also outside the family networking and personal social bonds are crucial to getting things done and finding new business opportunities. I suspect this is how it is across most of the world though. If you can't rely on 'society' and particularly the government or legal system, you find ways to rely on each other instead. In the 'developed world' those social bonding muscles have atrophied away.
- nitwit005 7y agoThere's a danger of only seeing the portion of the culture that left their country with the intent to start a business. I see a decent number of Japanese businessmen where I am. I know they're not at exactly representative of Japan. They're part of companies that thought investing in Silicon Valley would be a good idea and were willing to move here.
- lazyjones 7y agoYou just "proved" that it's a family thing.