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"That in turn had to do with convincing other people to take a chance on him and his script, and that gets you into a whole interpersonal area where the role of

• PaulHoule 6y ago
  Right, but if you were to test for "successful interpersonal relations" you would inevitably produce something culture bound. There was that time my wife and I got from the airport to the mountains in the Dominican Republic with instructions to use various forms of transport I'd never heard of, ran away from motorcycle taxis, shook hands with a police officer (along with everyone on the bus), walked into what we thought was a bus stop but was really a sports betting establishment, and caught the last bus to Ocoa which was a good thing because the only Spanish I knew I learned from reading half of Don Quixote and shopping at Home Depot -- it would have been awkward to find a hotel and regroup the next day. A person working across a cultural barrier to do a more complex task over a longer time has similar 'knife edges' to performance which will make everything fraught. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_ceiling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_ceiling "Based on publicly available government statistics, Asian Americans have the lowest chance of rising to management when compared with African Americans, Hispanics and women in spite of having the highest educational attainment."
  • mcguire 6y ago
    What you are describing there are specific handicaps.