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This is an interesting and apparently culture-dependent difference. Can you elaborate a bit on this, please? How it works, and why is it like that? What's the
by yason 18y ago
This is an interesting and apparently culture-dependent difference. Can you elaborate a bit on this, please?
How it works, and why is it like that? What's the mentality behind people's minds there? Does it hold for everyone, just geeks or everyone but geeks?
What do you have to say in order to look good? How truthful -- I mostly agree with the article -- can you stay while still keeping other people thinking you're good?
- danohuiginn 18y agoThink of it as analogous to bling. If you wear lots of gold, drive a sports car, etc, you're showing you've got enough cash to blow it on non-essentials. If you're self-deprecating, you show that you have enough status to waste it by downplaying your achievements.
- yason 18y agoSorry, I should have been more explicit; I meant the other way around. The self-deprecating dynamics I get, the U.S. version I don't -- probably just because of that :-) I would still appreciate thoughts on why and how?