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I didn't read this before. Training to suspend the influence of culture makes sense, if that's what happens. That sounds like Japanese pilots are trained such

I didn't read this before. Training to suspend the influence of culture makes sense, if that's what happens. That sounds like Japanese pilots are trained such that Japanese pilot culture overrides Japanese national culture. Best explanation I've heard for the differences in training. Off-topic, there's no space between the last word of a question and the question mark. Also, you're being overly aggressive in many of your replies about this topic.

chetanahuja 13y ago
I'm getting tired of this thread. In particular, I'll simply ignore personally directed snide remarks. I'll instead focus on the one sentence that actually addresses the topic at hand: "That sounds like Japanese pilots are trained such that Japanese pilot culture overrides Japanese national culture." I see an an insidious assumption implicit in that sentence. Do you spot it? Let me help you by changing the context a little bit. "Qantas has an excellent flight safety record. Sounds like Australian pilots are trained such that Australian pilot culture overrides Australian national culture." Those readers of this thread who're actually trying to understand the problems with "culturalist" explanations for professional performance should get my reasoning by now. For the others, I'm not going to waste anymore time going around in circles on this thread.
- foobarbazqux 13y ago
  Australian national culture does not include deference of the kind seen in Japan and Korea. I do not understand the point of the substitution. What is the assumption you are referring to? As for snide remarks, the bit about the question mark was correcting a repeated and minor punctuation mistake, and I genuinely thought you might want to know about it. However, in the context of this thread it was a bit of a passive aggressive cheap shot, and I apologize. That said, you're still being overly aggressive and your incivility throughout most of this thread is against the guidelines.

chetanahuja 13y ago

I'm getting tired of this thread. In particular, I'll simply ignore personally directed snide remarks. I'll instead focus on the one sentence that actually addresses the topic at hand: "That sounds like Japanese pilots are trained such that Japanese pilot culture overrides Japanese national culture." I see an an insidious assumption implicit in that sentence. Do you spot it? Let me help you by changing the context a little bit. "Qantas has an excellent flight safety record. Sounds like Australian pilots are trained such that Australian pilot culture overrides Australian national culture." Those readers of this thread who're actually trying to understand the problems with "culturalist" explanations for professional performance should get my reasoning by now. For the others, I'm not going to waste anymore time going around in circles on this thread.

foobarbazqux 13y ago
Australian national culture does not include deference of the kind seen in Japan and Korea. I do not understand the point of the substitution. What is the assumption you are referring to? As for snide remarks, the bit about the question mark was correcting a repeated and minor punctuation mistake, and I genuinely thought you might want to know about it. However, in the context of this thread it was a bit of a passive aggressive cheap shot, and I apologize. That said, you're still being overly aggressive and your incivility throughout most of this thread is against the guidelines.