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[Ryan Lanham]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have my doubts about Asia ...
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> how do you come to this conclusion?
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I watch the Asia Business Report nearly every night on the BBC.  In Cayman,
we are often modeling Singapore.  Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, India,
China...all feel very "American" to US business people.  My brother was just
in Malaysia and said the business meetings could have been in Cleveland
Ohio.  Same language...even the same jokes.  Businesses in Asia use the same
management theories and texts..the language of the MBA.  Finance and
efficiency are discussed in very similar ways.  Laws are often quite
similar.  Europe feels very different---more cultural...like the Gulf.  The
UK still feels merit-based to me...and elements of Switzerland and Germany,
but most of Europe seems focused on enabling their own people...I think of
Italy, Greece, Spain, France, the Nordics, mostly.  It is a very different
worldview.  It is very hard for people adopting one worldview to see the
point of the other's system.  I have an Australian accounting friend here
who loathes doing business with Europeans who he finds always want to drag
culture and nationality and "social good" into business transactions.
Again, Australians are very "American-like."  Most Europeans see that
worldview as backward or primitive. Most business people from the US-like
view see Europe as passe and absurd.  I think we don't point out our
differences enough.  I have many times in many places said I think the great
unblogged topic is the transatlantic difference.  It really isn't nearly as
big an issue in the Pacific.  Chinese culture is hegemonic in the Pacific
from Indonesia to Vancouver.
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