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[Michel Bauwens]

ok, I see your point, and there's obviously a lot of truth to that. Thailand
for example is so much more american than european, in its adoption of
western influences,

but at the same time, the enduring family structures in Asia, and the choice
for industrious instead of industrial capitalism, both of which function as
a social safety net, and its saving behaviour, make it more european than
asian; despite how it may appear, Asia is a lot more 'social', welfare
oriented as the ruthless U.S. social system ...

some interesting links on comparative civilisations:

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/01/book-review-the-evolution-of-civilizations.html

but especially this:

- http://club.fom.ru/books/eisenst.pdf

-
http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=Lt1S3k8sJJ7Q9vvrrGrHw96yT8wGpJcWz1yBD2vLxmMYFN2YhT2X!-209669663!2144018255?docId=5001368530

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I have my doubts about Asia ...
>>
>> how do you come to this conclusion?
>>
>>
>>
> 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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