cultural chasms (41.89001042401827 , -87.6708984375)
Some interesting research from the University of Chicago on cultural differences.
Asia thinks about "we" and America thinks about "I". "Keysar believes the Chinese students had an easier time
understanding the director’s perspective because they come from a more
collectivist society than their US counterparts. He speculates, for
example, that compared with children in China, youngsters in the US are
more likely to feel that it is "all about them".
In
another example, he describes how a Texas corporation "aiming to
improve productivity, told its employees to look in the mirror and say
'I am beautiful' 100 times before coming to work. In contrast, a
Japanese supermarket instructed its employees to begin their day by
telling each other 'you are beautiful'."