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: China Law BlogChina Cultural Awareness: Going Beyond Not Being An Asshole
By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson
R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to me R-E-S-P-E-C-T Take care ... TCBAretha Franklin Sang It, Otis Redding Wrote it. About a month ago, I did a post entitled, "Chinese Cultural Awareness Simplified: Don't Be An Asshole." In that post, I sought to sum up everything one needs to know about cultural awareness with the admonition (stolen from China Hearsay) not to be an asshole. I just came across a great post (that should be read in its entirety), entitled, "Questions of Face," over at The Sino Files blog. It details a conversation in which the Western blogger succeeds in convincing his Chinese employee to ask more questions. Note to Sino Files: Dude, you are good. Please post more often. I loved the following from the post:
In any event, this was one of several instances with my Chinese coworkers where addressing cultural differences respectfully and explicitly paid rich dividends. Sometimes, I?ve been the one to adjust my behavior, and sometimes they have, as in this instance. Other times, neither of us needed to adjust, we just better understood where the other one was coming from.I was interviewed for a law firm management publication a year or so ago on how my firm handles its diversity. I cannot remember exactly what I said (I am still trying to hunt down the interview), but it was something along the lines of the above. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Or, as Ali G. would say, Respek.
Full post as published by China Law Blog on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).
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