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- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:05:21 +0100
- From: Doug McLean <dmclean635@example.com>
- Subject: Re: [tlug] (OT) The enigma of Japan (was: UNIX jobs on TLUG)
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote: > No question about it. I'm not saying that you can't, nor that it's > harder in Japan than in other cultures if you go about it correctly. > > What I'm saying is that *regardless of how talented you are > linguistically* to succeed in Japan you have to play a different game > from the one that you would play in Ireland or France, and a very > different one from the one that Japanese play among themselves, > especially in business. (I find purely social relations to be very > much the same as anywhere else I've been. It's business and academia, > and from what I can see politics, that differs from other cultures.) I think this succinctly explains it nicely, thank you. :) -- Doug McLean Blog: http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/
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