Re: [tlug] (OT) The enigma of Japan (was: UNIX jobs on TLUG)

[Doug McLean <dmclean635@example.com>]

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

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