Asian Culture related research – what are you interested in?

If you could research anything that's related to Asian culture – China, Taiwan, Chinese culture or expat life in Asia, what would it be about? What are you interested in?

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In the past few months I've been contemplating about a research subject. The main theme for such research combines subjects that I've been involved with academically and professionally – being related to organizational behavior, business and information technology – with subjects that I'm passionate about – being mainly related to Asian cultures. I believe I must have had dozens of chitchats with various people discussing with them their views and observations. Most discussions were fascinating and could have served an interesting essay or an academic paper, if only for their compound anthropological  debate.

As an example – I found that the whole idea of how people and culture perceive each other surprised me.
Living in Asia it was mainly about the contrast between how the western foreigners perceived the Asian locals against what the locals thought about the foreigners. I tried to understand a little of both views, although the fact that I was a westerner has probably made it impossible to fully understand the locals. It was only after a while that I began to realize that it wasn't that straightforward and that the interaction isn't about two groups, since – obviously – foreigners can be separated into sub-country-groups which have different views and relate to each other in complicated interactions and as for the locals – they have their own complexities of sub-cultures and politics.
Moving into a different location in the UK has given me a whole new perspective on that, as I spent some time with Asians trying to make their way in a western society.

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I'm curious about what people reading a blog like mine are interested in. You know what? Let have ourselves a little blogging experiment. Not knowing who visits this blog I can't really say that I know who you  are, but I'm going to make a first attempt in directly asking you for your thoughts :

If you have any research subject idea or a research question regarding Asian culture you've been wondering about, either general or specific, wide or narrow, big or small, funny or serious, anything, as insignificant as it may be – then I would be extremely grateful if you'll share that thought with me by posting a comment to this post. One short comment is all I ask for. If you'd rather not post a comment then you're also welcome to email me at the following address : filination |-at-| gmail.com (replace the |-at-| with @).

I promise to post a list of those in an upcoming post with some of my notes.