This next piece is from one of the few Israelis writing about life in China from a blog "How to raise an Israeli family in China without knowing Chinese". It was so funny and interesting (and a bit nasty, Israeli style) that I just had to translate it to English :
Ni Hao, Ni Hao, [...]
China’s a big buzzword everywhere with its endless market opportunities, but Israel is especially pushing on strong. With the recent takeovers by large Israeli companies over local companies in China (Amdocs, Mercury etc.) and the rising attention China’s been getting in the financial newspapers that I read I think it’s safe to say that Israel [...]
I’ve been running Google’s Adsense program on some of the sites that I’m in charge of, and every once in a while I encounter a very insensitive sometimes awful Google Adsense mistakes. The worst Adsense problems usually happen in regard to the Hebrew version, which seems completely out of control with ads running things like [...]
China and Israel, Chinese culture and Jewish culture, those sometimes seem very different from one another. It’s usually easier to point out the differences than discuss the similarities, but looking deeper into the two it feels as though there are connections.
In the past few months that I’ve been back from Asia, I’ve listened to [...]
Western stereotypes about the work ethics and organizational culture in China, as far as I’ve heard, are about cheap labor, very low-tech factories, less than average quality and a bad work environment. Stereotypes are very tricky when it comes to the actual truth, yet they serve as some sort of a representation that may serve [...]
“Oh, this text you can not study in China…” they said.
Last week while in the university I met the Chinese students between classes for a quick lunch and showed them the text that we were studying. The text was very basic, considering the fact that we’re suppose to be second year level. They looked at [...]
