I’m currently starting my first week of school in NCKU at Tainan on the southern part of Taiwan, supported by the Taiwan scholarship. The Taiwan scholarship offers 30,000NT$ per month for students for a period of 3 years. Usually, when I tell my Taiwanese friends about this scholarship and that I’m studying in Tainan, the response [...]
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A few weeks ago I went to visit Taichung, and saw a few cool spots. Visiting [...]
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Touring Taichung : Big Laughing Buddha, Art Street and Jing Ming Apartment Hunting in Tainan revisited Taiwan’s English Blogosphere - Introducing Expat Bloggers to local Taiwanese Best Taiwan blog awards – Voting now open on TaiwanderfulChina
The Chinese Israel bashing in response to China bashing on Israeli media Rare stamp : China’s “The entire nation is red” but Taiwan is white Israel at the Beijing Olympics : What do the Chinese think of Jews? Our medallists : Taiwan’s Chen Wei-ling and Israel’s Shahar Zubari
What makes “the East” different from “the West” and how? how similar and closely related are national cultures? Is there a way to measure cultural differences and investigate how cultures “behave” and interact?
In a previous post "National Cultures : Differences and similarities between East and West" I described the leading theory for national cultures suggested [...]
23 Jan, 2007 in
Studies
How well do we understand other cultures and how does that affect how we behave in crosscultural interactions? In part 1 I translated 5 questions of a cross-cultural quiz I participated in while taking Dr. Sagiv’s “Organizations and Culture” class and invited you to test yourself with 5 questions about crosscultural interactions. If we assume [...]
17 Jan, 2007 in
Studies
In Cross Cultural Psychology there are many sample cases for cross-cultural difficulties and misunderstandings, some of which have become classics. Last week I participated in Dr. Sagiv’s simulation about the some of those classics testing our cross-cultural knowledge and openness.
First, we were separated into two groups, each group with its own different ‘culture’ for performing a [...]
16 Jan, 2007 in
Chinese culture, Studies
The role of Confucianism in the Chinese society has gone through tremendous changes in the past century. After years of direct attacks against Confucianism by the Chinese Communists, Confucianism is on a comeback, and surprisingly enough it is now made mainstream by the Communist Party itself which is promoting Confucian studies and research in China [...]
China’s business culture is very different than how business is conducted anywhere else, with the world is still trying to figure out what Chinese culture means and the ingredients for business success in China. With the recent visit of the Israeli PM to China, newspapers were full of articles about China and the Chinese culture, [...]