Couchsurfing and Hospitality Club are a travel revolution. Aimed at connecting between travelers everywhere, Couchsurfing and Hospitality Club have given traveling a new meaning. Every once in a while I hear of more people who are using those communities with extremely positive feedback. The concept is simple – if you have a spare couch, spare [...]
The new 7 wonders of the world have been announced : The New-7-Wonders organization is happy to announce the following 7 candidates have been elected to represent global heritage throughout history. Chichén Itzá, Mexico Christ Redeemer, Brazil The Great Wall, China Machu Picchu, Peru Petra, Jordan The Roman Colloseum, Italy The Taj Mahal, India These [...]
It is widely acknowledged that the Chinese culture has a somewhat different perception of how business is conducted. Guanxi, the Chinese social capital term, is the most widely discussed term to describe the Chinese business world, in both China and Taiwan. It is commonly used to emphasis the difference between Chinese and "western" business culture, and the difficulties [...]
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 [...]
How well do you know the world? think you know where every country is? Here’s a small game I came across to test your knowledge of the world map, demonstrating just how little we know about fellow countries and the big world . I’m very embarrassed to say I got 40 :$ http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/worldmap/worldmap.html (It’s interesting to [...]
A new project aims at defining the new 7 wonders of the world : In early 2006 NOWC released a list of 200 existing monuments, the only criteria being landmarks built or discovered before the year 2000. By October 2006 the list had been narrowed to 21 sites (how these 21 sites were chosen is [...]
