Tom Stermitz wrote: > You've been watching too much US television and too many of our > Conservative politicians.
Uhm - I happen to work for a US based company, you know. I *am* familiar with more than the stereotypes. > In the cultural sense, individual N. > Americans are more likely to be relatively conflict averse. Yes, but not actually in the same *way* that someone from BsAs. would be. For one thing, they're much less afraid of losing face, which fosters a more direct method of communication (in which you don't pussyfoot around in a conversation). I'm not judging anyone - just pointing out that it's natural for someone to travel to somewhere else to be surprised at how culture may influence patterns of behaviour and ways of dancing - and to enjoy some of the differences. It's not just *they* that cast away their inhibitions; there really *is* something different in the air. The grass is indeed a different kind of green on the other side. > Anyway, you will find that on the individual level, people are pretty > warm and friendly, no matter what the culture. Of course (though you'd hardly guess from reading tango-l, which seems to regularly illustrate Poe's Law very well -- but of course, people are rarely the fire-breathing dragons they are online¹;) ). The way they dance around each other in the social dance, though, isn't exactly the same in all cultures (which explains the plural). -- ¹Except me, of course. Fourth man: "I am a gorilla." -- Alexis Cousein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Engineer/Solutions Architect SGI/Silicon Graphics -- <If I have seen further, it is by standing on reference manuals> _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
