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Look, I'm not thin skinned, and I'm not sensitive about criticism of my country. There's plenty to criticize; I'll be first, but again over beers, not in email, which never is a good forum for solving problems. I'm just surprised at your stereotypes. Working for a go-getter US high-tech company might not present you with many "typical" americans. I'm imagining the CEO of my last company storming into your office... but I digress. Speaking of stereotype, are you saying that N. Americans (Canadians too?) are aggressive, while Argentines are conflict averse? On Apr 28, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Alexis Cousein wrote: > 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). _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
