http://cac.ophony.org/2008/10/23/you-know-its-cultural/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:00:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cac.ophony.org/2008/10/23/you-know-its-cultural/comment-page-1/#comment-37182 Yukiko Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:21:16 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/?p=805#comment-37182 Hi Szidonia,As somebody also involved in the same project, I am happy to hear that you are having a good time working with Accounting students.Your post seems so inviting for a Japanese woman who has seen both sides of the issue you are talking about :-) and I must say that the issue you are raising is really tricky. In Japan too, in presentations or any public speaking situations one can be criticized as being too soft-spoken (and I got that criticism myself in my old days). So when you encounter issues that appear to have cultural baggage involved, the tricky issue becomes which part of the issue can be attributed to cultural factors and which part cannot. Maybe I will write a post on this... Hi Szidonia,As somebody also involved in the same project, I am happy to hear that you are having a good time working with Accounting students.Your post seems so inviting for a Japanese woman who has seen both sides of the issue you are talking about and I must say that the issue you are raising is really tricky. In Japan too, in presentations or any public speaking situations one can be criticized as being too soft-spoken (and I got that criticism myself in my old days). So when you encounter issues that appear to have cultural baggage involved, the tricky issue becomes which part of the issue can be attributed to cultural factors and which part cannot. Maybe I will write a post on this…

]]> http://cac.ophony.org/2008/10/23/you-know-its-cultural/comment-page-1/#comment-37176 Suzanne Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:04:44 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/?p=805#comment-37176 I like the cultural baggage bonus! I would love to get a few of those myself. I like the cultural baggage bonus! I would love to get a few of those myself.

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