I'm married to a Filipina and have traveled there many times and lived there for 3 years. It's very prevalent in business there to pat yourself on the back in a business deal thinking you are smart because you came out ahead, but the coming out ahead was because of self centered thinking.
A relative of the family borrowed 40 bucks to mill their rice then replaced the money with 40 bucks worth of rice. Then a few weeks later I hear back threw the grape vine why didn't I pay them 10 bucks for the rice since that what they sell it for to people on credit. So they are expecting me to pay for the rice at what they sell it on credit, but they borrowed the money to mill it from me. If anything they should have given me extra. Also I was expecting to be paid back in cash not rice... This all made me laugh.
So it must be an Asian thing to think as long as you got ahead its alright. China seems to support this theory
I used to have my living room with the pictures of my west wall with the Great Wall and the Terracotta army. My East wall had the Gaza Pyramids and the temple of Hatshepsut. My southern wall Machu Picchu and Tiwanaku. The pictures in roughly the directions those sites are located, but I no longer want to go to China.
I'm married to a Filipina and have traveled there many times and lived there for 3 years. It's very prevalent in business there to pat yourself on the back in a business deal thinking you are smart because you came out ahead, but the coming out ahead was because of self centered thinking.
A relative of the family borrowed 40 bucks to mill their rice then replaced the money with 40 bucks worth of rice. Then a few weeks later I hear back threw the grape vine why didn't I pay them 10 bucks for the rice since that what they sell it for to people on credit. So they are expecting me to pay for the rice at what they sell it on credit, but they borrowed the money to mill it from me. If anything they should have given me extra. Also I was expecting to be paid back in cash not rice... This all made me laugh.
So it must be an Asian thing to think as long as you got ahead its alright. China seems to support this theory
Only modern communist China. Traditional Chinese would have found this unacceptable. The country is run by peasants.
Ayup,
I used to have my living room with the pictures of my west wall with the Great Wall and the Terracotta army. My East wall had the Gaza Pyramids and the temple of Hatshepsut. My southern wall Machu Picchu and Tiwanaku. The pictures in roughly the directions those sites are located, but I no longer want to go to China.
If you want true, traditional Chinese culture, try Taiwan.