Comments on: A Global Village? http://chinahopelive.net/2007/09/01/a-global-village A cross-cultural adventure with the personal side of China. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Joel http://chinahopelive.net/2007/09/01/a-global-village/comment-page-1#comment-1419 Joel Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:12:26 +0000 http://chinahopelive.net/2007/09/01/a-global-village#comment-1419 ha... I can almost guarantee that there's plenty of interpersonal communication, it's just broadcasted on channels that we aren't normal tuned in to. That's one thing that's great about Taipei - you can see how modern everything is, yet at the same time it can still be so different. I learned in Taiwan that I was wrong to assume that modernization pretty much meant Westernization. It just ain't so. ha… I can almost guarantee that there’s plenty of interpersonal communication, it’s just broadcasted on channels that we aren’t normal tuned in to.

That’s one thing that’s great about Taipei – you can see how modern everything is, yet at the same time it can still be so different. I learned in Taiwan that I was wrong to assume that modernization pretty much meant Westernization. It just ain’t so.

]]> By: Brian http://chinahopelive.net/2007/09/01/a-global-village/comment-page-1#comment-1418 Brian Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:59:01 +0000 http://chinahopelive.net/2007/09/01/a-global-village#comment-1418 Wow, this is so true. I never imagined how different the thought-world here could be. It is so difficult to fathom the way people here view driving habits, interpersonal communication (what seems to us as the lack thereof), gender roles, and a thousand other things. Often we think of culture differences being equivalent to the technological disparity between two places. Technology here meets and exceeds our expectations. The people in Taiwan are not without many techno conveniences. But this does not mean we can understand each other. We've got a long way to go... Wow, this is so true. I never imagined how different the thought-world here could be. It is so difficult to fathom the way people here view driving habits, interpersonal communication (what seems to us as the lack thereof), gender roles, and a thousand other things.

Often we think of culture differences being equivalent to the technological disparity between two places. Technology here meets and exceeds our expectations. The people in Taiwan are not without many techno conveniences. But this does not mean we can understand each other. We’ve got a long way to go…

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