by Chris Smit | Jul 21, 2022 | Business, Countries
How to Shake Hands in Other Cultures: To Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands [3-mins] How often do you kiss if that’s the way you greet each other? In Belgium, it is once. In the Netherlands, it is three times. In the USA, you air-kiss (kissing when only the cheeks touch,... by Chris Smit | Jun 1, 2022 | Business
The Most Common Cultural Diversity Mistakes [3-min read] These are the most common cultural diversity mistakes we’ll cover in this article: The lumberjack syndrome You Think We’re All the Same They Don’t Get It (but you do) I Just Don’t... by Chris Smit | Apr 29, 2022 | Business, Countries
Democracy and Cultural Diversity [4-min read] This writing is an attempt to explain, from a cultural point of view, why Democracy is not a World Universal “thing”. Democratic elections in Pakistan, Russia, Afghanistan, and Burma? The list is far from... by Chris Smit | Apr 5, 2022 | Business
In a previous post on Humor in Different Countries (2012), I tried to make a point about humor not being culturally neutral. (Click here to read it). I don’t think there are many people who will disagree with the above point. In order to illustrate the... by Peter van der Lende | Mar 21, 2022 | Business
The term ‘economics’ comes from the Ancient Greek oikos, which means ‘house’, and nomos, which stand for ‘custom’ or ‘law’. In other words, economics is really a social science about the ‘rules of the house’. Macroeconomics, microeconomics, business economics,...
by Peter van der Lende | Mar 21, 2022 | Business
The phrase ‘Trust but Verify’ was emphatically used by former US President, Ronald Reagan during his dialogues with Michael Gorbachev, then-leader of the Soviet Union. Reagan picked up the phrase from an American writer called Suzanne Massie, who told him that...
