Critical Cultural Skill

[WTF]

Originally Posted by discreetgent

Do not encourage him. He's bad enough as is.

[atlcomedy]

From posts over the last 2 weeks it seems the only "N-Word" DG is hearing is "no"

[atlcomedy]

Originally Posted by WTF

Explain it to him PJ, my damn PM system is outta wack!

Does that excuse really work...

[discreetgent]

Originally Posted by atlcomedy

From posts over the last 2 weeks it seems the only "N-Word" DG is hearing is "no"

LOL; very good!

[WTF]

Originally Posted by atlcomedy

From posts over the last 2 weeks it seems the only "N-Word" DG is hearing is "no"

No chit....hell I might have to buy him drinks and get him laid!

Originally Posted by atlcomedy

Does that excuse really work...

It is full. I delete some and the MoFo stays full.

Probably some commie conspiracy

[Ansley]

Originally Posted by WTF

It is full. I delete some and the MoFo stays full.

Sounds like you have had to send out a lot of explanations. Delete your 'sent' box.

[atlcomedy]

Originally Posted by WTF

No chit....hell I might have to buy him drinks and get him laid!




It is full. I delete some and the MoFo stays full.

Probably some commie conspiracy

Originally Posted by Ansley

Sounds like you have had to send out a lot of explanations. Delete your 'sent' box.

He needs to pull a Tudor and put an apology in advance in his sig line for not being able to get back to all of his PMs due to the volume

[Ansley]

Originally Posted by atlcomedy

So how is this southern blizzard treating you?

[atlcomedy]

Originally Posted by Ansley

So how is this southern blizzard treating you?

This shit is crazy...I'm up trying to figure out if anybody/business will be open tomorrow (or should I say this morning)...2 days of this is enough...

[WTF]

Originally Posted by Ansley

Sounds like you have had to send out a lot of explanations. Delete your 'sent' box.

Hey MissyPooh, you leave the comedy routine to the comedians

Originally Posted by atlcomedy

He needs to pull a Tudor and put an apology in advance in his sig line for not being able to get back to all of his PMs due to the volume

Go ahead make fun, you mortals can't possible understand, about the only person that can comprehend the demand on my time is my good friend Oprah.

[DFW5Traveler]

Originally Posted by WTF

That is a bunch of hooey.

Up until now we have not let science get in the way of religion.

We'd be backward fuc's like those third world countries had we.

I wrote that backwards btw so as not to offend our religious zelots

Their are many more reasons , like our relative isolation from threats, rich resources, bombing the factories of our competitors in WWII didn't hurt, and of course fake titties, we lead the world in big hair and big titties!

I would think that a zealot would be opposed to hanging out on an escort site. It would go beyond idle curiosity and they would be approaching the envy zone.

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by Rudyard K

Well of course. It's a WTF post.

A well placed double entendre: touché!

[guest010613]

Originally Posted by WTF

Hey MissyPooh, you leave the comedy routine to the comedians.

It states therein: "Anything which causes Ansley to post in any thread is acceptable and even encouraged. Whatever it takes to get one more view of her Avatar!!!!!"

Which will hopefully require another response from her.

[NinaBrooke]

Originally Posted by pjorourke

I came across this idea in a blog I follow:

"The secret of American’s collective success as a people is our ability to self-organize ourselves on both the small and large scale into highly effective teams The relative inability to self-organize into teams is why China and some other cultures have lagged behind in the modern world. Americans have long relied on activities like sports, theater, marching band etc to teach that one critical American cultural skill. ...

American culture is based on the seeming contradiction of extreme individualism combined with a near instant willingness and ability to join a team to accomplish any particular task. The way New Yorkers spontaneously organized to evacuate Manhattan on 9/11 represented a large scale and dramatic example of the type of self-organization that Americans reflexively engage in on a daily bases.

Germans and the Japanese also excel at organization and group work but they default to hierarchical, top-down organization. Absent leadership or a predefined structure, both Germans and Japanese have a relatively hard time organizing themselves. American organization, by contrast, is strongly bottom-up with very flat or even nonexistent hierarchies. No other people self-organizes to the degree Americans do."


Thoughts? Comments?

I think its heavily biased and not up to date. America without top down hierarchies in organizations? As opposed to germany? As a psychologist studying marketing psychology as well, i do know that the organizations all benefit from the same - western - research. So if there is top down organizations as opposed to bottom up ones, its not dependent on nationality. Plus do not underestimate the chinese. It is shown in researches that they tend to be more helpful e.g in Africa with developing countries because they are less hierarchical then the americans or the germans and go with the people and involve them in decision making. It seems to work better than the western-eurocentristic nose up high approache big cultures with a big fat ego like americans or germans seem to have. They go in adifferent country wanting to make everything the way "THEY" are used in doing stuff (top down - eurocentristic) instead of bottom up (invovling cultural biases) which makes the countries more dependent than self sustainable.
Plus the recent fall down in the world market show americans are - well - overrated :-)
Watch Brat 2 for a humourous view on american culture (Brother 2 a russian awarded movie with subtitles) and no offense - I love americans and USA. I just don`t think they are as good as they think they are. And USA is full of hierarchies. Full of it.

[NinaBrooke]

A little more on bottom up and top down in business strategies. Check this out! a handwritten pimp business plan ;-). (giggle)
http://www.youthradio.org/news/pimp-business-plan

especially the "take care ma bitches more better" shows the ultimate bottom up strategy.
while "maintain and campaign" refers to the more subtle top down investment in his plans

;-)