Chinese Glasses: Different Ways Of Thinking

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Chinese culture is a rules-obeying, process oriented culture, Western culture is a law-obeying, results oriented culture. What do you do when your Chinese partner thinks how you do things (process) is more important than what gets done (results)?

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[keithxchen]

Just according to your segment here: I am sure that you haven't read "Yi Jing". Please becareful to make absolute statements. China was the richest and the most techonological country on earth until 1800's. Lots of chinese inventions had contributed to move the world forward.

[TenTigersofChina]

I think you guys misunderstood, he was saying that Chinese place greater importance on the process than the results. I've been living in China for awhile and showed this video to some of my friends and they agreed with his conclusions. They are not absolutes but explaining the values of the society. They value harmony above results, thus guanxi is more important than your actual skills.

[VanillaSnow23]

Chinese are very creative and original, contrary to some prejudiced and biased Western perceptions. They were the first ones to invent Gunpowder and use it for weapons (not just Fireworks like some people think). They invented the first Compass, modern paper, first to Print (movable-type woodblock).....Just to name a few?

[lodproductions90]

Read the "Shengren" from Thorsten Pattberg.

[yumenyukuaile]

I visit the websites and post comments with the assistance of machine translation. Thanks my friends for their understanding, support and help."

在中国做生意，首先，做为朋友，建立诚信，互利互惠，互利双赢。

Doing business in China, first as friends, build faith, mutual benefit, mutual benefit and win-win situation.

[1ironaut]

Chinese people are the freekin original innovators, 1st to invent vaccines. true story, they crushed up smallpox crusts and had people inhale them and get a mild version of the illness with a .2-5% mortality rate instead of 20-30. They were doing all kinds of fancy exploring and investigating long before westerners

Chinese culture is not knowledge based??? Pah-leeze

[SilverFigure]

anybody can tell this man is a nutjob when he calls steve jobs an innovator LOL

they call him an innovator and claim he actually innovated things back in the day but that's lies, his name is on modern patents of modern apple products that he hasn't even really worked on

the man is a salesman not an innovator, he pretties up and sells what others create

[ThrillTVAsia]

Read up on Chinese history before you dare say we are not result-oriented, or that we only follow rules and we are not a "knowledge-seeking culture". Every culture in this world has its own unique ways of acquiring knowledge, to better themselves and to make a change in the world.

As far as I know, the greatest Chinese inventions have changed the world more than Apple has. I'm typing on a mac as I speak but I don't think it beats compass, gunpowder and paper printing.

[johanhellerstedt]

Ah, man! I just bought the collected works of Plato, 1300 pages, and you spoiled it for me in 1 sentence! Makes me wanna break your Chinese glasses!

[NoemieGanXD]

do not make assumptions or conclusion on anything you know, coz there are always lots of sides that you may not know or will never know in your life.

[pspecho]

Furthermore, he talks about results. Look at the many chinese inventions and tell me you don't see results... nuff said.