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Skriven 2006-01-09 08:04:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av CAROL SHENKENBERGER
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-=> Quoting Carol Shenkenberger to Frank Scheidt <=-

 CS> As well as more extensive experience overall in just dealing with
 CS> people from  other cultures than you have.  There's a term for a person
 CS> who speaks only one  language.  Mono-lingual.  I'm coining a new one. 
 CS> Mono-cultural.  Most  Americans are mono-cultural and in this, you
 CS> probably are main-stream while i  think perhaps, I am not.
 FS>  
 FS> That's where you're mistaken.  This is a small town but it's a 
 FS> very cosmopolitan community.  People come here to work from all 
 FS> over the world as it's the headquarters of what is *now* the 
 FS> world's largest chemical company.  I worked as a research chemist 

 CS> Frank, they are living in American culture there.  *Totally*
 CS> different.  You  are on 'home turf'.  I do not know how to describe the
 CS> difference but perhaps  one of the folks who travel alot can help
 CS> there.  Read Ward's trip diary for a  smaller sample though the first
 CS> one was more obvious about it all than the most 
 CS> recent one where he steps on a rattler and pees on a bear cub.

As for my being on "home turf", that's true enough.  However 
there are advantages in that as I can be more open in my dealings 
with foreigners than can someone who is on *foreign* "turf".  

Certainly it's not the same situation as *you* encounter.  
However I'll bet I've met more foreigners who are able to 
communicate more articulately than the average which *you* meet.  
I seem to attract Chinese like a magnet, for no known reason.  
They often would discuss things with me asking for advice, and 
I'd always help them.
 
 FS> There's one difference in our experiences in that regard though, 
 FS> most of the foreigners *I've* dealt with have been 
 FS> technically-trained.  You probably dealt with a broader 
 FS> cross-section of, say, Japanese.

 CS> And other peoples.  Mostly Asians but not all.  Korea, Singapore, Hong
 CS> Kong,  Darwin, Vladivostok, UAE, Thailand, Philippenes, Guam, are among
 CS> the more  common ones for me to go and live for a week or more.  I can
 CS> add Canada and  Mexico easily too.
 
I'm sure I've dealt with people with all of those areas -- and 
more ... though I cannot recall anyone specifically from Guam 
or Darwin -- some from Australia though.  I recall it was a 
friend from the Philippenes who taught me the proper way to 
pronounce "Tagalog" which was his native language.  I've known 
that for many years but had been pronouncing it incorrectly.

 CS> I may be unfamiliar with many cultures, but I adapt well to all the
 CS> ones i have 
 CS> been in.  I make friends wherever I go.
 
 FS> That's a fine attribute.  Actually *I*, too, have a lot of 
 FS> friends.  You'd not even *suspect* that, of course, reading how 
 FS> many in this echo try to attack me ... heh heh heh ... my 
 FS> attitude usually reflects the attitude of the participants in any 
 FS> echo.  People here tend to be intolerant.

 CS> People here react fast to intolerance.  There's a difference there.

I hadn't noted ... their rapid intolerance comes through clearly, 
of course, but I've not seen them *react* to intolerance.
 
 CS> be reaching to learn more outside of it but are stum
bling a bit as we
 CS> all do at first.
 
 FS> Ha!  I think diplomacy is in your genes ...

 CS> Perhaps ;-)
 
More than a mere "perhaps" ... 
 
 CS> While it isdoubtful you will ever rreach the point of having a laugh
 CS> with local 
 CS> shop keepers after a live eel escapes from your shopping cart in the
 CS> middle of  an open air market or a sea cucumber fight, you'll do well
 CS> enough if you listen 
 CS> to what the folks are actually saying.
 
 FS> I'm *far* more flexible than you seem to think ...

 CS> Perhaps.  I think there is hope for you.

I'll not take that as a subtle insult ... heh heh heh ...

... " ," said Tom blankly.

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