{"id":2037,"date":"2004-03-15T10:34:54","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T13:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=841"},"modified":"2010-05-08T22:27:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T01:27:19","slug":"cross-cultural-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2004\/03\/15\/cross-cultural-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-cultural comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/presurfer.meepzorp.com\/archive\/2004_03_01_archive.html\">The Presurfer<\/a> (hey, no permalinks!) steered me to Robert Delaney&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/Broadway\/1906\/culture.html\">Cross-cultural comparisons<\/a>, by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zompist.com\/\">Mark Rosenfelder<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zompist.com\/amercult.html\">American Culture<\/a> page. There are links to dozens of other culture descriptions. Here&#8217;s a sample from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zompist.com\/brazil.html\">description for Brazil<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>You drive on the right side of the road. You stop at red lights if someone is around; otherwise you slow down. If you&#8217;re a pedestrian and cars are anywhere around, you better watch out carefully before crossing the street.<\/li>\n<li>You think of Argentina as a pleasant country with two cities: charming, cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, and beautiful Bariloche (where the Brazilian ski championship takes place). You think Argentinians as a people are arrogant and conceited, but you often like individual Argentinians.<\/li>\n<li>When you were younger, you considered the Volkswagen Beetle a dream car.<\/li>\n<li>The police are armed, sometimes with submachine guns. You are afraid all police are violent and crooked, but at the same time you would rather have them around.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in cultural differences, this is fascinating reading. If I find the time, I may write some comments for the Brazil page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presurfer (hey, no permalinks!) steered me to Robert Delaney&#8217;s Cross-cultural comparisons, by way of Mark Rosenfelder&#8216;s American Culture page. There are links to dozens of other culture descriptions. Here&#8217;s a sample from the description for Brazil: You drive on the right side of the road. You stop at red lights if someone is around; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-brasil"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-wR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}