http://rw-3.com Global Cultural Training for International Business Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:15:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://rw-3.com/2012/01/translating-british-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-66580 Alan M. Solomon Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:15:58 +0000 http://rw-3.com/?p=104341#comment-66580 Delightfully revealing and informative....how true that we Americans and the Brits/English are two countries divided by speaking the same language. Amazing that we can communicate at all sometimes! Delightfully revealing and informative….how true that we Americans and the Brits/English are two countries divided by speaking the same language. Amazing that we can communicate at all sometimes!

]]> http://rw-3.com/2012/01/improper-child-rearing/comment-page-1/#comment-66578 Alan M. Solomon Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:11:29 +0000 http://rw-3.com/?p=104301#comment-66578 Cultural differences and sensitivity are hopefully part of any intervention into a child's or a family's life. When the issue is not clear-cut abuse, or neglect (which is often not so clear-cut), then cultural practices deserve respect. The real question is, "How is the child developing?" If that is being impacted negatively, then some intervention may be needed, but not in a knee-jerk, reflexive manner by a state-employed agent enforcing their own cultural perspective in an insensitive manner. As a psychologist with some years of experience, and many years of travel and cultural experiences, this report is troubling. Cultural differences and sensitivity are hopefully part of any intervention into a child’s or a family’s life. When the issue is not clear-cut abuse, or neglect (which is often not so clear-cut), then cultural practices deserve respect. The real question is, “How is the child developing?” If that is being impacted negatively, then some intervention may be needed, but not in a knee-jerk, reflexive manner by a state-employed agent enforcing their own cultural perspective in an insensitive manner. As a psychologist with some years of experience, and many years of travel and cultural experiences, this report is troubling.

]]> http://rw-3.com/2012/01/translating-british-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-66417 Belle Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:17:58 +0000 http://rw-3.com/?p=104341#comment-66417 I totally agree with this. I worked with both Americans and British/English and their big difference is that Americans are blunt, they say it in your face while the English will try to be polite in anyway and so they fake it. I totally agree with this. I worked with both Americans and British/English and their big difference is that Americans are blunt, they say it in your face while the English will try to be polite in anyway and so they fake it.

]]> http://rw-3.com/2011/12/the-awful-german-language/comment-page-1/#comment-66416 Leslie Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:17:55 +0000 http://rw-3.com/?p=104166#comment-66416 As an American living in Germany who is struggling to learn the language, this made me laugh and realize, I'm not crazy! As an American living in Germany who is struggling to learn the language, this made me laugh and realize, I’m not crazy!

]]> http://rw-3.com/2012/01/improper-child-rearing/comment-page-1/#comment-66359 Stuart Agutter Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:15:22 +0000 http://rw-3.com/?p=104301#comment-66359 Astonishing! It's not even necessarily a purely cultural issue. All children are different and so are their parents. Remembering my own time as a novice parent, we tried our best and did whatever was best in terms of feeding our babies and helping them to sleep. It was sometimes different to the things that other parents, with different children, did. In this situation I feel the parents were doing their best for their child, nobody was hurt - and what difference does it make to anyone if they care for their child in a different way to other people? To take a child from its parents because of this seems barbaric. Astonishing! It’s not even necessarily a purely cultural issue. All children are different and so are their parents. Remembering my own time as a novice parent, we tried our best and did whatever was best in terms of feeding our babies and helping them to sleep. It was sometimes different to the things that other parents, with different children, did. In this situation I feel the parents were doing their best for their child, nobody was hurt – and what difference does it make to anyone if they care for their child in a different way to other people? To take a child from its parents because of this seems barbaric.

]]> http://rw-3.com/2012/01/who-works-more-in-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-66358 Mario Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:36:56 +0000 http://rw-3.com/?p=104278#comment-66358 <a href="#comment-66230" rel="nofollow">@Realist </a> It's probably a matter of definition: what does "work" mean in those places? @Realist
It’s probably a matter of definition: what does “work” mean in those places?

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