Culture Presentations

This Monday, we presented our presentations about the different business cultures around the world. The countries that were presented included: Japan, India, Columbia and one more that I can't remember. I found it fascinating on how different each respective countries culture in the business world is, especially from the culture that we are used to in North America. After my groups presentation on Japan, I actually learned more from my teacher Mr. Perosevic than I learned from reading articles that I found online. One key thing that I learned was that Japanese citizens are taught in school that they need to work as a team instead of individuals. I think that this is a great mindset to have, because it allows for their citizens to agree on things that would benefit their society, unlike what the United States has with the democrats and the republicans, who both just try to screw each other over as much as possible. It also encourages workers to work to their fullest potential, because they don't want to let the other employees down.

I found it stunning how similar some of Japan's habits are to the business culture of investment banks on wall street. Both cultures work extremely hard and lug insane amounts of hours, and then they party as hard as they can right after work, and of course  the crazy drinking habits that they develop are disgusting and very unhealthy. I also think that its very strange how Japanese men find it offensive when women wear pants in business related matters, as I don't understand how its offensive or why its only offensive in business related matters. I found it quite cool how much manners are important in Japan, they wont single people out, because it causes them embarrassment, and they also wont outright reject deals, because they think that it is rude and that it is embarrassing for the person or company that is getting rejected. Instead of outright rejection, they will say something along the lines of "We'll consider it".

All in all it was a fun project to work on, and I definably enjoyed learning about the different cultures.