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Chinese vs American Family
Don’t Tell Me What to Do!
When I was a teenager, I wondered why my American friends would brag about disobeying their parents—at home or in public. I sometimes disagreed with my parents, but I would never disagree with them face-to-face, much less in public. During my graduate studies about culture, I learned that the American family fosters what is […]
Business as Mission or Business as Blessing?
Are you looking to start a business to fulfill a mission or to bless a community? The latest ChinaSource Conversations podcast, “Businesses that Bless,” seeks to answer that and other questions related to doing business in China.
Lead Article
Business as Ministry
A look at one business that is being used effectively to bring the gospel to the people of one community.
Cultural Identity—East vs West
Or Why They Cause Me Stress
In Asia I experienced a lot of cultural stress but didn’t know why. Not only was I trying to adjust to a different culture, but I was also dealing with unconscious American and Japanese cultural values.
Guanxi
Or, Do I Have to Give Them Something to Make Friends?
When we lived in Asia, I was constantly asked for things and especially for money. Being a typical American, I was offended with their constant asking. I discovered later that asking for favors was a means of developing relationships.
Reciprocity—Goes Both Ways and Keeps on Going
As we have seen in my previous blogs, the Chinese family identity is very different from the American individual identity. A simple example—those with a family identity tend to use plural pronouns (“we, our, ours”) while those with an individual identity tend to use singular pronouns (“I, me, my”). We’ve also seen that Confucian […]
Saving Face
[…] lose face. When I was in college, for the first time I met people from many different ethnicities other than my Asian family members and white European Americans. One of the people I met was a woman from the Middle East. She was very friendly to me. One weekend she went home to celebrate […]
The Impact of Buddhism
Even When It Is More Cultural than Belief
Growing up in an American Christian church, I learned that other religions were wrong and of the devil. Therefore, I avoided learning anything about other cultures or their religions even though my own heritage was Japanese Buddhist—both sides of my family were Buddhist but did not observe any obvious Buddhist practices. In Asian culture, […]
The Importance of Filial Piety
Especially at a Distance
[…] At that time, I did not realize how bad we looked in their eyes by not being close to our parents in case they needed us. For Americans the term “filial piety” was something that people could chose to do if they wanted. Not everyone was expected to care for their parents. Both our […]