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Chinese subtleties (Score: 1)
by ravenastro on Wednesday, June 16 @ 16:56:32 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Yes, I do think that the title was truly meant to conjure up such images - look no further than the rest of the article, wherein he quotes a white American businessman who says that Americans are used to dealing "straight-up." He uses this in contrast to how Asian Americans and Chinese Americans conduct business.
What's the opposite of straight-up deals? Shady, conniving, shadowy.
What I should have added in respects to this quote is, what do you call Enron? Or Global Crossings? Tyco? Worldcom? Adelphia? Accenture (nee Arthur Andersen)? Halliburton?
There are so many that the list could run on forever, really. All these "American" companies who think that it's ok to screw over grandmothers and families in the interest of lavish corporate jet and ice sculptures that pee champange. There are so many of these dirty backstabbing "American" companies that Forbes created a list of them just for 2002: http://www.forbes.com/2002/07/25/accountingtracker.html
I am sorry, jpma, but I don't know what the American School in HK has to do with the article at hand. |
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