Yesterday’s lecture
was really inspiring! We watched short films introducing China and Japan, then through
directing our own “films” we compared the schools and workplaces in high as
well as low power distance.
As for the short
films, I saw many similarities between China and Japan, especially the
so-called modern cities in the two countries. That reminds me of the tradeoff
between traditional culture and economic development of a state. It is common
in some cities in China that old buildings have been used for commercial
purposes, causing serious damages to those buildings. From my point of view,
governments should carry out policies regulating the business in historical
buildings, for example catering is definitely not a proper choice. It will be
even better, if the current owner of that building could put some introduction
of its history in that particular buliding, so that those old buildings can be
used for business and also memorized by the people.
Concerning low
as well as high power distance, US obviously belongs to low power distance and
China is a country with a pretty high power distance. However, I found it
interesting that reformers in China really prefer the western low power
distance style. Take the recent education reform in secondary school as an
example, though the core value didn’t change much, policies like adding students’
participation as one of the grading assessments, letting students choose courses
they like as free electives and creating more dynamic lectures can be regarded
as efforts trying to move towards a lower power distance in the field of
education.
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