Saturday, March 16, 2013

Week 8 reactions by KU


This week comes to Yoyo and Katreena to lead the class. They did a really organized presentation on the topic of “long-term and short-term orientation”. They showed the difference between two from the aspects of family, marriage, workplace and economic. If we had one-million dollars, Chinese would like to save part of it while American would like to spend it. I found that the people here in US like to text. When my classmate here text me, the first thing I do is try to find them in whatsapp or other online chatting apps. In Macau, I usually spent my days in the university and home which are all wifi-covered. If I didn’t have network connection, in most of time I was on street or riding motorbike. Therefore, whatsapp can almost replace texting entirely in contacting me.

I was also impressed by a sentence concluded about marriage in US. “There is no reason to stay together if we have no love between”. It stated the truth that the divorce rate in US is higher in China. I saw a TV show in China which invites couples and talks about their problem in their love. There is one man come up the show and ask for re-marriage to his ex-wife because of their children. It also shows that in long term orientation countries, marriage means a lot more than love. Children’s future could be one of the reason of that.

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