2025 Emiliano's Blog

 Last week we talked about shopping culture, it was interesting to see that some people want to be treated almost like gods, as I am also a customer service related career I don't ask much from staff, as long they are polite and friendly I'm happy. In Mexico for example people is really nice and the workers and shop owners just start talking with you and asking about your day and how is life going, It's a really close and warm relationship with the seller that gives you more fidelity top the shop. On the other hand it seems that Japan has a more cold blooded service, but I think this only applies in some cases, I personally have experience warm experiences with Japanese vendors, luckily to be honest. I have some friends in Family mart and when I travel I have became friend with local sellers, sometimes even receiving presents and courtesies from then. Maybe because I'm a foreign that happens to talk their language, or maybe they like to be warm and are just shy about wh...

 This week we learned about inviting guests, it was interesting learning how Japanese people prefer to hang out outside as they find complicated or even annoying having to prepare their homes for the visits. To contrast this in Mexico we always invite people without thinking about anything, we usually have the house clean or we clean it before the visits, there's a saying that goes "mi casa es tu casa" that means my home is yours, so we offer everything we have just to make others comfortable, we don't find this weird, as friends are part of our family.  Changing the subject a bit, let's talk a little about the model of individualism and collectivism. This model establishes that the higher the profitability of a country, the higher its level of individuality will be. As far as I'm concerned, this seems a little incorrect because there are some countries that have strong sense of collective and make high profit  like china with the needing of increasing populat...

 Personally I've never gone to a cram school in my life, even though I'm not the smartest I never needed it, that maybe is because Mexico is not the strictest country in terms of education, which is good to be honest, I think the distance between different classes is not that big, you can hang up with anyone if you have the charisma you can make any kind of friends, on the other hand there's countries with higher standards and that make complicated hierarchies. That brings us to the power distance theory by the Dutch guy, I think it's a little dated, as you can use it as reference but you shouldn't use as a rule. I understand the concept but measuring a culture that way is kinda closing the perception to my own perception. I really like the class of last week, it was amazing learning and understanding about the cram schools the fact they are based on the objectives is really messed up, it reflects a lot the objective of education of each country sometimes overlappin...