Intercultural perspective of inviting guests and dutch guy

 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 population.

Obviously, you can't say that some countries that believe in collectivism don't have economic problems, but I think it's a mistake to measure progress with collectivism, even if it's combined with other elements. I think it's still subjective.



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  1. Jules9 de junio de 2025, 23:19

    I found the saying incredibly fitting here! In my culture we also do everything possible for the guest to feel comfortable. It was a very nice read :)

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  2. Maximiliano9 de junio de 2025, 23:23

    Of course I agree with you, in Mexico we don’t hesitate to have guests, sometimes it just happens naturally and also sometimes the guest becomes a relative and it’s common to have them in our house, sometimes is annoying to clean the house everyday, specially if the guest is not our friend, for example parent’s friends.

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  3. Yuji9 de junio de 2025, 23:23

    "mi casa es su casa" is such a good example of collectivism. Also i like the last 2 sentences, good reflection on the topics!

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  4. Elsa9 de junio de 2025, 23:24

    Hola Emi,
    Thank you for your post! I like your mentality with "mi casa es tu casa" and I share that mindset as well :)
    Also I found it very interesting that data can indicate (to some degree) whether a country is more individualistic or collectivist.

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