Cultural Revolution
An intro to Perspectives on China
Well, after reading many blogs about many things, some great and some well, not so great… I decided that I would launch my own. My goal is to be one of the “good-ones”. So, I will begin with a straight forward introduction to the purpose and reason for the blog.
If you are interested in reading about me and my background you can click on the “About” tab. In a very brief summary, I am an American-Business man and as such I will follow a few simple business rules in this blog, hence my urge to state a “purpose” and a “reason” to launch the blog.
The PURPOSE is to help “newbies” on the subject of doing business and navigating through life in China. I will endeavor to bring as clean and neutral of a perspective as I can, with the clear “caveat” that it is “my personal perspective”. The REASON is because I feel that there is room for an additional blog that looks at China from my perspective. I was born in south America, but relocated to the USA when I was 17 years old, finished my schooling and began my career in Printing and Communications. I made my way through various roles in Sales and Marketing until I became Vice president of Digital Technologies at the largest Printing and Media Communications company in the World.
I entered the global market, well before the word “globalization” was even fashionable, although I am only half a century old, I had a cup of coffee at Starbucks when it was a “one-store” company in Seattle and I attended meetings at Microsoft for production of the DOS software. These references are part of the foundation that gives birth to my perspectives looking at China’s growth and current swing from being heavily dependent on the US and other countries for it’s economy to an internal “self-sufficient” economy.
My first post is titled “so Differently the same”, because I want to explore the perspective that we “Americans” are so different from the Chinese and vice versa. I highlight Americans, because that is what I am, but the cultural shock of arriving in main land China (even only a few miles from the border or Hong Kong) is applicable to most western countries including Europe and Australia. Yes, I know once you are in China basically there is China and the “outside” countries, which are broadly categorized as west. I will try to be blunt in my approach to subjects as my intent is to present perspectives on life, business and views of China and from China, however I will also try clarify statements when they represent a view that may be prejudiced or a generalization.
Lastly, I want to also set the stage for my readers with three different expectations that I have of my blog. One, I clearly understand that I will most likely incite not only positive responses or comments, but on occasion probably some negatives opinions, it is OK, I have done business now for over 25 years and in 11 countries, I have thick skin. Two, If anyone asks me to say my which is my, I always respond “is tied†(LOL), then I clarify is tied with number two. OK, so my native language is Spanish, however today I speak, read and write English better than I do Spanish so they are tied, suffice to say that I am a business man who can write not a writer by trade. Third, this is a commercial blog, there will be advertisements from companies or products or services that have relevance to the blog. I will try to keep these as noninvasive as possible.
I look forward to your feedback, questions and certainly if you need one-on-one help I can be reached through my contact page. Also if you would like to advertise on my blog it is best done through Google Adworks/Adsense. I will eventually launch a page for leads or mart like advertising.
