Chinese people and the concept of embarrassment? That's face culture.
Vladimir Putin doesn't like being couped? That's Stalinist mentality.
Kenyans and healthcare? That's the witch-doctor-zeitgeist, baby.
Chinese people and the concept of embarrassment? That's face culture.
Vladimir Putin doesn't like being couped? That's Stalinist mentality.
Kenyans and healthcare? That's the witch-doctor-zeitgeist, baby.
Culture was real but culture is more flattened that it ever has been before, particularly culture in industrialized capitalist countries. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of etiquette that can still be different, particularly around family and sexual mores, but every year the flattening grows greater.