Cultural Conundrums Substack
Kate ElwoodA biweekly newsletter mostly presenting research on Japanese culture
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 12 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 2 years ago |
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Collectivism’s conundrum: Bifurcating the binary
In my two most recent newsletters, I explored some of the research that suggests that Japan is not as collectivist as many people typically imagined, based on six indicators in 188 countries: 1) total fertility rates; 2) collective living a...
Collectivist Japan? Really? (2)
My last newsletter —Collectivist Japan? Really?— introduced the research of social psychologist Brett Pelham and four colleagues, who created a Global Collectivism Index (GCI), ranking 188 countries based on six indicators – 1) total fertil...
Collectivist Japan? Really?
In a well-known scene in the 2004 film Sideways, the main character Miles, played by Paul Giamatti, says, “If anyone orders Merlot, I’m leaving. I am NOT drinking any (expletive) Merlot!” Such was the intensity of the sentiment and the popu...
Sorry, not sorry: When the customer is not always right
Last month, , the “Real Gaijin”, had an interesting post titled "Even in Japan, the Customer is Not Always Right". It was about customer harassment and the measures some Japanese companies are taking to cope with it.
It reminded me of a pi...
Knowledge exaggeration: Are you sure you really know it?
I’ve seen the CVs of some Americans that wildly exaggerate their Japanese ability, designating knowledge of a few phrases as “working-level competence”. And then, conversely, the CVs of some Japanese fail to even mention their English langu...
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