Cultural Differences
This article was originally written when Sensei Michael was still working in China. It is edited and republished here for the benefit of my readers. Sijngapore is a multi-cultural, multi-racial nation, but within this vernier lies a "Singapore" culture of its own, defined by a shared nation-building process over more than 40 years. The "Singaporean" culture, however, has been eroded over the years as immigration forced a nation where citizens comprises only 62% of the total population (and we have not considered citizens that were not born and bred in Singapore). In this post, I share with my readers what I have learnt in my 8 years in China, working not just with the Chinese but also with the expatriate community (my business serves the expatriate community). Singapore has a very detailed-oriented, serious and strongly communal working culture. It is probably why we Singaporeans are normally in demand as managers of very strongly process-oriented vocations (factor