Do All Cultures Have an Extrovert Ideal?<\/p>\n
Soft Power<\/p>\n
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi<\/p>\n
This section of Quiet<\/em> by Susan Cain explores the different cultural outlook of the “perfect” or “ideal” boss.\u00a0 Mainly looking into Asian countries ideals.<\/p>\n It seems that the extrovert ideal is not important at all to Asian countries.\u00a0 Indulgence of sound is important to them, but it is opposite from Americans where the sound they should indulge in comes from.\u00a0 Asian families would much rather instill a “listen before speaking” basis in their children.\u00a0\u00a0 Listening is much more important for finding information and making well rounded, well thought out decisions.<\/p>\n Personally, I think this is very important in the case of understanding Asian culture and people.\u00a0 In fact, I think this rule is brilliant.\u00a0 I do not find having grades for how much you speak in class, just to get a grade for being loud without understanding anything, is a good thing.\u00a0 I think it is lazy teaching and shows that culture in America prizes loud and noisy people over well thought out and well aimed articulate people.\u00a0 China and Japan prizes the quiet and well spoken people.\u00a0 They are number one in industry for a reason, and I think this is a beautiful way of thinking because it prizes respect and thought over being spoken over and not thinking about things.\u00a0 Obviously America prizes loud noisy people, our cabinet is full of them.\u00a0 Our president is a perfect way to show this.\u00a0 He is loud and intimidating, but as shown what has he to show he thinks?\u00a0 Not much but his words.\u00a0 His tweets sure don’t.<\/p>\n Back to the subject, the book gives examples of how surprised immigrants from Asian countries were to sit in an American classroom for the first time.\u00a0 Susan Cain met and interviewed Hung Wei Chien, a mother in Cupertino, California who moved from Taiwan to the U.S. in 1979.<\/p>\n “I remember bring amazed.\u00a0 It was linguistics class, and that’s not even linguistics the students are talking about!\u00a0 I thought, ‘oh, in the U.S., as soon as you start talking, you’re fine.”\u00a0\u00a0 while as she reminisced about her time as a child growing up and attending school back in Taiwan, she commented “The teaching back home is very different from here.\u00a0 There, you learn the subject, and they test you.\u00a0 At least when I grew up, they don’t go off subject a lot, and they don’t allow the students to ramble.\u00a0 If you stand up and talk nonsense, you’ll be reprimanded.”<\/p>\n This section of Quiet<\/em> followed the differences in what the U.S. prided its students off of verses what Asian countries prided themselves off of.\u00a0 It explains the importances they set on the basis of their counties and contributes to societal affairs and the economy of the country as a whole.<\/p>\n My take on this section of the book is that the United States puts too much importance on just talking instead of also talking to listen as well.\u00a0 I believe there needs to be a balance between the two.\u00a0 These are both incredible aspects to pride off of, but if there is not one to listen what is the point of talking and if there is no one to talk what is the point of listening?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do All Cultures Have an Extrovert Ideal? 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