Thank you to David Pratten for posting this link in a comment on my site. This is an exceptionally interesting take on Romania.
The question Professor Geert Hofstede asks in his site is also worth thinking about: will there be one big world culture in fifty years time?
A Romanian academic economist told me that he thinks in 50 years Romania will no longer exist. I said surely people will still speak Romanian in 50 years time but he looked doubtful. English is more economically useful. A young Romanian Yale graduate whom I know hopes that by that time the majority population of Europe will be African, which she says will be a fitting recompense for the sins of European colonialism.
The question Professor Geert Hofstede asks in his site is also worth thinking about: will there be one big world culture in fifty years time?
A Romanian academic economist told me that he thinks in 50 years Romania will no longer exist. I said surely people will still speak Romanian in 50 years time but he looked doubtful. English is more economically useful. A young Romanian Yale graduate whom I know hopes that by that time the majority population of Europe will be African, which she says will be a fitting recompense for the sins of European colonialism.
Paul, this is not even a joke - who he? And can you SERIOUSLY have a meaningful conversation with ANYONE based on his - errrrr - data/results/theory? Have you READ it even? HAS ANYONE?
ReplyDeleteGive us a break - and let him cash in his however many-zeroed cheques elsewhere, this pig won't fly over Bucharest...
Kind regards
Ovidiu Galatanu, non-collectivist, non-whatever-"Professor"-Whoever-claims-I-am.
It's about as exceptional as a heart attack for a 300lbs person.
ReplyDeleteLet's not get carried away.
Andrei Postelnicu
For me, statistical approaches may be good when you have a sociological perspective, but not when you are an anthropologist that tries to understand a specific culture. Anthropologists approach cultures by considering they are unique and incomparable. They do not apply comparative questionaire-based studies that eliminate the possibility to understand specifics that do not apply elsewhere. To take this questionnaire-based pseudo study evern further, why not apply it to study pigmees, aboriginees, eskimos and then compare them to the Boston-Irish cop culture. I'm sure that will be enlightening for a lot of intellectual socialites.
ReplyDeleteAlain Cardon
More interesting in this area of comparative cultural study is Fons Trompenaars Riding The Waves of Culture
ReplyDeleteAndy Taylor
Interesting is a better word than "exceptional". Especially for a dataset that gives you a 90 score reflecting a culture where "punctuality is the norm"... Andrei Postelnicu
ReplyDeleteLuca, A., 2005. Where do we stand? A study on the position of romania on hofstede’s cultural dimension [online]. Available from:
ReplyDeletehttp://alingavreliuc.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/hofstede-romania-comparativ.pdf
The above link will work if pasted in to a browser.
Should feed the fire :).
Enjoyed the blogs I read.
Regards,
David Pratten