Geared towards standardised testing, which always raises IQ test scores.
According to renowned forumosan Roland, all it takes for Taiwan to break out of such a predicament is for Taiwan to adopt an Israeli attitude toward things. Whatever that means.
Maybe so, but no one, no one, would say Taiwanese strike them as being particularly intelligent in a worldly sense (or maybe I mean intellectual) in their everyday conversation. I mean, youâd get more interesting conversation out of the cockroaches in your food cabinet.
This is valuable information left out of the equation for @IulusGrun
Maybe theyâre just looking for good conversation.
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I was thinking maybe yes, we can develop a super duper weapon that will keep the Chinese at bay⌠eh, nope. Shock and awe works only with people who have something to lose, and Chinese have people to spare. And any sophisticated weaponery would just give the Chinese an excuse to bomb us to oblivion. So nope.
The demilitarization worked in Central America against US invasion but that requires a semi decent adversary who fears losing face by attacking a defenseless âenemyâ. I do not think Tibet had an army, so yeah, that approach will not work.
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Yeah, but scintillating conversation and well-rounded personalities are hardly synonymous with advanced intellect, you know this
Crap, go spend an hour with high-level tech engineers, for cryin out loud. I mean in the West.
Now, your EQ, well thatâs a whole nother cup of meat.
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I think itâs a combo of IQ, EQ and having your own opinions on âstuffâ.
Tibet did have an army, just not a very good one. Plus they had problems buying equipment at times.
All they had was Brad Pitt spending 7 years there. The information superhighway would bring news of genocide much more quickly. I gotta believe that the world would not allow China to attack a disarmed, peace-loving nation.
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Considering all that happens in the world today, isnât that a bit naive? Its about what people/groups/countries can get away with. As a function of their own power/leverage vs others, and what price theyâre willing to pay to achieve their aims.
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Itâs learned behaviours. Where Iâm from having a conversation is something that was celebrated ,even with strangers . Itâs a different focus in society here , as you saidâŚFood being the main topic of everything.
This is all exacerbated by the isolation from mdoern tech staring into phones all day (as he stares into his phone all day ).
Youâve obviously never encountered a drunk TibetanâŚ
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One personâs naivety is another personâs idealism.
No, but plenty of drunken Mongolians.
Eh havenât they just put into effect a ârelocationâ of Tibetans, so now it is more Chinese than Tibetans? How about the Uighur?
I think thes eguys would spit a peace loving nation a la Imperial Japanese: they would deem them cowards. They always would have an excuseâŚ
It is like the fable of the tiger and the deer. they were drinking by the river. The tiger says you are making my water dirty. thedeer replies he is drinking downriver, there is no way that can happen. the tiger then says you insulted me a few months ago. The deer replies I was born last month. The tiger says then it must have been your father⌠and ate the deer.
Thatâs why we donât give up one tank or plane.
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Point taken. That reminds of another saying that used to be quite common, something like âone manâs terrorist is another manâs freedom fighterâ. But it seems after Sept 11, 2001, its become a much less common statement. Nobody says it anymore.
Something nobodyâs mentioned, or if they have Iâve missed it, is how disproportionately valuable it is to, if at all possible, cultivate good relations with HR, if youâre in a shop big enough to have them.
HR and Bookkeeping departments in local companies tend historically to be extremely hostile towards (local) foreigner hires, often being deeply resentful of their relatively high salaries and the extra work they create. Added requirements to deal with government agencies on visa matters, tax issues, etc., plus the frequent need to provide some level of English communicability, can all end up with them nursing a pretty bitter attitude towards Johhny Whiteguy. Given the considerable amount of hammer they generally pull within the company, they have the potential to make things seriously unpleasant, in a multitude of ways.
My current company is the first one Iâve ever worked at where I was on good, even friendly terms with both HR and accounting, and the difference it makes to the quality of my work experience is extraordinary.
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Bring them cookies, bring them snacksâwhatever it takes to be on good terms.
Guy
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Offering to help them on the sleeve with any of their English documents, whether itâs in your job description or not, goes a lot farther in my experience
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