Re: Article: "EXCLUSIVE: Help Wanted -- 'Arrogant Americans' NeedNotApply" AND THIS IS FOR A TECHWRITER

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

In this example, "Stan" could be considered arrogant for attempting to do 
business in another country without making an effort to understand how business 
is conducted there (he is also dangerously and expensively incompetent for 
calling home to announce that he has an order without a signed PO in his hand). 
However, I suspect that the type of arrogance the hiring company is really 
concerned about is a tendency Americans often have to act as if they're doing 
ignorant and backward foreigners a favor just by being willing to do business 
with them, and to believe that the "American way" of doing things is inherently 
superior to that of any other country and that everybody else needs to learn 
from us.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>
Interesting. On what grounds are we saying that Stan is arrogant? 

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