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PS: I'm only learning, not trying to rub anyone the wrong way. Don't take my observations as criticism rather as observations
I'm not talking about race, ethnicity, history. Instead, I'm talking about the day to day life of the average person.
I saw some people online saying that life in East Asia was all about work, "go-go mentality." While in Europe it seems that people had more of an enjoyment of life.
Besides the USA I've lived in both Asia and Europe. I do think that much of Asia is definitely all about work, and Europeans do seem to enjoy life for the most part any ways. I do however find it difficult to compare the USA to these regions. The USA is so different is so many ways, it would be very difficult to find a similarity.
Besides the USA I've lived in both Asia and Europe. I do think that much of Asia is definitely all about work, and Europeans do seem to enjoy life for the most part any ways. I do however find it difficult to compare the USA to these regions. The USA is so different is so many ways, it would be very difficult to find a similarity.
I disagree. There are goal-oriented or materialistic people in Asian and European countries just as there are in the United States. The upper-middle classes of many countries are pretty similar. It is more about a difference in degree rather than a difference in kind.
So, I would say there are a lot of points of similarity.
The US resembles East Asia in the work work part a lot.
A lot of Americans like to assume themselves as similar or akin to Europeans but after living in Europe and now in the US, the Us is hardly anything like Europe.
Some aspects of the US might resemble uptight overruled Germanic areas of Europe but only to a limit. Even in Germanic countries in Europe people want holidays, healthcare etc.
I do not think the US is similar to Europe nor to Asia overall, the US is clearly its own thing.
I’ve travelled to many cities in Europe and Asia, for both business and vacation.
The US, Asia and Europe are all quite different. Lifestyles, cultures, norms and attitudes
are all different.
Thanks for the answer could you expand a bit more. All I know is the US and East Asia are "live for work" culture while Europe is "work to live." It seems to me to that Europe seems to be more urban and "lively" like people getting too excited about their soccer team. To me it seems in the US most of the thing that are allowed in Europe would be shut down fast by the cops. In East Asia you have more Urban cities but it seems that most people are overworked.
Thanks for the answer could you expand a bit more. All I know is the US and East Asia are "live for work" culture while Europe is "work to live." It seems to me to that Europe seems to be more urban and "lively" like people getting too excited about their soccer team. To me it seems in the US most of the thing that are allowed in Europe would be shut down fast by the cops. In East Asia you have more Urban cities but it seems that most people are overworked.
Americans are similar to EAST Asians (Not south east Asians though), in the sense Americans care too much about money.
Americans work and work and work and work and work and live their lives around the concept of being alumnis of X university and having worked doing Y job.
East Asians are like that.... I find that aspect in societies unbearable!
Europeans could not care less about being a graduate of X university or doing Y job. In Europe wealth has existed for far longer than East Asia (East Asia is new money) two generations ago most East Asians were miserably poor. Western Europeans have had money for centuries now.
I find the way Europeans interact and the emphasis on holiday, family, social life, etc. much more similar to Latin Americans and how they see the world.
Americans are also pretty new money like East Asians.
Europeans could not care less about being a graduate of X university or doing Y job. In Europe wealth has existed for far longer than East Asia (East Asia is new money) two generations ago most East Asians were miserably poor. Western Europeans have had money for centuries now.
Based on my experiences with my German brother and sister-in-law, who both are university graduates and have jobs (actually, brother-in-law is between jobs and quite worried about it), and their two children, who are now college-aged and planning their careers, this isn't true at all. Those things are very, very important and objects of white-hot focus for them, at least.
Anyway, how does people in a region "having had money" centuries ago have any connection with the need for people in that region to get an education and earn money today?
Based on my experiences with my German brother and sister-in-law, who both are university graduates and have jobs (actually, brother-in-law is between jobs and quite worried about it), and their two children, who are now college-aged and planning their careers, this isn't true at all. Those things are very, very important and objects of white-hot focus for them, at least.
Anyway, how does people in a region "having had money" centuries ago have any connection with the need for people in that region to get an education and earn money today?
Very little of what our Colombian freind irene says makes any sense.
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