Jan's Blog 2025

 Hello G'Day welcome to this instructional post on how to conduct business in Japan.  Well more like how to behave in professional settings. OK, so as you might imagine the business culture is waaaay different than what we are used to. Meaning that people behave and treat company setting with a certain degree of reverence and personal importance.  Back in the days, Japanese were connected by family ties forming clans. The home ( ie)  was everything to them. They would not do things that could put their name in a bad light and would take great pride in their honor.  The times are changing, so there is no shogun nor samurai that you should bend you knee to, naturally corporations took their place. The company is your home, and people within it are your family now.  We Europeans draw a definite and clearly visible line between work and private life. It is not uncommon to put on masks during the work hours, just to rip it off as soon as we get home. Sort of a d...

Good morning everyone! It's JohnnyBloggyBoy and today we will explore what it means to be masculine and what it means to be feminine.  Please do not get me wrong, you can already erase the image of me as Andrew Tate preaching to poor teenagers how to be super macho masculine man and how a decent feminine women should behave. (picture that might'ev appeared in you mind for reference)     No, we'll be talking about yet another component of Hofstede's model mainly the Masculinity Index, the index that describes the distance and the roles of a man and a women in the society and relationships. Quoting the legend himself, Hofstede describes it as following:   "In a masculine society, men are supposed to be tough. Men are supposed to be from Mars, women from Venus. Winning is important for both genders. Quantity is important and big is beautiful. In a feminine society, the genders are emotionally closer. Competing is not so openly endorsed, and there is sympathy for t...