NEWSWEEK, January 11, 2010: Page 22: Gallup's pollsters surveyed Americans' attitudes toward interracial relationships in 2005, the majority were accepting i.e. 95% of Americans under 30 approved, compared to roughly 45% of those over 64. The majority of younger people claim to have dated a person of a different race or ethnic backgrounds. Comment: We are all homosapiens and variety is the spice of life.Nobody would impugn.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW,January and February 2010 issue:
Page 24 Apropos of CHINA: Myth: Collectivism in the public sector.
Reality: Individualism under the market economy.
Myth: Long term deliberation re RMB value to be fluctuating.
Reality:Real-time reaction is based on the Law of Supply and Demand for Foreign Exchange Market.
Myth: Risk aversion re efficiency and efficacy
Reality: Risk tolerance to respect for seniority
Page 26: Animatronic at the Colonel Sanders Museum: Colonel F.Shieh declares such recipe is originated from China with condiments as cultural evidence.
Page 36: Managers must remember that they are the custodians of society's most powerful institutions. They must therefore hold themselves to a higher standard.
To Wit: "Shang liang bu zheng,xia liang wan" in Pin Yin system of phonetic equivalents of 7 Chinese characters.(words)
Page 56: "Transforming a nation is even harder but the dramatic reforms in China show that it can be done." Written by Paul Romer of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
Page 86: How to bounce back from adversity?: RESILIENCE: Such fortitude may be found in Confucianism.Cf. www.loc.gov i.e. Library of Congress online catalog re Political Philosophy of Mencius: et passim.
Page 102: US urgently needs dynamism: Evidence may be discovered in China's reforms.
Page 111,112: Best performing CEOs in the world: Wang Jianzhou(China mobile for telecom)
Fu Chengyu(CNOOC for energy)
Wang Tianpi (Sinapec)
President Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) was the first president to have a telephone on his desk in the White House. The president and his wife were both fluent in Chinese.
President Obama (2009 -?) is the president with computer online but he and his wife are not fluent in Chinese yet. Hopefully he would lead the nation to economic recovery during this tenure of office.
"A Glimpse of the Chinese Language" may be useful to all those who are interested in China for understanding in the 21st century and beyond... www.rand.org for reference.
Francis Shieh aka Xie Shihao, a blogger to share information with readers of Sino-American Economics covering peace and development.
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 1.48 p.m.
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