by Nathamon Madison | Mar 12, 2018 | Date In Asia
How You’ll Discover this “Content” vs. “Context” Cultural Difference Many misunderstandings have happened in Thai/Western relationships because the people involved just don’t understand this dimension. It is not too hard to readily recognize it though, once the...
by Nathamon Madison | Mar 12, 2018 | Date In Asia
Here’s How Your Western Value “Control” Differs from Thai Value: “Tolerance” When you’re in Bangkok – or anywhere else in Thailand for that matter – you’ll notice little shrines to the Buddha on virtually every street corner. You’ll see...
by Nathamon Madison | Mar 12, 2018 | Date In Asia
How Western and Thai Culture Communicate so Differently–“Content vs. Context” Meet Mark… Mark, an executive in his mid-40s, began dating again two years after a brutal divorce. He tried the club scene in his native Atlanta, but found the women there...
by Nathamon Madison | Mar 9, 2018 | Date In Asia
See How Different Cultures Deal with Uncertainty: Control or Tolerance Meet Kurt, a “Typical” German Engineer Born, raised, and educated in Germany, Kurt is cheerful, polite, efficient and precise. Growing up traveling on the enviable railway system in his native...
by Nathamon Madison | Mar 9, 2018 | Date In Asia
Here’s How You Should Understand About the “Achievement” vs. “Nurturance” With Your Thai Lady In Your Western, More “Masculine” Culture… In Her Thai, More “Feminine” Culture… In Western cultures, the purpose of life is to work In the Thai...