SP -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- Todo esto está Muy Mal -- August 29, 2020

Todo esto está Muy Mal

Por Larry Romanoff – 24 de Agosto, 2020

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Este ensayo es otro intento de ayudar a la "manada desconcertada" de Edward Bernays a conectar algunos puntos. El contenido es sólo marginalmente acerca de la política, pero estas dos citas siguientes son necesarias para establecer el contexto.

Montagu Norman, Gobernador del Banco de Inglaterra, en un discurso ante la Asociación de Banqueros de los Estados Unidos en la ciudad de Nueva York en 1924:

"Dividiendo a los votantes con el sistema de partidos políticos, podemos hacer que gasten sus energías en luchar por cuestiones sin importancia. Así, mediante una acción discreta, podemos asegurarnos lo que ha sido tan bien planeado y tan exitosamente logrado."

Del fallido intento de Boris Berezovsky de transformar a Rusia en un falso estado bipartidista:

"... acaloradas batallas públicas serían provocadas y libradas sobre temas socialmente divisivos, mientras que ambas partes estarían controladas desde bastidores por el mismo pequeño grupo de elites de gobernantes y banqueros. Con los ciudadanos permanentemente divididos y la insatisfacción popular canalizada con seguridad hacia callejones sin salida y sin sentido, estos titiriteros podrían mantener una riqueza y un poder ilimitados para ellos mismos, con pocas amenazas para su reinado." (1)

 

EN -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- You Can Fool Some of the People . . . August 30, 2020

 You Can Fool Some of the People . . .

 

By LARRY ROMANOFF – August 30, 2020  

This article is merely a curiosity dealing with language and culture but may be of interest to a few readers, and perhaps of occasional assistance in assessing comments made by others. My observations were prompted by my notice of a few persons commenting here who pretend to be something (or someone) they are not, in particular one person masquerading as a Chinese. It isn't common, but perhaps interesting. Let's look at a few cultural differences and see where this takes us.

 

Canadians and Americans particularly, in spite of their "melting pots" of peoples and cultures, generally display little to no understanding of other cultures and tend to interpret differences through ideological lenses and their lack of a culture, usually resulting in misunderstanding or misinterpreting comments or points of view, often arriving at conclusions that are wrong.

 

In your face

 

As one example, a high-ranking American politician said recently that the Chinese need to rid themselves of what she termed their "shyness and lack of confidence". It was beyond the limits of her understanding to realise that what she was seeing was neither shyness nor a lack of confidence, but modesty, one of the more charming characteristics of typical Chinese and Asians generally. American women as a class are not modest, are typically neither "shy" nor lacking "confidence" and tend to have a bolder "in your face" attitude compared to Asian women.