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DECIPERING THE CHINESE PUZZLE AND THE INDIAN MYSTIQUE:
Understanding Culture’s Role in the Waking of the Dragon and the Tiger.
OK, here’s one for all you global gurus out there: see if you can answer the following cross-cultural quiz (hint: it’s easy, if you follow the clues):
On the one hand, you have an Asian country (clue: think “dragon”) with:
a. a billion plus people, mainly under-educated, who do not speak English
b. an authoritarian government and political system
c. an ideologically communist economic system
d. a social system that strongly rejects outside influences
On the other hand, you have an Asian country (clue: think “tiger”) with:
a. almost one billion people, many of whom have been educated by western standards and who speak English
b. a democratic government and political system (in fact, the world’s largest!)
c. an economy based on capitalism
d. a social system open to Western influences
Here’s the 64,000 dollar question: Based on these factors, back in the aughts at the turn of the millennium, which country would you have predicted to have been the first one to…
