Western Values or Asian Values.

Hi, this is Teppei again.

My business partner from Singapore is visiting Tokyo this week. We had several interesting meeting last week.

Over the dinner we discussed about how the western values effect our way of thinking and actions.

We have now new U.S government administation by Barack Obama but the still American govenment have the tendency to think in binominal position like "Yes" or "No".

During Bush administration he said to the world if the nation which support their invasion Iraq means allies and if not it means the enemy.

In reality there are many things we can't put the thing either black or white, we have grey.

Instead western values asian values allow us to have grey area, all things have the meaning and we can't put everything in two categories.

In business and daily lifes asian values and those ways of thinking would be suitable for us.

I can't judge which is better but if you are forced to answer "Yes" or "NO", there is other way to answer for those questions.