Discrimination or misunderstanding?

Hi, this is Teppei.



I just had the conference call tonight. It was held 11 o'clock in the evening almost midnight.



My conference call usually was happened around that time.



I am wondering sometimes that the organizer of the conference knows about the time zone.



When I had the conference calls with consultants from the states and European countries, if I arrange the time around their late at night, they complained a lot.

But when they organize it , it doesn't matter at all we are almost reaching mid-night.

Are they really considering our time zone?

Unfortunately we are still belonging far east.

It doesn't matter for them what time it holds. That is very sad to observe the facts that they don't care our time zone and just doing those accordingly.

Well, that is the fact.

Besides that sometimes it is very common for them to use their local expressions.

They think that American way of speaking is the standard even the rest of the world speak different English.

I hope that all causes orignate from misunderstanding. But their assumption is that people should understand their language and not opposite.

Believe it or not. Still there is the discrimination between western countries and asian countries.

That is obvious discrimination. If they respect time zone, they may ask "Is it OK it is almost midnight in your time?" But nobody mentioned it, I think they don't care about it.

Well, we can overcome discrimination on surface but it is very difficult to change their assumption.