The myth of globalisation | Peter Alfandary | TEDxAix - YTread
- ️Fri May 01 2020
Sometimes I describe myself as a culturally conflicting English. I am a first generation born in the United Kingdom. They educated me in the French smooth in London for 13 years. I spent a lot of my childhood in Italy and 30 years as an international lawyer and I have always been fascinated by cultural differences, but I think I was arriving in New York as a 21 -year -old student who took my first sample of the Oxymoron that I would like to share with you today On the global non -global Village Village in the form described brilliantly by Marshall McClellan when the Internet predicted in the 1960s, but more like a word that we use an expression that we use a lot, now my experience in New York was not transcendental, but I He left a great effect on me, I spent my first day walking the streets or the impressive word had not yet become fashionable and at the end of the day I decided Taken taxis in London, so I got into the taxi and in my very very English policy maybe apologizing the way I told the taxi driver Good afternoon, do you think you could possibly take me and read the direction in the role I looked around He had become fun at this stage, his brain was clearly working on overtime?
The answer was unforgettable Sunny Joe Wanna Go What Don't You Want To Way Well, of course, at this stage, I was confused because I did not want to go because I was expected for dinner, but I thought for many days and many hours about that meeting Rude Confused if it was me, it was him and made me realize for the first time how different we are all and how different we communicate that Sonny wants to go or do not want to go was followed by many other examples during my career as a young and not so young lawyer I remember as a very young lawyer who negotiated with the Japanese and returned to the office very proud that they accepted everything I said and my boss looked at me and said Peter, are you sure of himself?
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They kept saying that yes and he explained to me, of course, that it did mean that they had not heard me that they did not agree that I realized my Dutch, my German and some of my American clients, the frankness does not necessarily mean a rudeness A little like my taxi the driver in New York and I also learned, of course, that the English really speak in a code that nobody understands that he could cite many examples if we had time, but one of them always reminds me of the Italian that when it was said by an Englishman but.
The English was a bit disappointed by something that the Italian said that the Italian said why he even mentioned it. I explained that a little disappointed in English meant extremely angry and probably will never be forgiven. "It does not necessarily mean that an agreement is even leaving a room that I learned about time, now I am one of these people that if I have a conference call at eight and eight because I am what is called monochronic in which I will mark In which I will mark in which I will mark 8:26 in the event that the password does not work the first time that some cultures do not make some sofas, time is how I should say a guide that the world will not end if the meeting begins twenty minutes afternoon, relax, what is you getting so excited because I also learned about lunch and negotiations so that in some cultures a long lunch in the Middle East in France, for example, it can be an integral part of a negotiation and always remember a French who once said that when his colleagues in New York suggested that they have a work lunch with a sandwich, actually felt physically ill, I learned about the use of silence in Finland, I am still learning every day, you see that my belief is that the idea that there is a global village is a
myth
that there is not a single village.
There are many villages in our globe that we talk about global warming global economy Global Crisis Communication, but the culture of the village of the village life, the village culture still does not do any value value when I say that, but I do believe that we have to stop believing in the quasi
myth
ical powers of globalization and we have to begin to remember how easy English without a doubt in the World of Commerce as the Free Lingua of the world, the second is our implacable and total confidence of digital communication, both lead to what is called an intercultural dilemma the belief that because English is spoken so much and because because It is very easy to communicate that we really understand each other, but we sit in the British boards of British together to the Chinese Russian Americans after negotiating English, but we always understand each other, but we often do not interpret subjectively jumped to conclusions that we look at the world through Eyes and lenses designed to correct our vision and not the other people we stereotyp we also think and react very fast and the question we want to ask ourselves is that we even talk enough, we send to one hundred billion commercial emails every day that I feel in My own isolated culture.
Space in X in London in Paris in New York and I write my email and in a matter of seconds it reaches the cultural space of another person, a space different from mine, one where the context is different, but the email does not have a loopack, There is no visual or even the oral track that my words may have been misunderstood, my tone may have been misunderstood. Write that email in a vacuum without realizing the cultural variables, so culturally we are not globally, it is about the context, everything is the individual or cultural group to which he or she belongs to my context its context His context, we communicate or rather we have contact, but he gets in touch with communication, you know it is a bit like the quotes on the Internet, you can meet someone online, but at some point you must have dinner with them and me.
Also ask me a question that you have asked if we have forgotten that the phones were originally designed to have conversations and to have a dialogue if we trust data purely in its origin, the cultural clash was a term that we probably use to describe that feeling of disorientation That he felt an expatriate when they first went to another country that experienced it first hand and in situ, but now something different has happened, the cultural shock has become invisible, it has become virtual, it is hidden behind our technology and The learning experience that we, that we, we, we, that we, would have won from a conversation or face -to -face communication is to miss the psychologist Paul Bats that lives once said that what is true is not what I say, but what you understand that I cannot see you so well, but I bet if I ask you the following question how many women in the room think that men always understand how many hands go up, not many interesting and if I change the question, say how many Men in the room think that women sometimes do not understand us, is there a man of any man?
If you had up your hands, it is seen that it is programming in this world, not all are Macs or all PCs and even the same computer can have a different keyboard that we must now concentrate on creating a new software so that those of the That you are one of the new software you are Macs in this room and those of you who are PC in this room can communicate effectively and harmoniously and the key for that is cultural intelligence, the key is to understand different cultures and learning techniques To adapt to improve it. Remaking, it is not about losing our own cultural identity, cultural intelligence is about simply realizing that not everyone reason and we think in the same way that we culturally observed a variety of important things in a very different way, the hierarchy of power of power The hierarchy of power of risk uncertainty.
In addition, about the understanding of our own culture within those parameters, there is a lovely saying that the last thing that the fish notes is that the water that is swimming in cultural intelligence can be taught and I think it is one of the key instruments to help us Navigating the paradox of the 21st century My conviction is simple, we need to make cultural intelligence part of our educational system at all levels, it must become a base stone that we need to teach it in our homes that we need to teach it in our schools in Our universities in our business schools in our places. of worship in our community centers in each of our villages that our children need it.
I need it, you need it, our colleagues need it and there I also venture to an idea, maybe our politicians and our leaders also need a strong dose of cultural intelligence, yes, yes. A call to weapons if you like it to ours Back a little more intolerance and increase the tolerance it knows, but at least we make it part of our daily interactions, the French writer or 20 Sicic Savetti said something beautiful if you of Faire de Moi more size mi from mules and Tamaki she did My brother differs from me instead of damaging me and, therefore, the next time I send an email or the next time you enter a taxi or an uber in New York, remember that their people do not represent V- World and maybe, if we all do it every day.
That we can create a better rich and hope a safer world