I was perusing the archives of the always helpful China Law Blog and came across the following lead from the Escape From Cubicle Nation blog titled, “How Not To Be A Knucklehead in a Globalized World.”

See also this related post from the Going Global blog, “A Cautionary Tale: No Matter How Familiar, We Are But Guests in a Foreign Country.”

Some excellent points in these posts about the perils of familiarity and comfortableness leading one to mistakenly begin to treat the foreign venue as a cultural extension of the US.

Prof. Carr December 14, 2007 addendum: See also this post I made a few days ago, The Three Types of Westerners in China, which highlight several short, very relevant and good China Business Network podcasts on this important topic.

Prof. Carr December 30, 2007 addendum: Re: the Cautionary Tale blog post noted above, several days ago the WSJ reported that the subject of that post, Eric Volz, was freed from jail in Nicaragua and he proceeded to immediately leave the country before the government changed its mind. He is one lucky young man. One can only hope that he learned from this and makes better decisions about the company he keeps in the future.

Prof. Carr May 18, 2008 addendum: See also this related post I just made, Chinese Ethnocentrism. Just As Hard To Accept As Western Ethnocentrism.