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loafed-beans:

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friendly-neighborhood-ehrhardt:

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canadiangold:

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canadiangold:

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best thing i learned today:\u00a0\u201cThe Loud American\u201d role in Japanese businesses

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nobody asked but imma explain anyway

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no idea how it came up, but my programming prof was talking about his friend who works for Nintendo Japan who\u2019s secondary role is The Loud American, and my prof explained what that was and how it came about

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see, in Japan you do not talk back to your boss. you just don\u2019t, even if they have stupid ideas and want the company to act on them. Like Nissan did sometime back. But since the other employees couldn\u2019t do anything about this terrible idea that would ruin the company, they called in an American who had no reservations about telling the boss that their stupid idea was a stupid idea

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and that\u2019s just become a role in Japanese businesses, where they keep an American on staff who plays up the American stereotype and tells the boss what the Japanese employees can\u2019t or won\u2019t out of societal norms

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dream job.

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How much do they pay per hour for me to sit around and every so often storm into the bosses office and call his ideas stupid as fuck?

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