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What Asians really think of America: our friends in the Far East have some surprising views--especially about career women and the U.S. dollar.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 31-MAY-04 		Format: Online - approximately 877 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: What Asians really think of America: our friends in the Far East have some surprising views--especially about career women and the U.S. dollar.(Opinion)(Column)

Article Excerpt
Asia--home to something like 60 percent of Earth's people--is a vast multitude of ethnicities, nationalities, religions and cultures. And so Asians do not think alike any more than they look alike.

Even so, since they have some objective distance on the United States and at the same time an intense interest in what happens here, they tend to form overall impressions about us that are widely shared. You may be surprised to learn what they are. Based on my years of traveling to Asia and writing this column, here are a few of them:

1. Asians do not hate Americans. Many wish us the best. But they do resent our big-mouthed, big-footed ways, our arrogance and our tendency to make decisions (like Iraq) without consulting them--and then pressuring them to...

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