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Gift Giving Etiquette in the Confucian-Asia cluster: the luxury fruit culture

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. - Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur - *** In a previous article we’ve discussed about the importance of guanxi in Chinese business: as explained by the author (Calipe Chong), guanxi - that literally translates as “relationships” - is to be intended as the “mechanism that provides…

Category : Articles 22-07-2020 by Maria Antonietta Marino

A seat at the African-American table: how social eating connects a community

Article written by Tiffani Rozier: The dining table is a sacred space within the African American community. As with all cultures, the African American family table is a space to share, grieve, and celebrate, but upon closer inspection, you discover a more important story to tell. The practice of gathering to break…

Category : Articles 10-11-2019 by Tiffani Rozier

Food, values and entrepreneurship in diaspora communities

How a people eats is one of the most powerful ways they have to express, and preserve, their cultural identity...To make food choices more scientific is to empty them of their ethnic content and history (Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) What sort of information can we gather…

Category : Articles 06-11-2019 by Maria Antonietta Marino

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