East is East

East is East and west is west.

This position paper addresses the long-standing criticism that the International Baccalaureate (IB) is too closely associated with Western values and, despite its title, does not enable students to see the world from a truly international perspective. Considering evidence from different authorities, it analyses the IB learner profile and asks how appropriate it is for the cultures of East Asia....

Stability of International Production Networks: Is East Asia Special?

Trade relationships built through production chains appear to be lasting due to relation-specific nature of the transactions, compared with the usual transactions of goods sold on the open market. This paper aims to verify such stability of international production networks at the global level, with special emphasis on intra-East Asian trade. A series of survival analyses provide an evidence su...

Neurology and psychiatry: “Oh, East is East and West is West …”

Neurology and psychiatry: " Oh, East is East and West is West … " " …and never the twain shall meet ". However far removed, the two specialties do have a common root. The main difference has been that disorders with behavioral disturbances came to be regarded as mainly " functional " without a structural basis, while neurology concerned itself with symptoms having an origin in organic changes. ...

Politeness: Is there an East-West Divide?

(Lancaster University, UK) Abstract: The theory of politeness of Brown and Levinson (1978, 1987) has remained the most seminal and influential starting point for cross-cultural and cross-linguistic contrastive pragmatics. Yet is has also provoked countervailing arguments from Ide (1989, 1993), Matsumoto (1989), Gu (1990), Mao (1994) and others, pointing out a Western bias in Brown and Levinson’...

"middle East Granuloma": Is It Granuloma Venereum?