We watched a movie called Outsourced which showed an American man going to India. We enjoyed watching the interaction between the two cultures. We've never been to India or America but there was lots of stuff we could relate to. I reckon it would be good to watch if you were preparing some people from Oz to go to Asia. As well as the particular cultural differences it shows, you also get to see the main characters culture shock journey. When he first gets there everything is strange and new and he doesn't know how to act, but then when he gets back to the US he misses India. We can tell because he puts lots of spoons of sugar in his tea. The first time he had tea in India he found it strange that they put so much sugar in.
On Sundays I have been watching a show called Somewhere in China. (On the National Geographic channel, we just got cable when our new neighbours moved in.) These 2 American guys who lived in China when they were little and are now photographers made a set of shows in different parts of China. I liked the Yunnan one. Yunnan is close to SE Asia so lots of similarities to here.
Some blogs by ex-pats living in Asia can be found here.
Hey K :) I've emailed myself the outsourced show link for Jan and I to watch. I'm amused at the title because I've heard many people here in Ireland say that if they get laid off soon (high chance of that at the moment because of the economic downturn) they'd consider moving to India to bring some more western expertise to the outsourced/IT industry there.
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