[lbo-talk] Re:What should prospective Canadian Managers know...

[Will Thurber]

Your insights have been great, more eloquent, but certainly similar to my 
own thoughts.  But...
There is a lingering anti-Americanism lurking not far beneath the surface 
of most Canadians.  While using this material might be cathartic to me, it 
will only feed into a pre-existing semi-hostile attitude structure making 
it more difficult for them to understand the Yanks and thus work 
co-operatively with American colleagues, just the opposite of my goal.

If I were describing American world views to an alien from another planet, 
your suggestions would be perfect, but given that Canadians have an almost 
smug sense of moral superiority - I fear that this would only be setting 
them up for an ass-kicking when they are older.  Now I can solve this 
problem myself, to tell the Canadian Students to get over 
themselves.  However, now I fear that I might be encouraging them to sell 
out their moral standards in the pursuit of material wealth, i.e. They can 
be poor and feel morally superior or they can be rich and try to 
accommodate their American peers.  Now  I acknowledge that I might be 
over-analyzing this, and fretting about the ethics of sycophancy in a 
business school might be a waste of my limited cognitive powers, but I 
can't help myself.