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Subject:Re: VW, honour, and culture
From:Dave Mcneely
Date:Wed, 23 Sep 2015 20:46:27 -0500

In China they kill them, if they don't kill themselves.  But nobody is asking for that.  Prison time, yes.

---- James <jk_eaton@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Winterkorn's resignation illustrates one of those cultural divides that separates Canada and the US from Europe and Asia.
>
> Winterkorn is hardly the first German CEO or higher-up to resign when something like this happens - it's a matter of honour, and taking responsibility.  You see the same behaviour in Japanese CEOs, and elsewhere in Europe and Asia.
>
> Whereas North American CEOs hardly ever resign over such things....
>
> James
> Ottawa, ON
>
> > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:58:13 -0500
> > From: jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM
> > Subject: VW
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >
> > VW Germanyhas really stepped into it with this software debacle.  Bad
> > enough to get the CEO to resign.
> >
> > That's quite something.
> >
> > John
>

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David McNeely