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Subject:Re: VW, honour, and culture
From:BenT
Date:Wed, 23 Sep 2015 19:59:39 -0700

Come on... Hitler, Stalin, and Chinese business?! Please get back on track. It's bad enough this VW debacle is not Vanagon related. This other stuff way out in orbit.:-(

BenT
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> On Sep 23, 2015, at 6:46 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> --
> David McNeely