[1000mp] Letter Writers

[Pete Smith]

At 02:28 PM 5/14/02 -0700, John R. Winward wrote:
 >You are forgetting differences in culture, if you write directly to Mr.
 >Hasegawa, you are doing what's known as an "End Run" around Mr. Maruya.
 >This is a No - No or to put it another way, a black mark against Mr.
 >Maruya. To write to the president may be the American way, but it'd not
 >the way it's done with our Asian partners.

A slight demurrer here. Writing Mr. Hasegawa is OK. The worst of all
possible worlds, in my view, is to write Mr. Hasegawa and copy Mr.
Maruya. The issue here is face, not blame, and by copying Mr. Maruya you
are ensuring that he will lose face.  I've checked this with a Japanese 
specialist because China was my professional field, and I wanted to be sure 
the principle transferred.  It does.

73, Pete Smith N4ZR