Giving Face Without Losing Yourself 🇨🇳 | The Real Ethical Test in China
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Giving Face Without Losing Yourself 🇨🇳 | The Real Ethical Test in China
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About this listen
In China, Giving Face doesn’t mean abandoning your values.
It means choosing when and how to express them.
This video tackles one of the hardest moments foreigners face in China—when Western instincts about honesty, ethics, and “doing the right thing” collide with Chinese expectations around harmony, Face, and relationship preservation.
If you’ve ever felt:
- Ethically uncomfortable staying silent
- Frustrated by vague answers
- Torn between honesty and harmony
You’re not alone—and you’re not misunderstanding China by accident.
In this episode, I explain:
- Why trust does not guarantee truth in China
- Why Giving Face is not deception, but social risk management
- How moral certainty can quietly destroy guānxì
- How to respond ethically without triggering defensiveness or retreat
This is not about learning what to say in China.
It’s about learning when not to speak, how to read what’s really happening, and how integrity works inside a different psychological system.
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