mentality and enviroment

[Antra]

Just curiousity. For the people who have left their contry of origin to work in some other place, which is so much different from their own.

I'm a person more with the scandinavian or nordic mentality, did some studies in NYC, lived a bit in Netherlands and now stuck in some tropical island.

For the moment I have to adapt all my design works, ideas to the place with completely different lifestyle, values, and different perception of good, beautiful.. etc.

Sometimes I think that it's an advanted for me because I can bring new things here and here it's quite behind the other countries in terms of development and cultural growth.
But on the other hand, I feel like it's too hard to educated the people and some of the work I've done I feel like I haven't done the best I could, because for them it's good enough. Your nice ideas get killed by costs (they have crazy local tax on import (even though it's part of France, I pay tax on everything I import even from mainland France)), the attitude of workers (crazy price, short working hours) and the client itself, who don't want to invest to get something better...
Sometimes it can be depressive...

[SWANK-E]

Originally Posted by Antra

I'm a person more with the scandinavian or nordic mentality, did some studies in NYC, lived a bit in Netherlands and now stuck in some tropical island.

I thought Latvia is more Baltic than Nordic...

[Antra]

People tend to put as in one bag with Russians who are Slavic.
Rare are those who know that we are Balts. And 2 of Baltic countries are more close to Nordic mentality (historicly Estonians were close neighbours with Finns, because of the language), Latvians with Sweeds, Lithuanians with Poles (also Slavic).
And its true that in the design we are more Scandinavian style.