Every now and again we do something quite fun for assessment. Anyone who knows me well knows I don't mind a bit of verbal sparring and yesterday I got my opportunity. International Business is quite a subjective subject and we got our chance to argue our point. We were grouped in pairs and were asked to take on another pair in a debate. Our topic was "That the giving or taking of bribes or "gifts" distorted international markets and created unfair competition." We felt that this was quite an absolute statement as this actually what bribes or gifts do and had to find a 'semantic' territory because there are numerous document instances where this has been demonstrated to be true. We were really on a 'hiding to nothing' as we say in Australia. As a result, we argued that culture defined what was an acceptable "gift" or bribe as well as many other elements of the playing field and as a result, it was culture, not just the subset of bribes that shaped international markets. I don't think we did too badly :)
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