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[new] scary monsters (Avg. Score: none / Raters: 0) (#9)
by amy on Thu Feb 19th, 2004 at 09:17:47 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Yeah, I agree that the corporate and academic conferences tend to be scary - certainly from the structure, but also from the attendee bases. In both cases, they're all in a specific profession, so perhaps it's natural that they're thinking mostly about career advancement... CAA I think is the scariest one I've been to, because it's overtly about job-hunting and competition, but the normal theme-based conferences tend to be pretty scary too...

However, I think there's also something in US culture that facilitates all this - the fact that in American culture, people's images of themselves and one another are so heavily identified with their job - it's probably less common for people to engage in non-commercial activities. And when they do, they probably spend less time at them than elsewhere (the US workweek is longer, plus cultural pressures). So the idea of holding or attending a conference with anything other than business in mind seems pretty strange here...


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