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Winning in Southeast Asia means paying attention to complex cultural diversity within the region as consumers’ everyday life choices and behaviour are caught in a web of cultural meanings they themselves have spun. Thank you, Geertz! (Geertz, Clifford; The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays; New York, Basic Books, 1973).
Here is an example of how it might play out.
Choices rooted in webs of cultural meanings
Imagine you are a middle-class Vietnamese parent with growing kids, aged six to...