![]() ![]() To be clear, I was not unnerved or upset. When I saw the peculiar layout of this theater, it immediately struck me as being somehow Chinese in nature. It would be hard to miss! The luxurious glass encased steps to the second floor lounge are the most prominent design feature of the whole place.ĪMC is Chinese owned, and there is a lot of Chinese culture in Silicon Valley, mostly due to many Chinese immigrants and nationals in the area as well as a general push toward cosmopolitan globalization. ![]() I noticed the design immediately when the theater opened to the public recently. This Showplace ICON theater has an oddly conspicuous stratification between the plebeian bottom floor tickets and the exclusive top floor tickets that grant access to a bar and lounge. ![]() (I'm actually not even sure how to use guanxi in a sentence, so any or all of this may be a gross misunderstanding of guanxi) ![]() One thing that happens is businesses will often offer exclusive lounges and clubs to their members in order to give them an opportunity to up their guanxi. This is not unique to China - society in general places a lot of importance on networking - but China's sometimes loose rule of law apparently means that guanxi has a big effect. If you have good guanxi you are well connected, bad guanxi you are not. It also adds fuel to my crazy conspiracy theory about the Showplace (AMC) movie theater in Westfield Valley Fair.įirst, let's talk about guanxi, In Chinese culture there is something called guanxi which is basically the concept of having important working relationships and trust with people. I just learned about the concept of guanxi (关系) in Chinese culture and knowledge of it plus the whole concept of saving/giving face in Asian cultures is making a lot of behaviors in Asian culture make a bit more sense. ![]()
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