For someone with so little linguistic ability – I have references – I am a bit of a language nerd. Every now and then I come across words of different languages that I understand completely.

It’s nice to be able to throw out a word that has a built in concept, like guanxi.

Guanxi in modern practice seems a little bit nosey, but in the definition itself resides the balances. ‘Mutual trust’. ‘balancing of debts by returning of favors’, ‘relationship’s benefits are shared by all’.

Our social networks should all be closer to the theoretical guanxi, in my opinion.