There's no denying that the Germans and the Chinese are well known for quite different characteristics in their products. (I won't go into details here, I'll assume you understand those differences). Well here's a humourous comparison of their cultures , which may go a long way to understanding the differences in their products.
A co-worker who takes credit for someone else's work or rattles off obnoxious jokes is engaging in one of the top 10 most offensive workplace no-no's , according to survey results released this week.
This sounds to me like the way an engineer would tackle language.
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a
person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as
possible" - Freeman Dyson