Through the centuries, every people — big or small — has been working out its own approaches to various sides of life that, summed up, predestine its mentality and national character.
Such differences can be clearly seen in the economic field. In the age of globalization, some of them gain in importance and may strongly influence national destinies.
One of these variable traits is people's attitude to economic partners from the outside, to alien business practices, to foreign investment capital, and — as a general notion — to an alien presence in the national economy.
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