Abstract The factors of culture shock are various. Different values‚ beliefs and customs can create information overload. Besides‚ language barrier reduces the understanding of the new culture and makes people feel isolated. In addition‚ the difference in food is one of the main factors of culture shock. Original eating habit is not easy to change‚ so it becomes more difficult to fit in. Moreover‚ people from different social structures cause culture shock. Furthermore‚ the individual differences
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| | Mounting western culture degrading India on the whole. Have you ever seen the pictures of Jatindranath Mukerjee or Chandrasekhar Azad or Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose? Apart from being leading revolutionaries of the Indian freedom struggle‚ these three great personalities had something more in common. Almost in each picture you will find each of them clad in perfect Indian attire or dhoti-kurta. Do you find the same dress among Indians still? Unfortunately‚ it is becoming almost extinct more
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The Media Imperialism debate started in the early 1970s when developing countries began to criticise the control developed countries held over the media. The site for this conflict was UNESCO where the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) movement developed. Supported by the MacBride report‚ "Many Voices‚ One World"‚ countries such as India‚ Indonesia‚ and Egypt argued that the large media companies should have limited access to developing countries. This argument was one of the
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According to Holden (2002)‚ participative competency is an ability to be involved in and be a part of interaction – even in a nonnative language. Along the same line‚ Fantini (2000) includes the ability to communicate effectively and appropriately without changing the significance of the message as a cross-cultural competency. Koehn and Rosenau‘s (2002) transnational listening requires that native speakers understand non-native speakers‚ even when they do not use the language
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By Frederik Balfour Guanxi. It’s the first word any businessperson learns upon arriving in China. Loosely translated‚ guanxi means "connections" and‚ as any China veteran will tell you‚ it is the key to everything: securing a business license‚ landing a distribution deal‚ even finding that coveted colonial villa in Shanghai. Fortunes have been made and lost based on whether the seeker has good or bad guanxi‚ and in most cases a positive outcome has meant knowing the right government official‚ a relationship
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of people always use five fundamental taste elements when they’re cooking. For Vietnamese people‚ salt is used as the connection between the worlds of the living and the dead. Cooking and eating play an extremely important role in Vietnamese culture. The word ăn (eat) is included in a great number of proverbs and has a large range of semantic extensions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_cuisine#Cultural_importance Vietnamese cuisine is reflective of the Vietnamese lifestyle from the
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In 1998‚ management consultants Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner published their “Seven Dimensions of Culture” model to help explain national cultural differences in organisations and to show how managing these differences in a heterogeneous business environment is a major challenge for international managers. Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner gathered data over ten years using a method that relied on giving respondents dilemmas or contrasting tendencies. Each dilemma consisted of two alternatives
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teaching‚ we are not only taught the Mother Tongue but also we are taught the culture of that nation. Cultural and language are closely related‚ inseparable. Language is a mean of culture transportation and culture contained in language. It has been said and written that language is the crystallization of national culture‚ through language and texts‚ culture values are handed down. In the future‚ thanks to language‚ culture will have chances to have development. The transformation and development of
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the Indian culture‚ he first falls victim to a taxi driver’s trickery‚ has to literally “hop” on a train and although he is offered a seat on the “can-packed” train carriage by a boy‚ but in return he has to offer up his lap for the boy to sit on. On first sight‚ Todd experienced a culture shock from the manifest culture of India (Sathe‚ 1985) that attacked his own “core” and starts to form judgments about this seemingly dirty and primitive country. The initial contact with a new culture gives rise
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DBF 107 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING I PUAN HASLINA BT HASSAN GROUP ASSIGNMENT NAME MATRIC NO 1. Faris Aina Nabila Ismail 142013108 2. Nurul Aisha Niaz Ali Abdullah 142012913 3. Nur Adriana Amran 142013284 4. Nur Azlina Isam 142012902 5. Hemalatha A/P Vasu 142012834 CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 Introduction CHAPTER 2 Company Background CHAPTER 3 Annual Report CHAPTER 4 Assumptions CHAPTER 5 Conclusion
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