A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 10/03/13 Intercultural Communications Midterm Exam Introduction The film A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a great example of how real life intercultural interactions exist. The main characters do a great job in playing their role. In this essay exam I am going to give a brief synopsis of the film and then describe 15 key terms from our reading and how they apply to the film. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a story
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Asian Social Science May‚ 2008 Formation of Cultural Competitive Force When Doing Business in China Maohua Sun School of Mathematics and Computer Science‚ Nanjing Normal University Nanjing 210097‚ China Tel: 86-25-8528-2055 E-mail: dongxiaobo@163.com Abstract With the globalization of world business‚ China has become an appealing market for foreign investors. The problem of cross-cultural management arises as the cooperation between China and its culturally different Western partners
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Unit 4 General Psychological Issues in Cultural Perspective Subunit 1 Basic Psychological Processes and Culture Article 3 1-1-2004 Decision Making in Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures C. Dominik Guess Northern Illinois University‚ dguess@unf.edu Recommended Citation Guess‚ C. (2004). Decision Making in Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture‚ 4(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.9707/2307-0919.1032 This Online Readings in Psychology
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Group presentations about Hofstede’s cultural dimension 1. A brief presentation of Geert Hofstede and his background Geert Hofstede was born 2 October 1928 in Haarlem. He is a Dutch social psychologist that did a pioneering study of cultures across modern nations. Geert has made these models that classified culture along four different dimensions – Power Distance Index‚ Individualism versus Collectivism‚ Masculinity versus Femininity‚ Uncertainty Avoidance Index‚ Long Term Orientation versus Short
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Hofstede’s cultural Dimensions and tourist behaviors A review and conceptual Framework Las dimensiones culturales y la conducta turística según Hofstede: análisis y marco conceptual Lalita A. Manrai1 Ajay K. Manrai Received: January 14‚ 2011 Accepted: September 18‚ 2011 Abstract This paper develops a conceptual framework for analyzing tourist behaviors and identifies three categories of behaviors based on the applications of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and the processes underlying these
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Cultural approach in corporate cultures: main problems There are some problems that appear when American expantriates come to Japan or Japanese firms enter American market - most of them nothing else but cultural approaches that make differences in how these two nations understand see corporate culture and business in general: Employment system. Comparing to the U.S. labor market‚ the Japanese market is very different because of the lifetime employment system in Japan. As a result‚ Americans and
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Similarities And Differences In Cultural Management Among Vietnam‚ Singapore & Australia I. Introduction We know that we are living in a global world. People of difference cultures find themselves working together and communicating more and more. What is culture? Culture is the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from others according to. Societal cultures reside in values‚ in the sense of a broad tendencies to prefer certain
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incomprehensible and puzzling at the best‚ and ridiculous and misleading at the worst. As a very important part of Chinese culture‚ Chinese cuisine is imbued with cultural implications which‚ when ill-rendered‚ can baffle foreign diners. Thus menu translation is by no means a simple and easy thing‚ but is‚ and should be‚ a way of cross-cultural communication. Based on the study and analysis of domestication and foreignization from the perspective of culture‚ the writer draws a conclusion that foreignization
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Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions difference between China and Netherlands According to the Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions‚ we can get the difference from this table. The red figure is Chinese and blue one is Netherlands. First is PDI‚ PDI means Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally. China got 80 and it means in China‚ everyone can accept the different level
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Cross-cultural business Australia Business Etiquette & Culture Australia Introduction Australia has a population of almost 20 million people in a country not much smaller than the contiguous 48 United States. However‚ the great majority of the population is located in a few major urban centers. The large majority of the population (93%) has a European heritage‚ primarily English. The predominant language of the country is English with Christianity the largest religion (75%). The Aborigines
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