have been asked by my foreigner friends over and over again. It comes to them as a surprise when I reply. ‘It is the normal way people talk in India’. Today‚ English is widely acknowledged as being the ‘lingua franca’ of the modern world. This phrase refers to the adoption of English as the ‘bridging’ language among communities to allow communication between people who do not speak the same language or dialect- making it the leader in education‚ research‚ tourism and the media. However‚ in recent
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about his father being ill in India. He wanted to go and see his father to see how he was progressing with medical treatment. He was also worried that his father is old at the age of 85 and that he might die. He was also worried whether they had enough money in India to look after his father well. So all the staff supported him by counselling and asking him questions about his father and his family in India. We asked him whether he had enough money to send to India for his father’s treatment
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As of now‚ the EU is the UKs main trading partner‚ with 52% of the total trade in goods and service. This trade with the EU is worth more than 400 billion pounds a year. If Britain were to withdraw completely from the EU then we would see trade barriers erected with tariffs on
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the commercial activities between East and West has become one of the major lifeline almost dominated the world economy. Its representation can be attributed to the Japanese and U.S. economic and trade. As is well known‚ the United States is the superpower of the world‚ not only in military but also in economic. Japan is a small country‚ while considering the contribution to the world economic Japan still is a big country. So trade exchanges and business negotiations between these two countries is a
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Though he had inherited many traditions he had not agreed in to with any one of them. These cultural derivations varied from ancient texts to his immediate predecessors. Gandhi did never claim to be an original thinker. But when we look into all his sayings the conceptual framework is similar in many ways to a philosopher. Regarding the radical
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The article ADIVASIS‚ NAXALITES AND INDIAN DEMOCRACY by Ramachandra Guha focuses on the condition of adivasis who are caught between the government and naxalites. Adivasis ‚which is a term used for the tribes of central and eastern India who share certain attributes in terms of cultural‚ social‚ economic and political entities that makes them distinct from north-eastern tribes and other Indian and thus treating them as a single segment. According to the author there are roughly 70 million tribals
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Cultural Differences In Geometrical Perceptions The study chosen is called Cultural Differences in the Perception of Geometric Illusions. The research specifically focused on the psychological processes of depth perception and visual perspective. The first example is the Muller-Lyer illusion which is an optical illusion consisting of stylized arrows in which viewers tend to perceive one as longer than the other. The second example used is the Sanders Parallelogram in which a diagonal line bisecting
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wedding customs of Vietnam and England 1. Introduce the situation. 2. Engagement. 3. Wedding ceremony. 4. Early wedding traditions in the past. Part 2: Differences in wedding customs of Vietnam and England . 1. Preparation for wedding ceremony. 1.1. In Vietnam 1.2. In England 2. After the wedding ceremony. 2.1. In Vietnam 2.2. In England 3. Other differences. 3.1. The customs of inviting guests 3.2. Organization of wedding 3.3. The process of a wedding ceremony 3.4. Other things 3.4.1. Wedding attire 3
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Why is an understanding of cultural differences important to the business managers at BreadTalk? To assist the managers at BreadTalk to decide if they should expand to Australia‚ briefly describe the Australian culture. A wide range of definitions have been used for the term “culture.” Culture has been defined as the human-made part of the environment (Herkovits‚ 1955)‚ including both objective and subjective elements (Triandis‚ 1972); as a set of reinforcements (Skinner‚ 1981); as the collective
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Cross-cultural differences impact all interactions. Today we are going to look at how they impact the organization within a business. Many readers may not quite be here yet. But I thought this would be interesting to look at. Are There Differences? What makes an international business different? Does an international business function differently from one that is not international? Are there international growing pains? Apart from the legalities of operating an international company‚ it
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