Culture Clash Paper As humans face various social situations they easily adapt as they tap into previous memories of other situations that are applicable. They don’t have to recall all the details of the past memories‚ but rather just rely on the important main points that directly apply. This generalized story is referred to as a story script. Oftentimes story scripts may be learned from past personal experiences or they may be derived from our cultural upbringing. Story scripts are very important
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Introduction Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people‚ distinguished by everything from language‚ religion‚ cuisine (food)‚ social habits‚ music and arts. In other words‚ it is defined as the “ the collective programming of the mind of one category of people which is different from other category of people where mind refers to the way of thinking‚ feeling and behaving”. This gives people a sense of who they are‚ their belongings and social behavior. Different anthropologists
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important to the culture (money‚ job‚ education‚ ancestry‚ etc.) CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS · Rules of Behavior are enforced ideas of right and wrong. They can be customs‚ traditions‚ rules‚ or written laws. RELIGION · Answers basic questions about the meaning of life. · Supports values that groups of people feel are important. · Religion is often a source of conflict between cultures. · Monotheism
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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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Cultural Shock * Cultural Context * High-Context Culture * Low-Context Culture * Individualism * Collectivism * Masculine * Feminine Why Study Culture? * Globalization * Rise in intercultural Shock * Avoid Culture ShockCultural Contexts * What is cultural Context? * The relative emphasis different cultures place on nonverbal communication * High-Context culture * Low-Context cultureCulture Values * What are culture values? * Four categories of cultural values:
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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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Chalitha Weerakkody - 1599 Organizational Culture Unilever Sri Lanka Organizational Behavior - Mr. Kishan Thomas MGT4250 What Is Organizational Culture? The common perception held by the members of the organization is called the organizational culture and it basically depicts a system of shared meaning. There are seven characteristics evolved around organizational culture which are‚ innovation and risk taking‚ attention to detail‚ outcome orientation‚ people orientation‚ team orientation
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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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