Cultural Misunderstandings Darcy Lingg PSYC3540 – Culture‚ Ethnicity & Diversity Capella University March 2014 My example of a cultural misunderstanding is between a doctor and a Chinese patient. Are you drinking plenty of fluids? < Patient thoughts: I wonder why he is asking me that‚ what it is with these people and water > I don’t like the water here. It’s too cold. I don’t know what’s wrong with people here that they drink that. Really??? And what happens when you drink the
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day in and day out. This paper will assess how Linda Myers‚ from the article‚ “The would-be pioneer‚” (Green‚ S.‚ 2011) was affected by the huge culture shock of working for a global conglomerate from Seoul‚ South Korea. We will discuss what went wrong with Ms. Myers approach to business‚ Hofstede’s five dimensions of culture as it pertains to the article‚ and make some recommendations based on the author’s thoughts. Let’s first start by discussing how culture and environment affect management in
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Cultural relativism holds that there is no universal morality that is common among all cultures. Specifically‚ in an article on cultural relativism James Rachels states the following characteristics of cultural relativism: 1) Different societies have different moral codes; 2) There is no objective standard that can be used to judge one societal code better than another; 3) The moral code of our own society has no special status; it is merely one among many; 4) There is no "universal truth"
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Task 4 Student #000197021 Task 309.2 Cultural Sensitivity Cultural sensitivity is vital to remember when any firm does any business in a foreign market. Certain strategies and procedures used in the United States may not translate the same way in other countries or have the same impact. Other areas in the world operate their businesses with different priorities and in different cultures so it is crucial to consider how these differences may affect how business is done. Ethical situations will
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Cultural Difference Latasha Newton August 27‚ 2012 Psych 535 Professor Gaston Weiser Sexual development is a natural part of life. Sex is a biological form of the male and female make up. Sexual development is considered a universally biological aspect of life. Although‚ sexual development is the foundation of human existence everyone that is biologically labeled as a male or female do not identify themselves as such. Also social encounters that an individual experience develops gender identity
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Many Cultural Worlds: Subcultures and Countercultures A subculture can be defined as a set of cultural characteristics shared among a group within a society that (1) are distinct in some ways from the larger culture within which the group exists‚ but (2) also have some features in common with the larger culture. Some case studies can include: Hip-Hop‚ Computer Geeks‚ Dead Heads‚ Bikers‚ Ravers‚ Skaters‚ and Goths Subcultures are groups whose values and related behaviors are so distinct that they
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In community interventions‚ ethical behavior relates to the treatment of humans‚ knowledge‚ and wealth and also the general activities of people when they are not dealing directly with the community. When it comes to social issues‚ ethical issues are most often the center of the controversy. Ethical controversies are created when groups quarrel that certain topics are moral or immoral. In the Model of American Ethnic Relations: A Historical Perspective‚ an essay by George M. Fredrickson‚ he explains
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societies. Each society has traits and customs that make it different from any other. Every society has their own way of looking at and dealing with certain situations. "Different societies have different moral codes" (Rachels 618). This claim is known as Cultural Relativism. "Cultural Relativism‚ as it has been called‚ challenges our ordinary belief in the objectivity and universality of moral truth. There is no such thing as universal truth in ethics: there there are only the various cultural codes
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| Cultural Diversity within the Workplace | | Cultural Diversity within the Workplace Cultural diversity‚ what is cultural diversity‚ and how does it affect the work place? I believe that there are people out there that still may not have a true understanding as to the exact meaning of cultural diversity‚ or they assume that it is something that only pertains to people who are of a different back ground as the next person. Cultural diversity encases more than just people who come from different
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Mao Ze Dong started the Great Cultural Revolution in 1966‚ in what appeared to be a massive cleansing policy to ensure the final victory of Mao and his supporters over the rest of the Chinese Communist party. Mao Zedong officially launched the Cultural Revolution at Eleventh Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee. Over the next decade‚ literally millions of people were destroyed‚ imprisoned and blamed for previously hidden ’bourgeois tendencies’ while tens of thousands were executed. Mao Zedong
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