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    Uncertainty Avoidance He has defined the cultural characteristic of Uncertainty Avoidance as: . . . the extent to which people within a culture are made nervous by situations which they perceive as unstructured‚ unclear‚ or unpredictable‚ situations which they therefore try to avoid by maintaining strict codes of behaviour and a belief in absolute truths. Cultures with a strong uncertainty avoidance are active‚ aggressive‚ emotional‚ compulsive‚ security-seeking‚ and intolerant; cultures with

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    Uncertainty avoidance: The dimension Uncertainty Avoidance has to do with the way that a society deals with the fact that the future can never be known: should we try to control the future or just let it happen? This ambiguity brings with it anxiety and different cultures have learnt to deal with this anxiety in different ways. At 30 China has a low score on uncertainty avoidance. None the less‚ adherence to laws and rules may be flexible to suit the actual situation and pragmatism is a fact of

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    Uncertainty avoidance 1….Uncertainty Avoidance‚ "a society ’s tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity". It reflects the extent to which members of a society attempt to cope with anxiety by minimizing uncertainty. The uncertainty avoidance dimension expresses the degree to which a person in society feels uncomfortable with a sense of uncertainty and ambiguity. The fundamental issue here is how a society deals with the fact that the future can never be known: should we try to control the future or

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    Uncertainty Avoidance What is Uncertainty Avoidance? The Uncertainty Avoidance is one of the five intercultural dimensions developed by Hofstede. This cultural index concerned with a community’s tolerance for dubiousness and amphibology. It demonstrate to what extent a culture programs its members to feel either inconvenient or convenient in unstructured situations. This situations are new‚ unfamiliar‚ surprising‚ and different from usual. Uncertainty avoiding cultures try to reduce the opportunity

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    UNCERTAINTY AVOIDANCE What is uncertainty avoidance? Uncertainty avoidance is the acceptance of assumed causes or explanations of a situation as facts to escape the discomfort associated with ambiguity or uncertainty. In other words‚ it is the actions or steps taken to avoid being uncertain about the future. (www.businessdiscionary.com) How to avoid uncertainty? A way of avoiding uncertainty is by planning everything carefully and relying on rules‚ regulations and laws to make sure

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    Katerina Rizova The Last Samurai Samurai are a group of powerful warriors that existed in Japan until the late 1800’s. In the film “The Last Samurai” we have the opportunity to learn more about the positive characteristics of them. Samurai is very compassionate and they humbly express that emotion. Perhaps the most important trait of the Samurai‚ is discipline. The Last Samurai is a war and drama film‚ based on a true story depicting honour and courage. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) is an

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    The Last Samuri Movie Review The Last Samurai‚ directed by Edward Zwick‚ starring actor Tom Cruise is based on the Japanese history during the end of the 18th century and the start of the 19th. The main focus of the movie is the transformation between a thousand year old tradition of a samurai soldier using a sword as his weapon‚ with the introduction of modern day weapons. During this time period‚ the Japanese communicated with various other cultures such as those of the French‚ English‚ German

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    The Last Samurai Think about your friends‚ family‚ and your loved ones for a second. Think about what luxuries you have and how you have come to love them. Doesn’t it make you feel blessed and lucky to be who you are? Now imagine being thrown onto enemy territory‚ a lonely and dangerous place with nothing. In order to survive you must communicate with the enemy and learn to live their way—the total opposite culture you hate. In the movie‚ The Last Samurai‚ the author portrays a Civil War veteran

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    by the Emperor of Japan to train the country’s first army of the rising sun to contemporary art of warfare. The Emperor is trying to eradicate the ancient Imperial warrior class of samurai‚ in preparation for a more pro-Western government policies supporting foreign trade. Meanwhile‚ as a result of collisions with the samurai‚ Algren finds himself in the center of the confrontation of two worlds and civilizations‚ where the only way to survive is guided by its own concept of honor. 2) Nathan Algren:

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    Macro Fall 2009 Test 1 Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Sophia is planning her activities for a hot summer day. She would like to go to the local swimming pool and see the latest blockbuster movie‚ but because she can only get tickets to the movie for the same time that the pool is open she can only choose one activity. This illustrates the basic principle that a. people respond to incentives. b. rational people think

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