Aspects of Non-verbal Language: - ✔✔Time - flexible in many cultures
Space - Arabs and Latins may get a little too close
Material possessions - type of suit, watch, car and phone
Friendship patterns - who you kno
Business agreements - formal or info
Values - ✔✔shared beliefs which have been internalized.
Attitudes - ✔✔evaluation of alternatives based on internalized values.
Manners and Customs - ✔✔Gift giving
How products are used
Material Culture - ✔✔Value placed on material possessions by society
Aesthetics - ✔✔what is or is not considered to be beautiful or in good taste
education - ✔✔Education plays a major role in passing on culture from one
generation to another
Social Institutions - ✔✔Social institutions affect the way people relate.
Culture Classifications - ✔✔high context or low context
,high-context - ✔✔meaning changes depending on individual behavior or speech
(reading between the lines) (japan, Latin america, European)
low context - ✔✔intentions expressed verbally. meaning is explicit (u.s. Russia,
Australia and new Zealand)
Hofstede's Framework: - ✔✔Individualism vs. collectivism
Power distance
Uncertainty avoidance
Masculine vs. feminine
Individualism vs. collectivism - ✔✔the extent to which different culture emphasizes
the individual over the group
power distance - ✔✔society accepts social inequality
uncertainty avoidance - ✔✔tolerant of ambiguity
masculine vs. feminine - ✔✔culture is nurturing
Kluckhohn-Strodtbeck Framework: - ✔✔- environment controls them or that they
control their environments
-focus on past events, the present or the future implications of their actions
-trusted to act freely and responsibly.
- accomplishments in life, a carefree life or a spiritual life.
, -Do people believe that individuals or groups are responsible for each person's welfare
- conduct activities in private or public.
Gannon's Metaphors - ✔✔descriptive metaphors for different cultures
(american football = competitive and individualistic)
Importance of International Trade - ✔✔-Allows countries to specialize in the
production of those products they are best suited to producing
- a wider range of products
-greater efficiency and productivity = econ growth
-Source of revenue for govt
Exports - ✔✔manufacture in home country sold foreignly
imports - ✔✔produced in a foreign country sold in home country
the Thucydides' Trap - ✔✔rising power challenged established power (16 instances
12 military conflicts)
Protectionism - ✔✔measures to unduly (excessive) restrict trade and foreign
investment
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