Personal Narrative: The Theory Of Cultural Differences

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The Theory of cultural Differences works in my everyday life by multipool reasons and reasons that my not come as a norm to most people not in my culture. In my workplace and with family and friends, I experience multiple Cultures that are different than mine.
I myself am more of an individualist instead of a collectivist. The reason that I am more of an individualist than a collectivist is for the reason that if I am not up to my standards I have nobody to blame but me. I know how many hours and hard work I put in and if I fail I am the only person to blame. I have worked in a collectivist group before such at soccer and the problem than I became to realize is that I wanted to win more than others, I would kill to run faster, but others would
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But just by being Latino does not mean that you are masculine. I have seen Latino people afraid of Caucasians, because their skin color is white. They treat Caucasians like if they were floating off the ground and then they see me who is the same nationality as them and they treat me lower than the Caucasians. Even my grandmother treated my half Caucasian half Latino cousin better than me, because having a Caucasian grandchild give her a higher social status.
From high ambiguity and low ambiguity tolerant I would take low ambiguity tolerant any day. An example of my low ambiguity tolerant would be this assignment which did not have many details to start with, which lead to me thinking this over for a few hours until I got the courage and started. This might not be what you like or wanted but this is what my Brilliant mind told my fingers to do after hours of thinking of this project. I feel frightened of being told not enough information. An example would be to go inside and find a key in a house that is not mine, which I have never seen before and look for

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