Culture is a kind of behavior between the interactions of people, groups or individual. It can be differentiating in religion, language, habits, arts and food. In this multi racial society, it is an advantages to get to understand cultural diversity. Interactive between people would help us to improve our communication in order to minimize the conflict between us and the other races.
There are different elements of culture, for example: arts, gastronomy, celebrations, and performing arts etc. Gastronomy is a study between food and culture. There are a lot of cuisine from different country or from the specific races such as French cuisine, Italian cuisine or Japanese cuisine while in China they can differentiate to regional cuisines such as …show more content…
According to Kittler, Rygl and Mackinnon, “the concept of high-/low-context communication was originally introduced in 1959 but elaborated in Beyond Culture (Hall, 1976)”. (2011) High context culture is type of a communication using a contextual element such as voice tone or body languages and most of the content are implicit. High context culture can be seen mostly in Asia or Middle East people. The characteristic of high context cultures includes learning in a group, before starting any business, it must have a based of trust between both relationship, and they usually rely more on interpersonal relationships. For example, Japanese usually work in a group and they will have a long discussion before deciding a matter and a trusted relationship before starting a business as they need a long-term relationship basis business. In most of the Asian or Middle East, they will be speaking implicitly as they will not talk straight to the point for what they want. In contrast, in a low context culture is more to individual rather than being in a group. Privacy or personal space are important to them, if somebody breakthrough their privacy, they will felt offensive. Low context culture usually shown on American or European. The characteristic as a low context person are they will speak straight to the points as words are important, messages are delivered directly and explicitly, and relationship are …show more content…
Asian culture is more to hierarchy based by following age, education or in workplace, they will look at the position. Asian kids have to get parents permission for everything they wanted to do, studies or go out with friends. In a traditional Chinese culture, Men or boys always be the most important and pampered in the family as they can earn money for the family while girls or women are just to take care of the family and be a housewife. In educational way, Asian culture are more to academic studies. They will spend time in studies and tuition class after school. The grades are important if the children get bad results from school, they will get physical punishment from the elderly or parents. In a speaking way, Asian usually speaks implicitly, they will try to avoid conflict as they can. In most of the perceptions of the Asian behavior, they will try to avoid eye contact when talking to others and this is showing less confident or no interest in that conversation. There are Asian who speak fluent in English but always got a misconception that they are not understand or not knowledgeable. In western culture, they tend to be more individualistic. Everyone of them have their own uniqueness as they can have shown in their personality or interest. Parents always trained them to gain more confidence and have they own opinion or contribution to the other. In
There are different elements of culture, for example: arts, gastronomy, celebrations, and performing arts etc. Gastronomy is a study between food and culture. There are a lot of cuisine from different country or from the specific races such as French cuisine, Italian cuisine or Japanese cuisine while in China they can differentiate to regional cuisines such as …show more content…
According to Kittler, Rygl and Mackinnon, “the concept of high-/low-context communication was originally introduced in 1959 but elaborated in Beyond Culture (Hall, 1976)”. (2011) High context culture is type of a communication using a contextual element such as voice tone or body languages and most of the content are implicit. High context culture can be seen mostly in Asia or Middle East people. The characteristic of high context cultures includes learning in a group, before starting any business, it must have a based of trust between both relationship, and they usually rely more on interpersonal relationships. For example, Japanese usually work in a group and they will have a long discussion before deciding a matter and a trusted relationship before starting a business as they need a long-term relationship basis business. In most of the Asian or Middle East, they will be speaking implicitly as they will not talk straight to the point for what they want. In contrast, in a low context culture is more to individual rather than being in a group. Privacy or personal space are important to them, if somebody breakthrough their privacy, they will felt offensive. Low context culture usually shown on American or European. The characteristic as a low context person are they will speak straight to the points as words are important, messages are delivered directly and explicitly, and relationship are …show more content…
Asian culture is more to hierarchy based by following age, education or in workplace, they will look at the position. Asian kids have to get parents permission for everything they wanted to do, studies or go out with friends. In a traditional Chinese culture, Men or boys always be the most important and pampered in the family as they can earn money for the family while girls or women are just to take care of the family and be a housewife. In educational way, Asian culture are more to academic studies. They will spend time in studies and tuition class after school. The grades are important if the children get bad results from school, they will get physical punishment from the elderly or parents. In a speaking way, Asian usually speaks implicitly, they will try to avoid conflict as they can. In most of the perceptions of the Asian behavior, they will try to avoid eye contact when talking to others and this is showing less confident or no interest in that conversation. There are Asian who speak fluent in English but always got a misconception that they are not understand or not knowledgeable. In western culture, they tend to be more individualistic. Everyone of them have their own uniqueness as they can have shown in their personality or interest. Parents always trained them to gain more confidence and have they own opinion or contribution to the other. In