Cross-cultural psychiatry

do people with different cultural backgrounds speak different languages, but their styles of using languages are also different as they possess diverse values and beliefs. Modern society’s transnational flows of people will force us to confront these differences in the context ranging from language, arts, education，etc. The novel “Looking for Alibrandi” by Australian author Melina Marchetta published in 1992 has identified and addressed a set of underlying cross-cultural communication challenges…

UNESCO was the first to link the terms “culture” and “development” and again the first to raise the question of the cultural dimension of development taking the responsibility to stimulate the process of integration of the cultural policies into the development strategies worldwide. In 1980s and 1990s need was felt to place people at the center of development processes. In 1998-1999 UNESCO launched the World Decade on Culture…

can be defined varies when viewing the research at an ethnographic standpoint. The key importance in conducting these various types of research depends upon the researcher’s methodology. Sometimes members of various cultures are coherent of their cultural traditions and standards so their viewpoints aren’t always accustomed to accuracy.…

Geert Hofstedes is well known for his research on cross cultural groups and organizations. He developed cultural dimensions theory where he describes national cultures along different dimensions. Each person has their own individual personality, history, and interests. But all people share common human nature which is very social. We use language with collaboration and group competition. There are unwritten rules of how things work from human group to another human group. This is called…

Jhumpa Lahiri’s writing of “Interpreter of Maladies” seeks to illustrate both the difficulty of communication and the differences between cultures. In her short story, Lahiri uses her characters to illustrate these themes using motifs of language, interpretation, and understanding. In her story, Lahiri follows the travels of the Indian-American Das Family on their vacation to India where they meet the taxi driver Mr. Kapasi. As their vacation progresses, readers discover that there are various…

Tonight's discussion Chapter 1: Discuss what is meant by the tripartite framework and what is the importance of it? The tripartite framework is a model that is meant to help someone to better understanding how a person’s identity is formed at different levels. The importance of the tripartite framework is, it helps in communication, and in understanding why a person does some certain actions that we might think is not normal, but in their culture, it is. The tripartite framework has three…

We are talking about the film called "Dances with wolves". To understand the plot and context of this film clearly we should mention that it is important to see the film by own. According to Blake (1998), "Dances with Wolves has been called a "revisionist western" - a movie that reversed the traditional roles of Cowboys and Indians. In fact, it is nothing of the sort. However, it is said, "Dances with wolves" is a historical drama about the relationship between a Civil War soldier and a band of…

Furthermore, virtual teams member are expected to become interdependent, successfully negotiate cultural differences. Global virtual teams are most times made up of people with different cultures and beliefs. This poses as a threat when it comes to norms and tradition. We have not even addressed the possible conflicts that could arise due to time differences between zones of team members. Probably this is why Andres (2008) says multicultural teams have greater potential for misunderstandings and…

When comparing the Hofstede’s 5 cultural dimension between the USA and the Netherlands, we found that there are not only some differences between the two countries, but some similarities as well. We found that both countries have a high number of individualism. The high number of individualism means that they truly only care for themselves and their immediate family. The power distance for both countries have a low score meaning that people in the Netherlands are independent and hierarchy is for…

• Differences in perception and viewpoint. There can be barriers when communicating in different perception and viewpoint, for example when working on a project as in a group everyone has different viewpoint about the project and can be very difficult to work when having to have many disagreements. If a person in the group has an idea for the project and one person does not agree with the idea that the person has, this means that they will less likely to get along with each other and the group…