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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a book that highlights the struggles between two cultures in healthcare. The lack of understanding and communication lead to a medical tragedy for Hmong child Lia Lee. The story starts with the Lee’s forced immigration to America and talks about Lia being born with epilepsy. As the story unfolds there are many challenges that both cultures face in attempt to provide the best care for Lia. The family has very strong religious and cultural beliefs…

Douglas Henning Henning 1 Adam Smidi, M.B.A. IBUS 3150-001 09/21/2015 Exam #1 Michelin Case Study A complex web of cause and effect can be used to describe the decline of relationships, trust, respect, and eventually productivity in this case study. But when we look for the reasons for these declines they are not readily apparent until we compare and contrast the cultures involved, using Hofstede’s Dimensions of Culture. Quite simply, these dimensions are a model of national and…

The movie Crash is a multidimensional film set in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and exhibits the various cultures living in one city and how these multiple cultures interact. The tone of the film seems very somber as it views the life of individuals from different social classes and areas and how lives can intersect and impact one another. This paper will evaluate and explain the impact of cultural identity and bias, cultural patters and intercultural communication within this film.…

The Unseen Shame of Public vs. Private Conversations If you were to ask most people what the word “language” represented, you would likely be given a general and vague explanation such as, a system of letters and symbols with corresponding rules that when arranged to form words, and properly and uniformly pronounced allow individuals to communicate within their circles. The ability to communicate clearly is part of what holds a society together, it allows us to live and work together, and…

Lacking Cultural Competency In the book Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies written, by Seth Holmes who has a PHD in anthropology, he writes about Triqui migrants, and how they migrate up and down the west coast of the United States. Risking their lives crossing the borders to work in US, therefore they face various obstacles and, being morbidity situations. The way the migrants are being treated in the hospitals and clinics is unreasonable the healthcare workers both in the US and Mexico lack ' '…

An extension of the structuralism methods includes the Derridean linguistic methods of deconstruction. Hills Like White Elephants consistently suggests the ideas of pregnancy and abortion. The title itself contains the word hills that could be in reference to a baby bump; furthermore, the world elephants contain nine letters that insinuate the idea of the nine months term that occurs during pregnancy. When viewing the text through the deconstructive theoretical lens, the words hills and…

Scheflen is known for his work in non verbal communication such as body language or kinesics. Kinesics is the understanding of body language through posture, body movement, touch, facial expression, dress and language. Scheflen views communication as a social level process. Human relationships are organized into a hierarchy of integrated levels such as groups or societies. Human relationships are programmatic and structured, when put in a situation people will come up with a cause and then a…

As a team captain of my high school’s cross country and track teams, I make an extra effort to reach out to my underclassmen to make them feel welcome and supported. I know in my first year of running in high school, it was hard to feel welcome in a sport when everyone was literally running away from you. Luckily, I grew faster and made many amazing friends, but I believe everyone should be included in the team dynamic, even if they are not a top runner or an extrovert. New people on their first…

Typically, the host sets the agenda and guides the visitor through the course of an engagement. In cultures in which business is based on trust, the personal relationship before any business discussions can begin. Business people from these cultures use the social gathering as a way to get to know the other person and avoid business discussions during that time. Business people should learn how the other side approaches business and what the principles of hospitality are. Generally, the rules…

Closeness or Personal Space (Proxemics) Each culture, and even within cultures in terms of rural and urban living, has different levels of physical closeness appropriate to different types of relationship, and individuals learn these distances from the society in which they grew up. In today's multicultural society, it is important to consider the range of non-verbal codes as expressed in different ethnic groups. When someone violates an 'appropriate' distance, people may feel uncomfortable or…