Emotions and culture

personal differences. Although, one could not imagine what it would be like to go into work and find out that one’s job has been eliminated and then asked to train one’s replacement in another country. Adjusting to the social episodes of another culture would be a difficult challenge, especially if one has never traveled outside of the United States. The proxemics can be defined in as one’s personal space and are cultural-specific. In the movie, one example of this was displayed when the young…

similar in terms of physiology, our behavior and perspectives of the world can vary depending on our culture. We may all have the same structures in our brain but yet, we process information in a distinctive many ways and focus our attention to different things. Nowadays, with research methods, researchers can discover and compare those differences between cultures around the world. In the article, Culture and Blindness, the researchers Takahiko Masuda and Richard E. Nisbett explained the…

Emotions are by definition feelings in response or expectation to an object or event (Clegg, Kornberger and Pitsis, 2008). In the workplace, as in all aspects, emotions may serve to motivate, organize, direct and activate behaviours, but also may be disruptive to the other appropriate work-related and social behaviours (Payne and Cooper, 2004). Organizational communication is highly relevant to develop and maintain a successful structure within. There are often a lot of people working in an…

as progress for the whole world to gain knowledge with one another and to develop together. So, its process is making the cultures of the world more homogeneous. (Globalization, Environment, and Religion). Nowadays, People have the freedom to choose their culture and People find this empowering to shape their cultures but people are choosing and forming a homogeneous culture. The Asian soul is characterized by values such as love of silence and contemplation, proximity to nature, detachment,…

retain Indian tribal languages. In his article, he also gives reasons as to why he thinks Indians are the ones currently at fault for the loss of the languages. Skyhawk uses methods of persuasion that mainly follow the pattern of Pathos-an appeal to emotion- and Logos-an appeal to logic-in his article. His arguments to back up these statements are based around how the current Indian community has not made enough of an effort to practice and pass down the native languages. “Our languages can…

but it is also an international debate. Even if these artifacts were stolen, which we do not know, they still need to be present in their country not in other places like America. They are part of the Egyptian’s background, including the people, culture, religion and so on. Imagine if someone comes to America and digging up George Washington, what are you going to do or what are your thoughts about that? Furthermore, these artifacts will help the economy of their country of origin to increase…

a study about “What is culture?” lead by the University of Warwick, there are around 164 definitions of culture due to the multiple usages of this concept. In my opinion, the best meaning of culture is “the set of attitudes, values, beliefs and behaviors shared by a group of people, but different for each individual, communicated from one generation to the next” (Matsumoto, 1996). Taking into account this concept there is a difference between the broad concept of culture and the cross-cultural…

Personal Reflection (Part I) Culture is often looked at as an integrated pattern of learned behaviors, and beliefs that we often share among groups. This includes the way we interact, communicate, our views on relationships, roles, values, and customs. My culture is very important to me in regards to the music, art, and dance that makes me, me and the others around me, individuals. I grew up listening to music that I loved, along with learning how to dance through many dance classes I took.…

Thus, bilingual people often find themselves in the situation of changing their attitude and conveying different emotions when speaking either language, a thing which is impossible to do for a monolingual person, as the Polish linguist also affirms: For bilingual people, living with two languages can mean indeed living in two different emotional worlds and also traveling back and forth between those two worlds. This fascinating aspect is caused by cognitive processes that interfere with our…

Hispanic culture celebrates the 15th birthday of their young ladies. These celebrations are called Quinceaneras. They are celebrations where the family showcases the young lady and introduces her to society, basically celebrating her coming of age. However living in America, it’s customs have become our customs therefore we decided to celebrate my daughters sweet sixteen. During this highly anticipated event we surprised our family members with music and a folk dance from my Parents homeland, it…