Low culture

Culture and Language In order to access a culture, language is the key. You cannot fully understand a culture without speaking its language. This is because the values and worldview of a particular cultural group are embedded within their language use. For example, highly individualistic cultures often use "I" statements, while collectivistic cultures would use "we" and "our" more frequently. Intercultural scholars have posited two worldviews that divide Western and nonWestern cultures. These…

I had the opportunity to take the Go Culture Assessment, which was prepared by Dr. Carly, H. Dodd. After taking the survey, I found out so many interesting aspects of my social and flexibility skills. What made this survey extremely valuable to me, was the fact that, I am going to the Island of Trinidad and Tobago and this survey thought me a lot. I got to see my strengths, and weaknesses when it comes to being diverse cultural person. The survey had a numerous amount of questions that…

“Time has changed. Companies cannot afford to ignore social responsibility.” Nowadays, social responsibility has become an important factor; in fact, companies have the obligation to do good in the communities and countries in which they operate will long rage on. As the book mentions, sustainable business has to take into account the interest of future generations, human rights, animal protections, and global warmings. In 2005 Nike suffers again some social responsibility, and legal…

would define these terms as “the extent to which a culture emphasizes the individual versus the group (Wild and Wild, 2016, 64).” Derived from this definition, people can see cultures that value a more individualistic society value hard work, encourage entrepreneurs, and inspire risk taking. Often times this kind of attitude can create innovation, but upon failure the blame usually will fall directly upon those in charge. Collectivist cultures put more value on family and groups. These…

different?" that every society has its own unique way of doing things, which is termed as a people's culture. The demonstration about streets in the U.S.A. and blocks in Japan shows that what one community thinks is obvious in their setting is totally strange in another community/society. Sivers stresses the importance of traveling away from one's country to learn and understand other people's culture to avoid contradictions especially when it comes to business communications (Sivers).…

between Japanese and India INTRODUCTION Culture is a group of people has the same characteristics like values, religion, norms and beliefs. All cultures have different behavior, thoughts and attitudes so in this era the cultures can know about other cultures how they live or behave or work .Moreover, the most import thing is it know how those cultures can understand and communicate with each other .Therefore In this essay, I will compare two cultures Japan and India through five points:…

they now live with permanent scars of suffer discrimination, racism and prejudice that can possibly never be repaired. Throughout this period the government were empowered to forcibly remove children from their families the children received a very low level of education as they were guided to be labourers and domestic servants. These children were abused psychologically, physically and sexually while they were in state care or with adopted families, as a result of this abuse it has been…

Advocacy and Its Role in Cultural Diversity Tenia Madison Ohio University Ethical dilemmas may arise when caring for diverse populations. Different cultures have their own beliefs and values that can influence health decisions and behaviors. The purpose of this paper is to examine an ethical dilemma that I have encountered during my practice. Then I will describe the perception of the dilemma by presenting both sides of the issue and any conflicting values and beliefs. Finally, I…

of the society. The information about the low and high context cultures provides important details about the type of people and their cultural practices, which makes it easier for others to interact with them. The cultural differences are sometimes considered as a huge barrier to effective communication because of the differences in the cultural practices and linguistic differences. In this respect, it is wise to become knowledgeable about different cultures, and for…

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…