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What is Culture?
Understanding Cultural differences
Dealing with Cultural differences
Case studies
A shared system of
meanings,
beliefs,
values
behaviours
through which experience is
interpreted and carried out
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Culture Is ..
Relative
Learned
Collective
Changes over time
Complex responsive process
Migration
Industrialization
Personal
Minority
Culture Social
Experience
background
Values
World-views
Cross-
Beliefs Ethnic
cultural
background
Adjustments Behaviours
Profession
Religion
Gender Language
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Dangers!
Stereotypes
Prejudice
Ethno-centric perspectives
Beef
Pork
Horse
Everything that moves
Unfamiliar:
Language
Climate
Currency
Road signs
Colleagues
Adaptation process
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The Adaptation Stages
Honeymoon
Initial
confrontation
Adjustment crisis
Recovery
Excitement;
First exciting
Curiosity;
Honeymoon contact with Observe
Slight
new culture
concern
Confusion;
First intensive Solve Mystified
Initial
feeling with problems in about;
confrontation
new culture familiar ways Others
behaviour
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The Adaptation Stages
Frustration;
Experimentation
Adjustment Problems Anger;
with new
crisis intensify behaviours
Confusion
about
New
Sense of New culture is
strategies to
belonging to understandable;
Recovery help one
culture Enjoying many
function aspect of it
emerges
effectively
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Maintaining Good Relations
If you are
Humble
Respectful
Friendly