跨文化商务沟通 Chapter 5

5.2.2 Ethnocentrism
Parenting style and Interpersonal networking.
Ethnocentrism, which is, negatively judging aspects of another culture by the standard of one’s own culture.
5.2.1 Cultural Differences
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Picture 5 shows different interpersonal relationship Chinese tend to hold a circular social network, thus every dot in the network would have relation with the others, which makes the interpersonal network is pretty intricate. American’s interpersonal networking is relatively simple and straightforward.
5.2.1 Cultural Differences
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Picture 2 shows that Chinese and American display contrary social styles Chinese tend to socialize with each other in the same group Americans adore socializing with each other in isolated small groups
Last but not the least, we will explain the strategies for intercultural adaption.
5.1 Defining Intercultural Conflicts
• Cultural conflicts are difficult to resolve as parties to the conflict have different beliefs. Cultural conflicts intensify when those differences become reflected in politics, particularly on a macro level.
5.2.1 Cultural Differences
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Unique Chinese national policy of “only child” : one family only has one child, which makes the children as the center of the whole family but different in America.
5.2.1 Cultural Differences
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Picture 3: Power Distance Chinese regard the leader as a very dominating role. in U.S. everyone is born equal, so does the leader, the only difference between a leader and a subordinate is the different duty for them.
Picture 1 illustrates the different views on individuality in Chinese and American perception. American culture: individualism Chinese culture: collectivism
This kind of perception can easily lead to culture conflicts and makes people refuse to be tolerate to the culture diversity of world
5.2.2 Ethnocentrism
5.2 Stemming Causes of Intercultural Conflicts
People in different cultures may want to maintain their cultural identity and just keep the world as a salad bowl.
5.2.1 Cultural Differences
Different living environments stimulate people to view the world differently, and these accumulated views on the world mound into shared tradition, customs and then shape the specific culture of a specific group of people.
CHAPTER 5 Intercultural Shock and Culture Adaption
Learning Objectives
Defining intercultural conflicts Understand the causes of intercultural conflicts Understand the culture shock and processes of acculturation Recognize the different modes of acculturation: assimilation ,
Please look at the following five pictures and explain the different aspects affected by cultural differences.
5.2.1 Cultural Differences
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integration, separation/ segregation and marginalization Master the stages of intercultural adaption --- U curve and W
curve Perceive culture conflict management strategies and achieve
“A fish out of water” is a popular saying used to express someone who is living in a new culture.
5.3 Defining Culture Shock
The reasons for culture shock can be various: Firstly, the anxiety resulting from losing all our familiar signs. Secondly, the subconscious cures which make what we are
Parenting style and Interpersonal networking.
The other extreme of ethnocentrism is cultural relativism.
It is the idea that a person's beliefs and activities should be understood based on that person's own culture. It involves the view that all cultures are of equal value and the values and behaviors of a culture can only be judged using that culture as a frame of reference.
Cultural Conflict
We will define cultural conflicts at first; and then stem the cause of it;
Moreover, we will explain a typical phenomenon caused by culture conflict: the culture shock, and how to resolve this problem: intercultural adaption / acculturation.
5.3 Defining Culture Shock
According to wikipedia’s definition, culture shock was first introduced by the anthropologist Oberg in 1954, it refers to an experience a person may have when one moves to a cultural environment which is different from one's own.
5.2.1 Cultural Differences
All the five pictures illustrate the cultural differences between China and U.S.
They cover the aspects of Individualism vs. Collectivism ; Parenting style and Interpersonal networking.