My Cross Culture Understanding Task (reading 2)

TASK:

Dear Class,

Again to continue from last week class, please read page 28 - 63 of Cultural Intelligence book. I want you to post based on your understanding on the following sub topics as a guide:

- Do cultures change over time = what does the book say about that and what do you say?

- Five basic culture scales = what are they, what each scale means, and how do we apply them?

- Every culture ranks somewhere based on the five scales. Tell us where is the position of your own culture? 

Your postings are not limited to the above, but I want you to expand freely according to your own opinion and understanding. 

I will close the class as usual by mid-night tomorrow. So please do your reading carefully. Also, do no forget to submit your autobiographies to both my e-mail and class schedule of this ICA. I will not accept any assignments turned in after the due date.

Good luck.  

Instructor

MY ANSWER:

I get some point after reading the book:

1. The book says that the culture change over time but also culture remain the same over time. I like Brooks analogy about that, a maple tree remains a maple tree although the leaves color change everyday and the branch was fall and another branch grow up. That is culture. We know about assimilation and acculturation, and I agree if some culture change but the new influence must filtered and become acculturation not assimilation.

2. Five basic culture scales that tell in that book are:

- Equality vs Hierarchy

This part means some culture that base on equality more flexible, open minded with another person opinion and treat the men and woman in same way. The hierarchy culture prefer to military ways and bossy

-   direct vs indirect 

The culture that base on direct style more direct in speaking and say what they want, they don't really count another feeling and they avoid the wrong interpretation of what they are saying. The indirect one more polite in show their feeling, they could say yes in the appropriate way in their opinion for something that means not. We must really careful in interpret their words.

- individual vs group

There are some advantages and disadvantages of these two points. Individual need when we are not in group, we are not always in group when we must make some individual decision. Also we are as social being, we could not always alone. We need another people to open our mind. The more they opposite with us, the more they have things than we don't think about. Be in the middle of these two points.

-   task vs relationship

The culture that take task style commonly use stereotypes and hard worker and in the serous case they are perfectionist. The relationship style is open minded and has a goog relation and communication with other. They are little bit lazy.

-   risk vs caution

a risk style is more creative and innovative. They think what the future would need but they usually inconsistent in the final of their decision. The caution one is more careful and slowly. There are too afraid to take the final decision but sometimes it needed.

3. in my opinion, my culture there are in 8, but I think that will change soon, I saw that my culture will get in 6 or 5 because of acculturation.