Cultural Analysis Paper
No matter how hard we try, or how much we study, it is pretty much impossible to become an expert on all the world’s cultures. It is possible however, to be enlightened on a few cultures through some effort and understanding. That is just what we did, through interviewing three people who were raised in cultures different from ours. The following are results from what we learned about different cultural dimensions.
GENDER EGALITARIANISM
Gender egalitarianism, as defined in the Globe study, measures societies’ beliefs about whether members’ biological sex should determine the roles that they play in their homes, business organizations, and communities. This can be made seen in attitudinal domains, as well as
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We asked her how her country differed from what she has experienced in the US. She described how she envisioned everyone in the US being rich and no poor people. She was shocked to see how different it really was. Even though she could not speak English she could tell this place was immensely different from El Salvador. “Yes many people are rich here but they have lost so much more than they have gained and they don’t even know it.” To Ana, family is the most important thing to have; she sees a lot of Americans giving up family time to pursue other “worldly things”. We found it interesting that Ana was able to identify our individualistic ways without even knowing how to communicate with most of the people here.
HIGH POWER DISTANCE For the final two dimensions, we interviewed a Chinese transfer student named Cong Feng (Lisa), who has only been here for six months. Due to the little amount of time spent here, our first issue was a fairly tough language barrier, which prohibited us from receiving any sort of detailed or complex answers, but the sufficed enough to draw some understanding. The Hofstede Cultural Dimensions defines high power distance as the extent to which the less powerful members of organizations and institutions accept and expect that power is distributed unequally
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1. Culture is perceived as a way of thinking that influences the behaviors of a group of people.