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Globalization: business definition

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free trade and capital flow unhindered by national boundaries (technology, communications, trade, tariffs, migration)

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Globalization: technical definition

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increasing interdependence among national governments, individual citizens, nonprofit organization, businesses

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Culture

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  • from “cultura” > means to grow and cultivate
  • dictates the norms of every group
  • accpected and expected ways of behaving and interacting with other people
  • has to do with how people solve problems and how they perceive shared values, beliefs, attitues, and behaviors
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intercultural

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communication exchange between people who are culturally different.

  • ability to monitor emotions and behaviors in self and in others.
  • focus on the individual
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cross-cultural

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the comparison between the differences across cultures

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international

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  • effect of increasing globalization
  • how people interact from a business or political pov
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emotional intelligence

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understand what my emotions are and how they might affect my communication

  • self-awareness
  • other awareness

ideas of suspending judgment + relationship management

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cultural intelligence

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ability to function skillfully in cultural context different than one’s own

  • empathy
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ethnocentrism

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  • one’s culture is better than others
  • distance between I/we and they
  • blocks process of understanding intercultural differences
  • unconscious
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ethnicity

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describes the ethnic group that people belong to

3 concepts that define my ethnicity:
- heritage: (myth, traditions) shared ancestry;
- ancestry: family tree
- culture: similarity with people based on religion, food, clothes, language, beliefs, attitudes.

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Race

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refers to the distinction based on physical characteristics

= it is a social construct

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Nationality

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refers to a person being a member or citizen of a particular nation (can have more than one and can change nationality)

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Minority

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category of people who are distinguished based on physical or cultural difference, that a society sets apart as subordinate

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Mental models

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  • human nature: biological needs
  • culture: attitudes give us something in common with group of others
  • personality: personal experiences that make each of us unique
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Hofstede’s 6 cultural dimensions

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1- power distance
2- individualism
3- uncertainty avoidance
4- masculinity and femininity
5- long-term/short-term
6- indulgence/restraint

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1- power distance

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the extent to which the less powerful members of a society measure, accept, expect, and justify inequality in society

  • best society > stratified > everyone with their role
  • lower power distance (Germany > liberty of word, expressing ideas, children expect equality) VS higher power distance (Asian countries > boos is a benevolent autocrat, elderly are respected and revered)
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2- Individualism and collectivism

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how we tend to interact with others, either in individual (eastern countries) or in collective (China, Portugal, Greece) ways

  • if personal interests come first, it means less responsibility for others’ well-being
  • educational system individual (personal opinions, debates, friendly teacher-student relationship) VS collective (discipline, lecture-based, hierarchical teacher-student relationship)
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3- uncertainty avoidance

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how a society tolerates ambiguity
- high uncertainty avoidance > Greece
= uncertainty is threat, dangerous, need for rules and clarity + bureaucracy and resistance to innovation > tradition is preferred

  • low uncertainty avoidance > UK, Sweden
    = uncertainty is curiosity, essential, autonomy + low bureaucracy and high innovation
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4- masculinity and femininity

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  • masculine cultures (Germany, Japan)
    = value competition, success, material gains, distinct gender roles, religion: god is the father
  • feminine cultures (Scandinavian countries)
    = focus on cooperation, personal relationship, more role separation, religion: focus on fellow human beings
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5- long-term / short-term orientation

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refers to how a society values its traditions and values

  • long-term (LTO): past and history important, education, rules, perseverance, respect family, sense of shame = don’t lose face.
  • short-term (STO): future important, value on self-realization, respect of self
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6- indulgence/restraint

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how individuals of a society are taught to control desires and impulses

  • indulgence:
    = weak control
    = societal standards for immediate gratification of basis human needs to enjoy life (Mexico, Sweden, Netherlands, USA)
  • restraint:
    = weak control
    = societies believe that people should control their desired through strict social norms (Italy, Japan, France, Germany)
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generalizations

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GOOD CULTURAL GENERALIZATIONS ARE BASED ON SYSTEMATIC CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH

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Empathy

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  • automatic and instinctive process of sensing others’ emotions and allowing it to “resonate” with us
  • cognitive process of imagining others’ experience and emotional state
  • when one is emotionally connected
  • ability to perceive a situation from another person’s perspective without losing one’s own self
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Third space

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the space where:
- negotiation takes place
- the identity is constructed and re-constructed
- identity is not fixed
- we become our own

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Perception of space

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has to do with the space people believe is good for interactions

= the study of how people differ in their use of personal space

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Worldview

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  • differences in the way religion or culture frames the way people look at things
  • beliefs and core assumptions about life and the universe
  • ways of understanding, experiencing, and responding to the world
  • may be a mixture of both religious and non-religious ideas
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Ethics

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the study of what is morally right or wrong

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Ethic

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a set of principles defining the right conduct for a social group, a culture, or a nation

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Perception and culture

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the way in which sensory information is organized, interpreted, and consciously experienced

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Mental representations

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= cognitive maps
= help us categorize what is unfamiliar and complex

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Categorization process

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the ability to generalize and put similar items into categories, allowing us to make sense of unfamiliar subjects

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Generalization

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  • curiosity and learning
  • general rather than specific applications of ideas
  • testing of observations and hypothesis = DATA IS ANALYZED
  • generalization lead to model-formulation
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Prototype

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  • it is a model to be tested
  • mental representations based on general characteristic but are not rigid or fixed but are open to new definitions
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Stereotype

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  • idea that is fixed
  • history of word ‘stereotype’ in printing > set in type or set in stone = cannot be changed
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Sophisticated stereotypes

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categorizations that are backed up with “because scientific research proves it” > sure, but not enough
> exceptions and qualifications are still necessary

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Cultural neuroscience

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studies the interchange between neural and cultural forces with promote cognition, perception, and behavior

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Cognition

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  • our thinking style
  • the way we process information, react to it, and create our own meaning from that information
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Reasoning

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the process of thinking about something in a logical way in order to form a conclusion
DEDUCTIVE: analyze theory before moving to data details
INDUCTIVE: data before general concepts (from specific to general)

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Perceiving

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the process of becoming aware of something through our five senses
SYSTEMIC: big picture, structuring thoughts and solutions based on a broad view of the situation
LINEAR: focus on individual concepts or components, structuring thoughts and solutions using a cause-and-effect structure

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Field dependence

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the perception of an object is influenced by the environment in which it rests

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Confucianism

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piety, kinship, loyalty, respect

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Buddhism

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  • overcoming negative states of mind causing suffering in favor of positive states of mind bringing happiness
  • finding peace within oneself through meditation
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Daoism

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  • becoming one with the environment
  • balance, harmony within an individual and between the individual and nature
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Asians’ holistic approach

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  • collective group perspective
  • multiple perspectives
  • harmony, ‘middle way’ > dialectal thinking
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Westerners’ approach

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  • individual perspective, autonomy
  • independence
  • polarity > right or wrong, correct or incorrect

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