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culture
is the complex whole that includes knowledge,belief,art,law,moral,customs, and other capabilities and habits acquired by humans as members of society
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culture is acquired
different families have different beifies. you learn thing
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culture provides boundaries (norms and sanctions)
- norms- boundaries that culture sets on behaviors
- sanctions- penalties ranging from mild social disapproval to banishment from the group
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variations in cultural values 43
- other oriented values- individual/collective, youth/age,masculine/feminine (relationship between individuals and groups within society)
- Environmental-Oriented Values- Cleanliness, performance/Status (relationship to its economic and technical as well as it physical environment)
- Self-Oriented Values- Acitve/Passive, Sensual/Abstinence,Material/No material (that individuals members of society find desirable)
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cultural variations in nonverbal communications
- Time- Americans think time is fixed (momochronic ) Asians see it as less descrete (polychronic)
- Space- personal space
- Symbols- colors, shapes , animals
- relationships- (guanxi)
- agreements-
- things-
- etiquette-
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Guanxi
- Chinese relationship are complex and described under guanxi
- guanxi- translated as personal conncection/relationship on which an individual can draw to secure resources or advantages when doing buisness as well as in the course of life.
- ongoing score card, the favors you owe, you still owe if you go to new job or die
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