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Culture Matters

Culture Matters. Communicate with those around you Learn their language and silent language Get an understanding for their culture and how they live their lives. The Goal Is Understanding. Knowing and respecting the norms of their country even if it is different than your own.

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Culture Matters

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  1. Culture Matters

  2. Communicate with those around you • Learn their language and silent language • Get an understanding for their culture and how they live their lives. The Goal Is Understanding

  3. Knowing and respecting the norms of their country even if it is different than your own. • Respect, tolerance and acceptance. Cultural Sensitivity

  4. Accept the people behave the way they do for a reason. • You don’t have to like it, or act that way as well but you must respect the people. Understanding

  5. Culture consists of concepts, values, and assumptions about life that guide behavior and are widely shared by people....[These] are transmitted generation to generation, rarely with explicit instructions, by parents...and other respected elders. • Richard Brislin& Tomoko Yoshida What is Culture?

  6. Infants: eating, walking, talking, dressing (clothes), bathing, etc.. • Adults: new behaviors or ways to preform culture that you may not have as a child. Acquiring Culture

  7. Observation/ instruction • Imitation • Reinforcement • Internalization • Spontaneous manifestation Process of cultural conditioning

  8. The meaning given to it by the person who does the action, and • The meaning given to it by the person who observes the action • This is only successful communication when both meanings are the same. Interpreted Behaviors

  9. I feel as those the united states is more individualistic, so it will interesting to observe Jamaica and see how they react to one another. Collectivists Vs. individualist

  10. All kinds of tourists are fair game for [con artists] but Americans seem their favorite targets, not just because of their careless ways with money and instinctive generosity, but also their non-European innocence about the viler dimensions of human nature... • Paul Fussell, Abroad

  11. Emphasize physical beauty and youth. • Fire older people to hire younger people for less money. • Judge a worker’s worth based on production, not seniority. • American View—The American emphasis on concrete achievements and “doing” means that age is not highly valued, for the older you are the less you can accomplish. Age is also suspect because new is usually better in American culture, and the elderly are generally out of touch with what’s new. Age

  12. A low level of personal savings is typical. • You can always start over. • Nothing ventured, nothing gained. • A high level of personal bankruptcies is common. • American View—There will always be enough opportunity to go around, so taking risks, involves no real danger. For the truly ambitious, failure is only temporary. Experimentation, trial and error are important ways to learn or to improve your product or service. Risk Taking

  13. American View—Because we are ultimately in control of our lives and destiny, we have no excuse for unhappiness nor misfortune. If you are suffering or unhappy, then just do whatever it takes to be happy again. If you’re depressed, it’s because you have chosen to be. Misfortune and Suffering

  14. It’s important to tell it like it is, be straight with people. • Confrontation is sometimes necessary to clear the air. • Honesty is the best policy. • American View—In individualist cultures, no premium is put on saving face because people can take care of themselves. What other people think is not so crucial to survival or success. We can say what we think without worrying about hurting people’s feelings, and we likewise appreciate directness. Concept of Face

  15. Things will get better. • Bad things happen for a reason. • It can’t get any worse. • Tag line of fairy tales: “They lived happily ever after.” Realism

  16. How you behave in a given situation depends on the circumstances. You treat family, friends, and your in-group the best you can, and you let the rest of the world take care of itself. Their in groups will protect them. There can’t be absolutes because everything depends on whom you’re dealing with. No one expects life to be fair. Exceptions will always be made for certain people. Universalism Vs. Particularism

  17. Jamaica seems as though it was a striving farming island, violence and poverty is very common now • Tourism • Mid 20’s is the average age Culture

  18. Hot, tropical • Sugar, coco, coffee • I expect it to be very tropical looking, more like the Caribbean, very different than the US. Expectations

  19. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/jm.htmlhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/jm.html • http://wws.peacecorps.gov/wws/publications/culture/pdf/introduction.pdf • http://wws.peacecorps.gov/wws/publications/culture/pdf/chapter1.pdf • http://wws.peacecorps.gov/wws/publications/culture/pdf/chapter2.pdf Resources

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