Intercultural Communication - Response to classmats posts

APPLICATION ESSAY ON VALUE DIMENSIONS OF CULTURE

In the global perspective , it is culture that differentiates the races and locations around the world . Through culture , people have different views on life circumstances and events that are happening everywhere . It is a vast concept that factors in various perceptions , values , behaviors and feelings of people

It is also further equated with personality . Culture is what defines a group of people doing daily tasks in the certain way . According to Judith Martin and Thomas Nakayama (2007 ) on their book on intercultural communication , they

authors mentioned that culture is like a computer program , inherent to its system , which is a certain group of people that reacts on different circumstances and way of life . This program gives us the way to look at the world every day

The world right now begins to merge in many ways . Educationally , many people are already studying outside their home country and are subjected to different nationalities . Also in business , where a lot of multi-national companies are springing around the globe , hiring different nationalities to comprise the workplace . However , thus the major exchange of cultures nowadays , people are still differentiated from one another thus , culture is still a source of familiarity and discomfort to some people

Three of my classmates have aired out their thoughts on the different facets of culture . Geert Hofstede , a Dutch social psychologist , has identified value dimensions on culture to let us further understand the difference among groups of people . These are (1 ) power...