3 Approaches for Working with Cultures
A very good schema for orientation if addressing different cultures or working with them. This is related to cultures, firms, organisations and other Systems.
Be aware of this, prepare yourself in this sense, build up your concepts and don`t miss this as a theoretical and practical orientation.
And have fun! To explore different cultures is fun……………
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Remembering Vincent Chin
The anniversary of his death on June 18 th reminds of the beginning of an important development and movement in the US. He was killed by two white workers after a dispute in a bar. He and a few friends were at a local bar celebrating his upcoming wedding. Also at the bar were two White autoworkers, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz who later killed him.
Vincent’s death has had a powerful legacy on the Asian American community — as a result of the collective action demanding justice, it contributed to the development of the “pan-Asian American” identity that exists today.
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“Double-Eight” is the value of a father
As it is said at Wikipedia Father’s Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June, but it is also celebrated widely on other days. Father’s Day was created to complement Mother’s Day, a celebration that honors mothers and motherhood.
A complementary integration lives from the fact that both sides, both poles belong to each other. It also means that both sides influence the other in a way that complementation always gets back into a good balance.
I was told that father`s day in China is not at all ……………..
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Europeans learn Chinese but firms say don’t bother
The labor market grows especially in China. More and more Chinese on the other hand leave China to work or study in Europe or the US. Of course a basic language competence is needed. But also a well based experience in the foreign language is needed.
To find this experience you have to work in the foreign country. This is just easy to know and to follow. And yet there is a big difference in the people`s interest and the interest of firms.
If you want to get to know more about this, just have a look:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100798241
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Facial expression is different in different cultures
Central to all human interaction is the mutual understanding of emotions, achieved primarily by a set of biologically rooted social signals evolved for this purpose—facial expressions of emotion. Although facial expressions are widely considered to be the universal language of Emotion and some negative facial expressions consistently elicit lower recognition levels among Eastern compared to Western Groups for a meta-analysis and and for review). Here, focusing on the decoding of facial expression signals, we merge………
Read MoreThe Application of Nonverbal Communication (Zhang Xiaoqin)
Abstract: Nonverbal communication is very important because we use the actions of others to learn about their affective or emotional states. The paper is mainly directed towards an English teacher who needs to acquire and apply nonverbal communication, which will enable us to cope with everyday communicative situations.Firstly, it summarizes the importance of nonverbal communication. It then points out some functions of nonverbal communication which will help the teacher to orient his own activity within the classroom. Finally, it discusses the relationships between nonverbal communication and culture which will help the learners in their acquisition of communicative ability.
Key words: nonverbal communication; functions;culture differences
If you want to get to know more about it, have a look. It`s worth reading
http://www1.open.edu.cn/elt/9/4.htm
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Money is …………
coagulated feeling/emotion and functions in form of relationship among people of and in all cultures.
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Communicating food and meals by photos in web 2.0 (part 2)
Perhaps you remember what I posted yesterday on communicating food and meals via web 2.0. Here you will find more aspects:
Communicating food and meals by photos in web 2.0 (part 1)
Why do so any people take photos of their meals? And post them even while eating?
This phenomena is so common that most of us don`t these questions. Let me take some time to think about it and share my ideas. The German professor Eva Barlösius just published a book, called „sociology of meals / eating“. The conclusions of her study convinced me at once. Here is a very brief summary, in order not to disturb you while eating. J
Function of the eyes (an embodyed story -part 8 -)
Eyes are the key:
