After reading Chapter 2 of the textbook and reviewing Case 2.1 (page 57) answer the following questions. Responses to each question should be 100-200 words (at minimum). You will then review and respond to your classmate’s answers.
Why do you think people tend to exaggerate cultural differences?
What are the most effective ways to deal with either real or imaginary cultural differences? (State at least two and give reasons to support your answer)
Do you have any similar experiences that indicate we should be very cautious in interpreting and generalizing cross-cultural differences?Jacob Hearn Post;
Throughout chapter two we learned many different aspects of how people view each other in the ways that they acted. At the end of the chapter, there was a case study that wants over the aspects of how someone viewed two different culture from just one small interaction of offering someone coffee. Throughout the case study, we view the coffee debate from the Livid point of view, she goes on in the case study about how she felt that the Americans that were in Hungry was being rude for not offering her coffee and how Hungry almost everyone was offering her a cup. throughout the rest of the case study, she goes into detail debating if she was overthinking the entire situation explaining how America culture could be different from Hungry culture. From the way I viewed it, it seems that people overthink the smallest things. In certain cultures, one thing might be rude but in other culture, it is just normal and if someone thinks that it is not being completely fair to that culture. Next, in this world there is a lot of different cultures all around the world and at the time people don't respect these different cultures that need to change. Some of the difference in culture is eating at a dinner table. In many cultures being polite and eating with class is very normal but in some cultures, it would come off as odd, A way that someone can deal with this is by trying to copy the way they eat or not say anything when they start eating different so everyone feels welcome at the table. Another thing that is different in culture is the way they greet each other the way to not come off as rude is before going to the culture learning how they greet and greet them in the way they normally greet each other.