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CULTURAL ORIENTATIONS - Coggle Diagram

- - - - HCC
      - relationships more important
      - multi-focus
    - - LCC
      - tasks, schedules more imporant
      - mono-focus
      - interrupting is considered rude
  - - - HCC
      - flexibility
      - schedules, deadlines may change
      - "subito"
      - delays tolerated
    - - LCC
      - "time is money"
      - always on time or apologies
      - punctuality, deadlines respected
      - technical time
- - - - large public space easily shared
      - small private space guarded closely
      - often extrovert people
      - work and private life separated
    - - public and private life similar in size
      - entrying in the public space consents entrying into private space as well
      - guarded approach to acquaintances
      - once the relationship has formed all areas of private space are open
  - - - compared to an air bubble
      - it varies depending on the situation
      - An area with an invisible
        boundary surrounding a person’s body into which intruders may not come
      - it develops in our teenage years
- - - - Societies face the same problems
      - Societies answer diffently
    - - average values with a factorial analysis
  - - - how societies accept inequalities
      - high
        
        hierarchical order accepted
        
        no justification
        
        inequalities expected and desired
        
        status depending on "who" someone is
        
        students respect teachers
        
        less powerful people are dependent
        
        parents teach children obedience
        
        e.g. mail
      - low
        
        people try to equalise the distribution of power
        
        justification for inequalities
        
        inequalities should be minimized
        
        status accorded to proved results
        
        students and teachers are equals
        
        people interdependent regardless of power
        
        parents treat children as equals
    - - how people's self-image is defined in terms of "I" or "we"
      - individualism
        
        individuals take care of themselves and their family
        
        loosely-knit framework
        
        e.g. work scenario
        
        children learn in term of "I"
        
        LCC
        
        volountary friendships
        
        honest people say what they think
        
        no premetidated marriage patterns
      - collectivism
        
        individuals expect a group to look after them in exchange for loyalty
        
        tightly-knit framework
        
        children learn in term of "we"
        
        HCC
        
        pre-determined friendships
        
        maintain harmony, avoid conflict
        
        brides younger, bridegrooms older
    - - how members of a society feel with uncertainty and ambiguity
      - strong
        
        rigid codes of beliefs and behaviour
        
        intolerant of unhortodox behaviour
        
        high stress and anxiety
        
        accept familiar risks, fear ambiguous situations
        
        what is different is dangerous
        
        uncertainty is a threat
      - weak
        
        more relaxed attitude
        
        practices counts more than principles
        
        low stress and low anxiety
        
        comfortable in ambiguous situations
        
        what is different is curious
        
        uncertainty is accepted as a feature of life
- - - - inductive
        
        LCC
        
        focus on facts and statistics
        
        from empirical obersvation to theory
        
        start from key point, then developed
      - deductive
        
        focus on theories, logic, principles
        
        from theory to empirical
        
        from background to key points
        
        HCC
    - - systemic
        
        HCC
        
        "holistic"
        
        full picture and background
        
        explainations in terms of feelings
        
        organisation of informations
        
        study on hotel reviews
      - linear
        
        LCC
        
        focus on details
        
        precision, cause and effect, logic
        
        problems dissected into sequences