This lesson we talked about culture and the theory of Hofstede. And also we watched videos about American and Asian Culture. After these videos we tried to figure our what is culture?
Culture is not different from country to country, culture is also different in one city who lives in there. But we can not say ."Culture cannot change!" Of course culture is changeable. Different cultures effect each other. Culture comes from ancients, it can be transferred generation to generation. According to Parson:
"Culture consists in those patterns relative to behavior
and the products of human action which may be inherited, that
is, passed on from generation to generation independently of the
biological genes."
In the videos, anthropologist shows us differences between Western Culture and Asian Culture. Western culture's people not so close to each other, but Asian culture's people are so close to each other. And also he/she told us in these videos USA is a country and the Asia is a continent. At the same time he/she mentioned us that culture can change where and how you are looking for. What you see then it is their culture. Because we normally know about Asian people are really different each other.
After these videos we talked about Hofstede's culture theory. Our classroom separated according to the nationality and each group tried to find strengths and challenges. Then each group presented their dimensions. And here our dimensions:
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