Cultural Dissonance

Management, and the ability to lead and cultivate a team of individuals who strive to meet targets, work hard, and have loyalty to their company is an extremely difficult task by any standards. It requires a unique kind of person who is both demanding and rewarding, who can handle confrontation and who holds people to reasonable standards while encouraging teamwork and cooperation. This alone makes running a company, and finding upper and middle managers to facilitate plans and goals a worthy task, but with the advent of fast paced globalization, companies are now having to handle not only their internal management styles, but the management styles of a variety of different countries and cultures.

Mergers and acquisitions has become an important part of the American commerce, which communication plays an important role in reducing the negative impacts. While Schweiger agrees that failure to communicate with employees during a merger will increase employee uncertainty and anxiety, he highlights that previous researchers (Napier et al., 1989) did not measure uncertainty nor any of the supposed dysfunctional outcomes said to follow uncertainty.

Dissonance is being unsatisfied with how things are and how we want them to be. A feeling of unhappiness with one’s job, wishing it would pay more or be more fulfilling can be described as a dissonance. Unhappiness with how different America’s political landscape is from how we want it to be would also show a dissonance.

the purpose of this paper is to describe the author’s second encounter with cultural immersion within the community of older homeless individuals. This reflection paper outlines what occurred, the experience, challenges faced, and emotions and thoughts of what transpired. As this project coming to an end, the student expresses a deep level of understanding of the population presented.

When it comes to cultural dissonance. First, we should understand what culture is. Culture is what you are not willing to accept but the rules and knowledge of the past. The benefits of these rules and perceptions in most people in practice may benefit from or believe in. Therefore, these rules and knowledge have become the majority of contemporary people's choice. This constitutes the content of the cultural subject. However, if this rule or understanding has been completely proved by objective practice, it will not adhere to it, and it has the cultural renewal capability. Therefore, the culture is mainly the rules and knowledge which are difficult to give the final verdict (belonging to the value and philosophy level), and have four characteristics of subjectivity, continuity, mass and usefulness. Cultural dissonance is a phenomenon. This refers to the fact that when individuals who are involved in a wide variety of cultures face a conflict between the rules of one culture and the rules of another. That is, when the values of culture conflict with the values of another culture. Cultural dissonance is happen every day. It is easy to imagine a recent group of immigrants from an international setting. Typical conflicts include moral, spiritual, and even identity levels. Such as fashion, entertainment and speech. However, the concept of cultural dissonance may occur even in people with common national backgrounds. There are two examples of cultural differences between

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“I don’t mind being hated, but I hate being misunderstood.” (Anonymous). No one enjoys being misunderstood.. The thought of being misjudged causes the majority of people much aggravation, whether it is based on something he/she said or the entire person. People often misjudge or misunderstand outsiders, or those that do not belong.

The world is full of cultural collisions. Every day people meet other with different worldviews. This concept of cultural collision, is shown perfectly though Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. In the story it is the cultural collision, of the introduction of Western Ideas into the ibo society, that causes Achebe’s characters to grow and change. One character in particular is forced to reevaluate his sense of identity because of the cultural collision. This is the character of Okonkwo. The collision challenges Okonkwo’s sense of self, as a religious leader or an Egwugwu, as a leader of his people, and as a man. It is Okonkwo’s response to these challenges, that shapes the meaning of the book of that as your world changes so must you or you

Despite overall improvements in breast cancer survival in the past 10 years, significant disparities persist which result in inequitable delivery of healthcare. Women with invasive breast cancer from lower socioeconomic statuses (SES) are more likely diagnosed at later stage, receive suboptimal treatments, and have higher rates of breast cancer mortality than their less deprived counterparts1–3. Less is known regarding disparities related to levels of rurality or urbanization in breast cancer. One study has found that, after adjusting for socioeconomic status, white women with breast cancer living in rural areas had marginally higher mortality rates than those living in urban areas2. Moreover, several studies have demonstrated differences in breast cancer management between rural and urban hospitals4,5. Although SES is correlated with rural-urban residency, few studies have accounted for both factors in their assessment of breast cancer disparities.

This article examines current literature to consider whether or not teachers' cultural and ethnic biases may influence the results of standardized behavior rating scales used to measure student functioning. The authors briefly mention research regarding construct bias and predictive bias related to behavior rating scales. Their study, however, focuses on research related to rater bias. The authors chose to examine rater bias in terms of cultural and ethnic biases for this study because they believed incorporating more variables at this early stage of research would confuse more than clarify. For this study, cultural bias was defined as systematic error attributed to differences in the rater's cultural expectations and beliefs. Ethnic bias

The world has millions of people of diverse cultural backgrounds. They have their own beliefs, food habits, art forms, and dressing styles. Since ancient times, these people are coming across each other and are exchanging their ideas. However, sometimes people turn hostile because of their cultural prejudices. This tendency to judge the other people based on the standards of his or her own culture is cultural bias. It is a major hindrance in performing a cross-cultural research. A person who is culturally biased ignores the differences that exist between his own culture and other cultures. Cultural bias can stereotype a culture. When a person says his cultures superior to others, he is undoubtedly culturally biased. Such a person never appreciates

This tension causes the individual to change their attitude to match their behavior or change the behavior to match the attitude. Festinger believed when people act in a way which is contrary to the beliefs that are held, they have a tendency to change their beliefs to match their actions. (Zajonc) After further research outside of class time, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ve been suffering from intergenerational cultural dissonance or intergenerational cultural conflict. ICD (intergenerational cultural dissonance) is, family conflict due to the cultural dissonance that emerges between generations. Asian immigrant families try to retain their native cultural values and teach them to their children all whilst their children start to learn the american culture. As asian american children acculturate into american society at a faster rate as their parents, they (the children) become burdened by taking the conflicting norms of their parents native culture. (Yang)

A current cultural conflict taking place in America today is religious. Many Americans discriminate against the Islamic faith and there have been countless acts of mistreatment of Muslims in the work place, at school, in public, and in the media. Negative feelings and acts toward Muslims have become so prevalent that in 1991 the Runnymede Trust Report coined a term for it. The report defined the “unfounded hostility toward Muslims, and therefore fear or dislike of all or most Muslims” as “Islamophobia” (Defining “Islamophobia”). There has always been some religious cultural conflict with Muslims in the United States, but since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, conflict has escalated significantly.

"Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are nuisance at best and often a disaster." - Dr. Geert Hofstede

Cultural relativism is one of the core concepts of anthropology. Are there any limits to this concept? If so, what are they? Is there a place in anthropology for the idea of universal human rights?