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The Differences And Similarities Between My Culture And Usa

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Parameter Value = 1 Value = 5 Me USA
Time Focus Monochronic Polychronic 4 1
Time Orientation Past Future 3 5
Space Private Public 1 3
Power Equality Hierarchy 4 2
Structure Individualism Collectivism 4 1
Competition Co-operation Competitive 2 5
Communication Low-context High-context 5 1 Action Being Doing 1 4

1. The differences and similarities between my culture and USA’s culture:
Every nations and communities has its own cultures and they are different from each other, here are the differences in the parameters between my culture which is influenced by Vietnamese culture and the USA's culture.
 Differences in parameters:
In time focus parameter, Vietnamese have polychronic culture that opposite from the monochronic culture of American. As monochronic culture, American respect schedules and committed to schedules and deadlines, things are usually arranged in order so …show more content…

Since Vietnam is a high-context culture, Vietnamese like to take time to build relationship with their partners and dislike to openly speak out their real thought, instead, people prefer to use non-verbal signals such as eyes movements, head nods to reflect their thought and behaviors. If an individual is too direct, he or she will be considered as disrespect for other persons’ perceptivity and intelligence. On the other side, American is low-context culture which sense that American are direct and frankly, they do not afraid to spelling out what is on their mind verbally. So when the representatives corporate, if the Vietnamese representatives are indirect and do not transfer the message explicitly, the American might think that they are not honest or intend to hide something from the other party. And for Vietnamese, if the Americans are too direct and frankly, they assume that the other party does not have respect for

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