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    or annoying? Two cultures can be completely different and diverse. Japanese and American culture are an example, the two cultures both do things quite differently. Most people don’t know much about other cultures out there, which is why I’m interested in going to japan. I would like to go to Japan to learn more about their culture and possibly build up my social skills. Going to Japan would make a good learning opportunity. Most people don’t know too much about other cultures because they’re used

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    Introduction- Around the world there are multiple different cultures not just American culture so to say that American culture is generalizable to other cultures is wrong because cultures around the world are all different however, culture is also shared and while culture is shared, there is not only one culture that everyone shares. Culture creates the behaviors of individuals understandable to other people in the group. Furthermore, generalization is how well the results can be applied to the

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    Introduction This report consists of the issues on whether it can or cannot be argued that culture shapes the way business is done in a country. The country that is focused in this report is America. It also discusses on the major distinguishing features of American culture and business culture in comparison to current Australian culture. The impact that culture has on business performance is also taken into consideration and how this affects the performance of the staff members and their work.

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    The influence of Latin culture is prominent in the American world today. Everything from the Latin language to the Roman law is visible in the culture that shapes the way we live our lives in the United States. You can see it by watching the Super Bowl game or even fulfilling your citizen duty of serving on a jury. The Latin language is prominent in the culture of the United States today. It is the root of many of the words spoken and used in your daily lives, especially in certain career fields

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    The culture that I best identify as is the American culture. The aspects of this culture that shaped my personality is the music, growing up listening to modernized genres of Rap hip-hop, pop, and soft rock music. Another aspect that shapes my personality is food I eat from my culture. Being an African-American, my cultural foods that I grew up eating was known as ‘soul food’, which included: cornbread, black eye peas, sweet potatoes, collard greens, and fried chicken. In addition, the banal foods

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    American culture is known as “melting pot”, because it has a wide range of diversity. Basically, it means that everyone contributed something in the American Culture. Western culture is still different from other cultures around the world. First example, American culture takes privacy really seriously. Talking to someone about personal information’s such as: marital status, age or income is plain intrusive. However, this is not the same in Chinese culture. Chinese culture does not have the same concept

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    an individual. For example, I am Mexican/American, I really enjoy these 2 cultures even though sometimes they can bring conflicts. Out of American and Mexican cultures, I also enjoy my Mexican culture. It really shows who I am as a person, words come out with more passion when you speak Spanish. The Mexican food is 10x better than American food. Mexican parties are better, you go out at 6pm and come back until the next day. In my Mexican culture we like to celebrate a lot. One of the celebrations

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    There are many different cultures in different places. But the 2 specific ones we will be comparing today is the Inuit and the American cultures. Most people would think there would be a certain culture in America because most of the people don’t really think about what culture we are but we actually do have a culture in some aspects of our lives. For example we the Americans speak many different languages we speak spanish, english, chinese just about everything we will take anyone regardless of

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    tasks, for them pursuing personal success is frowned upon (Miles, 2006). Whereas, in America, individuals are individualistic, people take care of their own selves and believe success is attained by their independent work, which is known as the “American dream” (Silver, 2002). Second, in Japan power distance--how power and authority is perceived--is visible through hierarchy, which represents the high power difference in the country. For instance, in Japan the most important aspect is respect for

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    Throughout history cultures have come and gone. Cultures from many distinct civilizations and empires were able to be conceived but yet most became utterly ruined. However certain societies and cultures were able to thrive for longer periods of times and outlast others. The more sophisticated a culture was, the greater the influence it had over smaller ones eventually merging together to establish a strong society; therefore creating a longer lasting culture. How do these cultures develop and “outperform”

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