Read Chapter 18.4 in Business Communication for Success.
The key concepts in this reading are that all cultures reflect inequality, diversity, and divergent values, and our community interactions shape our perspectives. The text also cites early research that describes different cultural ‘orientations’ on dimensions like high to low context communication, individualism to collectivism, short to long term time sense, and levels of uncertainty tolerance, and power distance. What do you think about these cultural ‘orientations’ from your own cultural perspective?
Recommended: Do Exercises 2-5 at the end of Chapter 18.4, which invite you to continue exploring cultural values as they are expressed in film media. What other cultural ‘orientations’ do you notice in your film selections besides individualist and community-centred perspectives?
