The typical American will attribute his or her personal successes
internally
Americans have a culture individualist from the child
they take their own elections. I believe that this education received has a big
impact that when they achieve success, it attributes internally. In this
situation will be challenging that they recognize the success giving the merit
to someone else. If the most important for them were the schedules and their
own life before that the relationships of the family and friends. Speaking in
this way also I realize that have the sense that when they fail they search for
someone to attribute externally.
Bias in Attribution
They are a misunderstanding of our observation of the
behavior of our society. The negative expressions don't ever reflect
attributional internally.
The movies have actors, who interpret different drafts.
The spectators believe that their attribution externally is also their
attribution internally of them, being an Actor Observer. It doesn't
mean that they have necessary this behavior out of their work.
Augmenting to blame victim making his/her guilty totally
is easy when who blames don't is the victim. If someone suffers a stole, to say
that he/she is responsible totally for his/her less care makes us attribution
internally letting the attributional externally, having a defense
attribution.
The feeling of improvement excite us, to recognize
attribution internally, but when our visitor is the failure don't want to
accept our mistakes to attribute externally to situational errors. The process
to recognize our mistakes to attribute internally our responsibility to make
changes that can be favorable despite situational errors, helping us to let
a self-serving.
People make
attribution in order to understand their experiences
Questioning us why does this happen to me. can come when
living a singular experience either good or bad. The answer will have many in
common with the attributions either internally or externally of the people
around us.
Stable Attribution can make us that our life is
predestinated. Whose have success ever will have it and who have failure ever
will have a failure. I believe in success after many failures. Don't exist the
predestination
"to the Germans, personal space is sacred. In WWII, German POWs took materials and made their own separate living compartments within the stockades. Germans insist on privacy of their yards and houses. In Berlin, after the war, when Germans were required by the American occupiers to share their kitchens and bathrooms, the Germans were killing each other due to the stress of having their space invaded. The order had to be rescinded."
Personal space can just be really, really huge
Personal Spaces can change across cultures taking more importance to some than others, having more tolerance, showing different perspectives about it.
It's amazing that these cultural paradigms could even be responsible for wars, either directly or indirectly.
The misunderstandings about Personal Space can cause war knowing that can it result in a sign of rudeness and misunderstanding.
If the boss of the house asks a visitor to be seated and the person innocently sits in the wrong chair, the boss can become agitated about this invasion of his territory and be put on the defensive. A simple question such as, 'Which chair is yours?' can avoid the negative results of making such a territorial error.
This question helps us to be aware of appropriate behavior. If the boss doesn't make this question, the visitor can make it. The questions are ways to understand the perspective of another who is around us.
when you're in other countries, again, watch how they do things.
This advice given for brother Ivers can help us to use our observation to try to understand the behavior of Personal Space. Observation became an important resource to know and to identify the appropriate way to understand it.
We all have an invisible, protective bubble around us
The lack of knowledge about Personal Space can cause disagreeable experiences. It is easy to take our-self perspective about that and offended us. It is difficult to let this perspective and to ask Why did that? hearing trying to understand the behavior did is necessary.
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In the 1950s, the director of the Zurich Zoo, Heini Hediger, saw the evolutionary roots of this behavior in his careful studies of animals
So personal territory can expand or contract depending on the local circumstances.
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The consequences of high-density living and overcrowding were seen in a study of the deer population on James Island, an island about a mile (2 kilometers) off the coast of Maryland in Chesapeake Bay in the United States.
investigation showed that the deer had died as a result of overactive adrenal glands, resulting from the stress caused by the degradation of each deer's personal territory as the population increased.
High-density living can challenge our Personal Space lift up the stress show us the news perspective of adaptation.
that changing one's political party might be considered an act of disloyalty. It would be a betrayal to the group,
Collectivism
The Disloyalty can have more importance to Political Parties. They are a group with believes and goals in common. They trying to be unit in those that they want to achieve for benefit of their own country. Changing one's Political Party can cause a lack of respect for your personal compromise with the Party.
Individualism
The members of one party to search for the feeling of the unit. If they have misunderstandings, they try to resolve them, notwithstanding there are events that can cause the changing one's Political Party. Thinking that the actions of a party going in opposition to their principles and goals invite to question if Is necessary to follow inside of a Party?
This happened in the 1980s-Japan.
There was a high school baseball team in Japan. Baseball is big in Japan. And they won a championship. They won some sort of championship. And they were out celebrating, and they ended up drinking.
In the end, some of the baseball players got in this car and drove drunk. The driver was drunk. Well, they had an automobile accident.
Every one of those high school baseball players, even the ones who were not driving, only one was driving, of course. Every one of the players in that car lost his license for life.
Collectivism
A group oriented society, again, they had a responsibility for everyone.
In a group oriented society, they might have a little less tolerance for things that could hurt other members of the group big time.
Japan is a country that to have this culture. They have less tolerance and more disposition to share the guilt in the group.
Individualism
In an individualistic oriented society they'd say, "Boy just got a little drunk. He isn’t going to do that no more. He just funning around. That's what he doing. Having fun."
In an individualistic oriented society, they'll have tolerance for individual mistakes that may cause tragedy for the group and just hope it doesn't happen again.
Taking responsibility for our actions, thinking about how they can tp impact our society can become the way to work with different cultures.
The Myth of Chinese Super Schools
Yong Zhao’s Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World.
But, he says, it has the worst education system in the world because those test scores are purchased by sacrificing creativity, divergent thinking, originality, and individualism
His book is a timely warning that we should not seek to emulate Shanghai, whose scores reflect a Confucian tradition of rote learning that is thousands of years old.
A system called keju lasted for thirteen hundred years, until 1905, when it was abolished by the emperor of the Qing dynasty. This system maintained Chinese civilization by requiring knowledge of the Confucian classics, based on memorization and writing about current affairs.
Zhao quotes Zheng Yefu, a professor at Peking University and the author of a popular book in 2013 titled The Pathology of Chinese Education, who wrote:
No one, after 12 years of Chinese education, has any chance to receive a Nobel prize, even if he or she went to Harvard, Yale, Oxford or Cambridge for college…. Out of the one billion people who have been educated in Mainland China since 1949, there has been no Nobel prize winner….
This forcefully testifies [to] the power of education in destroying creativity on behalf of the [Chinese] society.
Chinese students regularly win any competition that depends on test performance. Where they fall short is creativity, originality, divergence from authority. The admirers of Chinese test scores never point out that what makes it the “best” education system is also what makes it the worst education system
China is accustomed to hierarchy and ranking, and the education system delivers both. As the only path to success, students are ranked according to their performance, and very few will win the race.
Schools exist to prepare for the tests
“no new content is taught…. A large proportion of publications for children in China are practice test papers.”
Parents pay for a year’s living expenses in addition to tuition.
The workload is three times what it is in the typical Chinese school.
To cultivate new talents, we need an education that enhances individual strengths, follows children’s passions, and fosters their social- emotional development.
Zhao envisions schools where students produce books, videos, and art, where they are encouraged to explore and experiment. He imagines ways of teaching by which the individual strengths of every student are developed, not under pressure, but by their intrinsic motivation.
The article presented shows us to China being a society oriented to collectivism. This orientation reduces creativity and originally of students, whose experiment the lack of freedom in their opinions and the searching for a new knowledge.
On this scale, we realize that the
emotions cause misunderstood making us feel negative feelings toward who has a
different way to show their emotions.
The professor talks to us about the
public showing of emotion. He gives an example based on a real bloody operation
where who was from ethnic groups show them their emotions, while those who were
from Asia did not show them. It takes place when students were in a group. I
was amazed at the auto control of the Asians to avoid the emotions. It is
difficult to understand these reactions. In my case, I will show them.
This example helps me to know that
there are different expressed emotions when we are in public but these don’t
pretend to make us believe that there are people without emotions because, in a
private place, the emotions of us are very similar.
Cultural misinterpretation and how
easy it is to do.
The professor gives an example of
him studying languages and changing roles with a female student taking a draft
of a friend advising her that it is better to choose the Spanish than the
French. I realize that he was talking about expressing weird emotions. If
before you don’t see them, you can think in a negative way. It is challenging
to not feel us weird when we see stranger emotions that we do not know them.
They were passed down
subconsciously, through the culture.
We grew to learn and manifest
emotions around us earning experiences. These form our sense and our reactions.
Sometimes subconsciously the gestures gain to the logic expressing emotions
without we realize them.
Latin-Americans consider
interpersonal encounters to be sacred, special.
I am a Latin-American. I don’t want
to hurt the feelings of another. The schedule is important but when I have to
decide between my plans and to waste time with friends and family, I choose my
relations because I think that are opportunities that will be difficult to have
once again. The relationships are amazing and funny. For me will quite the
relations and to approve in the schedule will be a point-white in the middle of
a sea of points black.
when Europeans would ask for
directions, and a Moroccan could tell them they don't know where it is, but
they will still talk to them forever, and Europeans get really ticked about
that.
These experiences are very used to
know people. I believe that a can to feel surprised how the people to give a
know their own culture. It can take like if it was the last opportunity to make
friends or to know other cultures. In my country is common to give more
attention to a traveler from America or Europe. The persons are admiring to see
them because they have different characteristics in their height, hair color,
etc.
They will always say yes. Even if
they know it won't be done. if that happens, don't be offended by it. They are
probably trying to be nice.
We sometimes are thinking that all
have the same thoughts that us. The culture has a power overwhelming in the
persons. People trying to be nice because they don’t know another way to
understand another. They would be teaching them, but even in these
circumstances, they can still with their paradigms.
when a Japanese person receives
praise, about himself or herself or about their children or whatever, they will
very often say negative things about themselves. It is a way of showing
humility
I did not know how to answer at the
praise. I will be that truth or that is a joke. The sarcasm would be in it.
Friends or members of the family can give praise although this will be more a
figure way out that a reality.
"The nail that sticks out gets
hammered down."
How people with splendid skills
follow the same way as others because they were grasping at the same idea? I
think that life is a competence where everyone received skills to become the
best version of one same. There is not sensed to follow the same patron because
all make it.
In Japan, they communicate
indirectly.
I will be lost in darkness if I had
communication in this way. Will be it necessary to express simple things? It
would take a long time to arrive at the correct meaning if have to speak in the
same language as them.
Public facial expressions can vary
immensely
The expressions can be weird even
when you know their meaning. There is no way to understand them in their total.
I think in my own expressions of my culture and I realize that there isn’t a
way to say why we do it. They will adhere to be part of your life while you
live inside of your culture.
white people from the Northeast,
like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, they are very intense in their
communication style. African-Americans, in most places in the United States,
are very intense in their communication styles.
The average white person in the
United States pronounces their—has longer vowels, pronounces their vowels
longer than black people. Black people have shorter vowels when they pronounce
their vowels, and white people interpret that as more intense.
American communication style
The white people generally look
away when they're talking, and they look at the person when they’re listening;
generally speaking.
The African-Americans tend to look
at the person more when they are talking to the person and they tend to look
away more when they are listening, according to Hall.
The styles are very marked in
between them. One of them seems easier to understand and assimilate it than another.
If you exercise justice will be challenging because all have the right to be
tried humanly without discrimination between us being emphatic in our deals.
The schedule is like the holy scriptures for monochronic people.
Latin Americans are generally very
sensitive about possibly hurting feelings
I realize that time is sacred in the
USA. It is difficult for me because I grow thinking that the most important was
the person around me. If someone arrives late, I imagine that he o she
has justification for that. I try to arrive on time for my meetings, having hope to
receive the same tread.
“As anyone who has had experience with our bureaucracies knows, schedules and procedures take on a life all their own without reference to either logic or human needs.”
What are the consequences? “that is at least partially responsible for the reputation of American business being cut off from human beings and unwilling to recognize the importance of employee morale."
the heyday of American business
Employees are just means to an end, not like members of the family
“Morale may
well be the deciding factor in whether a given company makes a profit or
not.”
"In fact, outsiders traveling
or residing in Latin America or Mediterranean countries residing in Latin
America or Mediterranean countries find the bureaucracies unusually cumbersome
and unresponsive."
The reputation of American business
needs to consider the morale of employees. We live in a society where is more
accessible become to be an employee than a man business. In my country, the
opportunities to be a man business is complicated. It includes a large process with a list extensive of
requisites that seem a delay that a benefit to the enterprises.
The bypass is a reality if you have connections that help you to accelerate to
be a man business, in other ways, acquaintances.
you're not going to get anything
done unless you have friends to help make things happen
It's very hard to get things done
without connections
When I was applying for a job once,
I sent out 77 resumes. Got no hits at all. And then one time, I ran into this guy
at church who said he knew of a job, and I got it. It was interesting.
An amazing network that really helps us in
life in so many ways
Walking for the streets of my
country, I need to apply for a job. I have connections but I want to make that
without help. The days following their course and I didn't found anything.
After that, I meet with my acquaintance and boom I got it. Why are enterprises searching for new employment if the job will be it occupied by some acquaintance or friend of those who already work?
People waste your time sending
resumes, curriculums vitae with the hope of getting a Job but coming another and with
a call toward an acquaintance or a friend got it. It seems magic.
I think that should be the same way
to get a job. This situation also affects our lives in the shopping, deliveries at home, and the sending by anyway.
We living in a bombed society with paradigms that distort
the importance of Education. Students who show many efforts to learn are stain
by those that with their actions seem to domain the idea that education is
boring.
professors need to do
everything they can to make the material interesting and engaging and
professors need to have an interesting delivery of the material.
These are requisites to make a delivery adequate.
Students and Professors need to build an emotional relationship because we tend
to forget the lessons. It is natural that be easy to remember situations where
the emotions entice the experience.
"We shall know
each other or we shall exterminate each other." Carlos Fuentes
the two people can see
the very same event and if they are from different cultures they can interpret
it very differently.
We are challenges to know us in special when we from
different cultures. If we don't break the ice trying to understand the
paradigms of others will be easy to think that we don't are welcome.
Paradigms, they will
veil your eyes from seeing certain things or they will open your eyes to see
things that other people from other cultures never would see
you need to challenge
some of your paradigms, for example, and think of things you never thought
before
Serving on the Mission I have a companion
that one time tells me: You don't should waste a long time brush your teeth
because the flour cream only affects one minute. It let me thinking in my
action and I start to question me if waste a long time brushing my teeth was
wrong. After this experience, I had more carefully in the time wasted to brush
my teeth.
Weight and Beauty - Delali Bright: Cultural Clashes in
Defining Beauty
How often do we buy
into a trend, an opinion, a perception, or accepted views of value, just for no
other reason than to fit in?
In this video, we can see that
the same behavior in various persons has a big influence on one person with
different behavior. I think that sometimes the influence can be powerful.In this case, will be better supported by persons
that searching influences to allow you to have the liberty of thinking.
Cultural Differences
National Geographic
Persons from Africa are challenging in their paradigms.
The impact was big because they visited a culture completely different where
the food, the education and make friends had other paradigms. It is difficult
to know what is the origin of behavior different toward people of a different
color.
We can adapt our behavior and be empathic with persons of
a different cultures. I like the scripture from the book of 1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his
countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for
the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but
the Lord looketh on the heart.
We Should look through the hearth of another give them
opportunities to know us treating them as we would like them to treat us.
