GMS 724 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: French Market

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Muslims can neither shop nor work: sometimes the local society regards foreigners and domestic citizens differently, when staying overnight in jeddah, western female flight attendants can wear types of clothing publicly that local women cannot. In other instances, local citizens may actually feel their cultures are being mocked when foreigners bend over backward to make adjustments such as dressing in local traditional garb. Degree of cultural differences: obviously, some countries are much like other countries, usually because they share many characteristics such as language, religion, geographic location, ethnicity, and level of economic development. It they become too confident about the fit between their own and another nation, they may well overlook important subtleties: women"s roles and behaviours, for example, differ substantially from one. Arab country to another even though the countries overall are culturally similar. Japan than in france, even though france is culturally closer to the united.