BU205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Political Philosophy, Proxemics, Femininity
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Personal space: long customary distance in us, small in latin. India: are you allowed to eat with left or right hand: education. Identify the business and economic implications of differences in culture: power distance: accept hierarchies: low in the us/dk/sweden, high in india/indonesia/turkey. Us/australia/gb/dk, collectivism in india/indonesia/thailand: uncertainty avoidance: a society"s tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity: high japan/argentina/france/spain/turkey (everything has to be safe), low sweden/dk, masculinity vs. femininity: relationship between gender and work roles: dk/sweden/us is feminine, Japan/mexico/germany/gb is masculine: confucian dynamism (long-term orientation vs. short term orientation): describes societies" time horizon: short term = Restraint: the essence to which people try to control their desires and impulses: denmark: 70 = high, we want to enjoy life, and reach our goals, live our dreams. Indulgence stands for a society that allows relatively free gratification of basic and natural human drives related to enjoying life and having fun.
