Culture Essays

In society there are four building blocks of intercultural communication. They are culture, communication, context, and power. Culture can be viewed as patterns of learned beliefs that are shared through generations. It is often considered to be the main concept in intercultural communication, and how we think about culture affects …

In the book “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell, the central theory that Gladwell presents is that often the decisions and observations made in only a split-second, in the blink of the eye, are better than decisions which are made after extensive thought. To present and justify this idea Gladwell describes the …

Marriages can be very tough to maintain. They require a variety of skills. Looking at marriages in different cultures, we can see very different points of view towards marriage. We all know the American culture and how we view marriage. The article “Why Marriages Fail” by Anne Roiphe presents the …

Keith Gilyard in his book Voices of the Self states a position about pluralism in education. Giving his own experience as well as others within the educational system as an example, Gilyard demonstrates what can happen if schools only acknowledge, accept, and represent the culture of the majority. Gilyard, as …

In the film “Trinkets and Beads”, the director Christopher Walker exposed the life of two tribes which reside in Ecuador. Many different traditions were discussed that are a great part of the Huaorani and Cofan tribes. Oil companies such as Texaco and Shell began to use the Huaorani territory to …

Corporate culture is defined as: “the moral, social, and behavioral norms of an organization based on the beliefs, attitudes, and priorities of its members.” Every organization has its own unique culture or value set; however, most organizations do not consciously try to create a certain culture. The culture of the …

Towards the end of the 17th century, Russia began undergoing dramatic, yet selective, internal changes. Peter the Great led the first westernization of Russia in history, permanently changing Russia and providing a model from which westernization attempts elsewhere were based on. Westernization was used by Peter and his successors to …

The management of workers and engineers at Haier may be characterized as the management of “a carrot and a whip.” We may see some similarity between Haier’s management of workers and Taylor’s scientific management in the early days of capitalism in USA. Taylor’s scientific management encountered severe opposition of laborers …

I attended the art museum at the Getty Center built on the mountain sides of north Los Angeles. While attending the Getty I chose to photograph the ‘Madonna and Child’ along with ‘Flowers Still Life’ and my textbook object was the Galatea. My first museum object the Madonna and Child …

Human Resource Management is one of crucial internal factors. If Lufthansa wants to perform in a global way successfully, they have, firstly, to alter their HR strategy along with different cultures or retain some of their own culture and history. In this case, HRM systems in Lufthansa will be illustrated …