Exercise #4

CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD MAKE DECISIONS

How does culture and the 12 dimensions influences:

1 – Life choices.

2 – Thinking.

3 – Sense of group \ accountability.

One Asian Model

 The 3 dimensions that I chose and were so clear in the Asian model are communication, expression and connecting. Each of the dimensions influence people’s life choices, thinking and sense of group in many ways.  Firstly, communication in Asia is indirect. You can’t communicate with your leader directly, you need to talk to the responsible of your group then he will talk to the leader. If a person talks directly to the leader he won’t listen to him, the leader will often tell the person to talk to the person who’s in charge of what he need or want.  Secondly, Asia known that it’s not based on self-expression. If a person express what he want, they will consider him odd and irregular. Asians are more likely to conceal their expressions, so they don’t demonstrating that they are less than a full person. Asian values is a term that was used to justify what power in Asia are doing to the people of Asia, they don’t accept reveal expressions.  Thirdly, there are exclusive connections in Asia. They make it difficult for strangers to cope with them. In America, there is a neighbourhood called Chinatown. That neighbourhood was established by the old Asians that moved to America in a long time ago. Chinatown is exclusive for Asians even though it’s in America. These dimensions affected people’s life choices, it make decisions slight and shallow. The government put the choices and limited their options in life, so a person cannot choose a thing that the government did not list. The thinking of Asians might become simple. People will not be able to think more than what is allowed to them. A person is nothing if he is not a part of something or group, the group he’s in is his first priority. Asian must think about what’s good for the whole group not himself only.  Finally, Here in the UAE, our culture limited women’s choices in many things. It limited her choices of what she can study and what she can’t, where to study\work, and limited their abilities. Women conceal their expressions most of the time, they can only reveal it in certain situations like occasions.