Cross Cultural Management

With developing of social, globalization has many changed from western to eastern country as culture, thinking and life to balance integration among continents in the world. However, they still have some differences situation about culture between west and east. People can realize that how difference the people look like, thinking, behavior, language and people in each continent. From the past until now, people always try to study and understanding the specific culture all around the world such as west and east thinking, individuals and collectivism culture. By this way, the awareness about culture difference can help people to expanding the knowledge and adaptive with the new environment.
As mention about empirical on cross culture management topic, I will tell my own experience that can a good sample to know about culture. I chose Singapore as a destination for my education. I have some experiences about difference language and culture that make me feel interested in the new environment. Firstly, the communication part is that really important. When I was studying English to prepare for oversea, I studied in RMIT Vietnam. My teacher taught Australian English and I also pronounced like Australian when I talked with other people. The Australian speak very strong and always abbreviated words then add “o” or “ie” at the back like “bring your cossie to the barbie this Arvo”. However, I really like to watch American movies because I’m a fan of Angelia Jolie. The voice of American is so sweet and the action when they talk really professional with me. That’s a reason I recognized those country speaking the same language but they have a different accent when communication. As Singapore, many Singaporeans use Singlish to communicate. Singlish is a mix of English with other languages mixed into the English, sometimes phrases can end with funny terms like 'lah', 'leh', mah'. Chinese commonly use their own dialects to communicate, and sometimes,