Cultural Orientation

Cultural Orientation After testing myself on culture orientation I found that assessment was for the most part accurate. For a couple of sections I had answered questions that had categorized me into two different orientations. For an example, I had chosen the letter choice B for question number one, which indicated a collectivist orientation, and then for question number two I had chosen letter choice A, which indicated a individualist orientation. In an individualist culture, a person is held responsible for themselves and/or their immediate family. In a collectivist culture, a person is held responsible for the whole group. The assessment had me characterized as both and I believe the assessment was correct. I feel as if my cultural orientation is a mixture of the two, both an individualist and collectivist culture. For questions three through four, I had been depicted as having a low-context focus. In low-text cultures, people place more prominence on the information that is clearly specified in verbal messages or, in official deals, in written form. Low-context cultures place less significance on personal relations; they are considered individualistic cultures. Based off questions five and six I am considered to have comfort with a low power distance, meaning power is more equally spread throughout the population. The remaining questions of the assessment placed me as having values of modesty, tenderness in women/men, and concern for quality of life. I am thought to accept and not fear uncertainty, and at the same time in some situations I avoid uncertainty and have anxiety towards not knowing what will happen next. I am also a mixture of having both a long and short-term orientation according to the test. But for the final questions my answers reflected me as having a high indulgence, meaning that my main focus is having fun and enjoying life. As I said in the introduction I believe this assessment was for the most part accurate, placing me in categories