Trevisha Dixon World Geography Cultural Writing 2 3o October 2012 The Arab Culture Have you ever found yourself asking questions about another culture? I have been reading articles about the Arab culture. The articles that I have read‚ describes different types of races in the Arab culture. Now that you have more information about the different cultures you will begin to understand a whole lot more about the Arab people as a whole. Like other cultures‚” Arab’s have are a shared religion
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Spanish Cultural Dimensions. Through this report‚ based on the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions‚ we will try to clarify the main features of the Spanish culture. To get this target we will use a few proverbs or traditional expressions from Spain and relate them to Hofstede’s theory. This way we will be able to understand and know a little bit more about how is the Spanish culture and how it differentiates from other cultures. The first proverb we are going to use says: “La union hace la fuerza”
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Hofstede cultural dimensions 5 dimensions Power distance is defined as "the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organisations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally". Individualism pertains to societies in which the ties between individuals are loose: everyone is expected to look after himself or herself and his or her immediate family. Collectivism as its opposite pertains to societies in which people from birth onwards are integrated
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the field of cross-cultural communication. His books include: Riding the Waves of Culture‚ Seven Cultures of Capitalism‚ Building Cross-Cultural Competence‚ 21 Leaders for the 21st Century and Innovating in a Global Crisis . Trompenaars studied Economics at the VU University Amsterdam and later earned a Ph.D. from Wharton School‚ University of Pennsylvania‚ with a dissertation on differences in conceptions of organizational structure in various cultures. He experienced cultural differences firsthand
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The Advantages of the Mixed Gender among the Single Gender Universities in the United Arab Emirates Mohamed Khalid Mohamed American University of Sharjah The Advantages of the Mixed Gender among the Single Gender Universities in the United Arab Emirates Introduction Coeducation has been the subject of debate in many platforms in the UAE. While it is considered illegal in Saudi Arabian Schools and Universities‚ the trend is changing with the institution of programs geared to promoting mixed-gender
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Hofstede Cultural dimensions: India is a vast country known for its diversified culture and traditions. The unique characteristic of India is its “unity in diversity”. In India Relationships and feeling plays a larger role in decisions. Indians tend to take larger risks with a person whose intentions they trust. Thus‚ one’s credibility and trustworthiness are critical in negotiating a deal. Indians are ‘polychronic’ people‚ ie they tend to deal with more than one task at the same time. Indians
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Orientation – Past‚ Present‚ Future Basic Human Nature – Evil‚ Neutral/Mixed‚ Good Activity Orientation – Being‚ Contain/Control‚ Doing Relationships among People – Ind. Group‚ Hierarchical Space Orientation – Private‚ Mixed‚ Public Hofstede’s Dimensions of Cultural Values (1980‚ 2001) – work-related values Individualism / collectivism Low / High Power Distance Weak / Strong Uncertainty Avoidance Masculinity / Femininity (Mas – tough‚ value of success‚ money; Fem – tender‚ personal relationship‚ care)
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Cultural Diversity Muslims and Arabs Arab Americans and Muslim Americans are often confused as the same subordinate group but are in fact quite different. Many people do not realize that Muslims are considered a religious group and Arabs are an ethnic group. Muslim American and Arab American communities are among the most rapidly growing subordinate groups in the United States (Schaefer‚ 2006). Muslims and Arabs practice their own traditions and have their own beliefs. More than half of Arab
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Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions National cultures can be described according to the analysis of Geert Hofstede. These ideas were first based on a large research project into national culture differences across subsidiaries of a multinational corporation (IBM) in 64 countries. Subsequent studies by others covered students in 23 countries‚ elites in 19 countries‚ commercial airline pilots in 23 countries‚ up-market consumers in 15 countries‚ and civil service managers in 14 countries. Together
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Journal on Chemical Engineering & Technology Vol. 3 No. 3‚ April 2012 A Study of Water Quality Near to a Coral Reef Site in the Region of Dubai‚ United Arab Emirates Rami El Khatib‚ Adnan Falah‚ Golaleh Tavakoli‚ Christine D ’cruz and Jasmine Pereira Abstract — The water quality near to a coral reef site in Jebel Ali‚ Dubai‚ United Arab Emirates (UAE) was studied. Many Physico-Chemical parameters for water samples taken at two different depths (0.5 m and 1.0 m) parallel to a coral reef site
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