Most of the courses that I took in the last semester were brilliant. Sagiv’s Cultures and Organizations was an in depth analysis into the complications of cross-cultural psychology, Kogan’s Urban Society in Contemporary China - Changes was a unique journey through modern China, Pinnes’ China 1917-1978 was an extraordinary overview of the most amazing [...]
What makes “the East” different from “the West” and how? how similar and closely related are national cultures? Is there a way to measure cultural differences and investigate how cultures “behave” and interact?
In a previous post "National Cultures : Differences and similarities between East and West" I described the leading theory for national cultures suggested [...]
In Cross Cultural Psychology there are many sample cases for cross-cultural difficulties and misunderstandings, some of which have become classics. Last week I participated in Dr. Sagiv’s simulation about the some of those classics testing our cross-cultural knowledge and openness.
First, we were separated into two groups, each group with its own different ‘culture’ for performing a [...]
