cultural region

Examples of cultural region in the following topics:

• Nubia and Ancient Culture

  • Nubia was a region along the Nile River.
  • It was culturally close to ancient Egypt, and the two regions had periods of both peace and war.
  • This name gradually began to reference people, not the region.
  • In fact, they were seen, and saw themselves, as culturally Egyptian.
  • Nubians appear to have been assimilated into Egyptian culture.

• Considering Cultural and Interpersonal Differences

  • The following figure highlights the three building blocks of one intercultural approach: cross-cultural competence, language proficiency, and regional expertise.
  • The blue and yellow circles in the diagram highlight the importance of understanding the local language and visiting regions to achieve immersion in a particular cultural mentality.
  • Still, cross-cultural competence is a relatively vague concept.
  • Cultural identity – Coming to terms with another culture requires cultural self-awareness, which creates a critical benchmark.
  • This chart illustrates the three factors that constitute an effectively intercultural understanding for management: Regional Expertise, Language Proficiency, and Cross-Cultural Competence

• Culture and Ethics

  • Culture describes a collective way of life, or way of doing things.
  • Cultures vary over time periods, between countries and geographic regions, and among groups and organizations.
  • Cultural norms are the shared, sanctioned, and integrated systems of beliefs and practices that are passed down through generations and characterize a cultural group.
  • This is where culture intersects with ethics.
  • Cultural relativism is also considered more tolerant than universalism because, if there is no basis for making moral judgments between cultures, then cultures have to be tolerant of each other.

• How to Assess Culture

  • Outlining the way culture is assessed, the pros and cons of multiculturalism and how culture is transmitted is central to management.
  • Cultural assessment begins with awareness.
  • Perceiving the varying different elements of culture and cultural differentiation, and identifying the way in which these differences impact our interactions allows for a comprehensive approach at integrating different cultures.
  • The graphs in demonstrate how these cultural understandings can be coupled with language skills and an understanding of the region to create a balanced approach to assessing culture.
  • Cultural transmission, or cultural learning, is the tendency of a society or culture to pass on new information and generate new norms.

• Culture

  • Cultural differences between listeners and speakers can create barriers to effective communication.
  • When listening to a speaker who comes from a different cultural background, work to set aside any preexisting ideas about that culture and focus on best understanding the speaker's specific message.
  • What defines culture?
  • Culture guides language use, appropriate forms of dress, and views of the world.
  • In a broad sense, we all grow up immersed in various cultures all at once—family, country, region, sexual orientation, religion, socioeconomic class, etc.

• The Impact of Culture on Business Operations

  • Understanding culture and the influence that it exercises on organizations, has motivated a wide variety of studies and perspectives working to define and examine what constitutes 'organizational culture'.
  • The second is that national and regional cultural groupings affect behavior, which he organized into five dimensions: Power Distance, Individualism, Uncertainty, Masculinity, and Long-term Orientation.
  • Denison - Similar to Hofsede, Denison studied organizational culture in pursuit of idenitfying critical dimensions affecting internal culture.
  • Cross-cultural management requires cultural intelligence (sometimes referred to as 'CQ') along with an open-minded and empathetic mindset.
  • Observing the cultural tendencies of an organization and finding ways to accommodate them, and their interaction with other cultural predispositions, requires experience, motivation and self-awareness (of one's own cultural predispositions).

• Culture and Society

  • Culture is what differentiates one group or society from the next; different societies have different cultures.
  • These material and nonmaterial aspects of culture can vary subtly from region to region.
  • As people travel farther afield, moving from different regions to entirely different parts of the world, certain material and nonmaterial aspects of culture become dramatically unfamiliar.
  • For instance, the high culture of elites is now contrasted with popular or pop culture.
  • In this sense, high culture no longer refers to the idea of being "cultured," as all people have culture.

• Cultural Intelligence

  • The components of cultural intelligence, from a general perspective, can be described in terms of linguistics, culture (religion, holidays, social norms, etc.), and geography (or ethnicity).
  • As a result, individuals interested in developing their cultural quotient (CQ) are tasked with studying each of these facets of cultural intelligence in order to accurately recognize the beliefs, values, and behaviors of the culture in which they are immersed.
  • An interesting perspective on cultural intelligence is well represented in the intercultural-competence diagram, which highlights the way that each segment of cultural knowledge can create synergy when applied to the whole of cultural intelligence, where overlapping generates the highest potential CQ.
  • Hofstede's theory of cultural dimensions is particularly interesting, as it allows for a direct quantification of specific cultural values in order to measure and benchmark cultural norms in a relative and meaningful way.
  • This diagram illustrates the three factors that constitute an effectively intercultural understanding for management: Regional Expertise, Language Proficiency, and Cross-Cultural Competence.

• Doing business across cultures

  • Installing cultural diversity training programs can help accomplish this by defining what cultural intelligence is, teaching employees to accept and work effectively with others from different cultural backgrounds, and taking advantage of advice from those who have cross-cultural experience.
  • Geert Hofstede, a leading expert in cultural values classification, developed a model of five dimensions of natural culture that help to explain basic value differences in culture.
  • These dimensions are measured on a scale from 0 to 100, include 75 countries or regions, and scores are determined by "high" or "low" rankings within each category.
  • Cultural values determine the way people think and behave.
  • First, the concept of culture is defined, second, the various components of culture are identified, and third, vivid examples of cultural differences are provided.

• Cultural Psychology

  • Cultural psychology seeks to understand how forces of society and culture influence individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
  • These include forces such as attitudes, child-rearing practices, discrimination and prejudice, ethnic and racial identity, gender roles and norms, family and kinship structures, power dynamics, regional differences, religious beliefs and practices, rituals, and taboos.
  • Cultural psychology is the study of how psychological and behavioral tendencies are rooted and embedded within culture.
  • The main tenet of cultural psychology is that mind and culture are inseparable and mutually constitutive, meaning that people are shaped by their culture and their culture is also shaped by them.
  • Cultural psychology is often confused with cross-cultural psychology; however, it is distinct in that cross-cultural psychologists generally use culture as a means of testing the universality of psychological processes, rather than determining how local cultural practices shape psychological processes.