Pei-Wen Lee identified 7 strategies to develop a strong relational identity within intercultural friendships in the academic journal article, “Bridging Cultures: Understanding the construction of relational identity in intercultural friendship.” The stronger the relational identity, the stronger the intercultural friendship can be. For those of you who are wondering what Relational Identity is, the concept [...]
The ability to develop relationships and to forge genuine friendships can be instrumental to professional and personal success. People like to do business or hang out with people they like. This general rule seems to be universal across all cultures, possibly even more so than here in the states. While most people may think the [...]
Rolf Potts, in his book Vagabonding, advises one big tip to those who travel and interact across different cultures: Learn to laugh at yourself.
Time affects everything; lifestyle, work, and society. It dictates our goals, our relationships, business, sports, traffic, everthing. We all have the same amount of time in a day, but how we spend and perceive that time varies dramatically across cultures. Every national culture can be divided into two general concepts of time; Monochronic time (M-time) [...]
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Saving face – we all do it. Basically, its maintaining a good, positive self image. Losing face is bad and embarrassing….its when your self, your ego, gets attacked, embarrassed, or looked down upon. You seem to be inferior to others when you lose face. Its a universal communication phenomenon that’s evident in every culture. Now [...]
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