Definitions
A system of learned, shared, unifying, and interrelated beliefs, values and assumptions.
What is culture?
The meaning of nonverbal communication is universal.
What is False?
Name 3 ways a group can learn its culture.
What are (at home, at school, from religious institutions, at work, and through experience)?
The school mascot.
What is the Red Devil?
The number in Japan that is avoided when giving gifts or doing business - it is considered unlucky.
What is the number 4? (It is the same word as the word for death)
The idea that you carry your beliefs, values, and assumptions with you at all times.
What is Cultural Baggage?
Based on the movie, Hitch, the percentage of communication that is nonverbal.
What is 90%? (body language - 60%, tone - 30%, actual words - 10%)
Although people dress differently in various parts of the world, they dress similarly when conducting international business.
What is True?
The school district MCST is part of.
What is the Morris County Vocational School District?
This common, involuntary act, is considered rude in South Korea.
What is sneezing?
A subset of a larger culture.
What is a subculture?
Other than shaking hands, another common way to greet people in a business setting when conducting International Business.
What is bowing?
Name 3 countries where the family ties to business are strong.
What are (Mexico, most countries in South America, most of Asia, northern Africa and the Middle East)?
This academy is located at Morris Hills High School.
What is Math, Science and Engineering (MSE)?
The name of the fictional country we "visited" for the simulation in class.
What is "Sharahad"?
A means of dividing the members of a cultural group into various levels.
What is a class system? (will also accept caste system)
Name a country where you show respect by looking away from the eyes of the speaker.
What is South Korea? (also will accept Japan)
The employees in the United States have little geographic attachment.
What is True?
The address of MCST.
What is 400 E Main Street, Denville, NJ 07834?
The language most widely used for International Business and why?
What is English?
-it is used in almost every country around the world
-it has a large number of business-related words
- it can be concise and precise
A word that describes how direct or indirect communication is.
What is contexting?
Name 4 common methods of nonverbal communication.
What are (body language, appearance, tone, eye contact, touching, personal space, color, numbers, emblems, and smells).
This culture is a high-context culture.
What is Japan? (Will also accept Saudi Arabia)
The principal of MCST.
Who is Miss Jackson?
The name of the concept of minimizing personal embarrassment (which is directly related to contexting).
What is face-saving?