cultural vocabulary
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- reverse culture shock
- shock when returning to home country because they have learned to accept what they have encountered abroad.
- Hierarchy of needs
- a well-known motivation theory, which is shown schematically,people try to fulfill lower order needs sufficiently before moving on the higher ones.
- geocentrism
- operations based on an informed knowledge of both home and host country needs, capabilities, and constraints.
- nationalism
- the ways in which people cooperate, attempt to solve problems, and are motivated, remain the same
- polycentrism
- organizational control that is decentralized; can mean being overwhelmed by differences between many operating environments.
- normativism
- there are universal standards of behaviour that should be upheld - nonintervention would be unethical.
- cultural shock
- General trauma experienced in a new or different culture from learning new cultural expectations - old ones no longer work or fit.
- relativism
- ethical truths are relative to the groups holding them - thus intervention would be unethical
- globalization
- contact across cultures resulting in similar approaches to solving problems, dress, cooperation.
- ethnocentrism
- the belief that one's group is superior to others.