in today’s world, every facet of life is marked by cultural differences

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In today’s world, every facet of life is marked by cultural differences.

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Page 1: In today’s world, every facet of life is marked by cultural differences

In today’s world, every facet of life is marked by cultural

differences.

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Work

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School

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Family

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Very few nations, groups, or cultures can remain autonomous. This is so because if you touch one part of the world and you touch them all.

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• 202 nations in world and everyone of them has someone living in the US

• Houston has 2 radio stations in Chinese and 1 newspaper.

• Nearly 65% of the people of Miami were born outside the US.

• More than 32 million people in US speak a language other than English in their home.

• Asian Americans make up 55% of first year students at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Culture is:A learned set of shared perceptions about attitudes, beliefs, values, and norms which affect the behaviors of a relatively large group of people.

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• NORMS: shared rules or guidelines that prescribe the behavior appropriate in a given situation.

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NORMS

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• BELIEFS: ways in which we structure reality to accept something as either true or false.

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BELIEFS

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• ATTITUDES: Learned predispositions to respond favorably or unfavorably toward something. Back

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• VALUES: Enduring concepts of good and bad, right and wrong.

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