BE CONCIOUS OF YOUR
CULTURE UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE IS SO DIFFERENT ARROUND THE WORLD
BEHAVIOR YOU THINK IS NORMAL, MAYBE IT IS NOT FOR
OTHER POEOPLE ARROUND THE WORLD
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPRINTS IN EVERY CULTURE, ALLOWS
THE CREATION OF DIFFERENT MARKETING STRATEGIES
SUITABLE FOR EACH COUNTRY
MAKE BUSINESS IN NEW WAYS
CREATING NEW IMPRINTS ON EVERY COUNTRY
EXAMPLE OF DIFFERENT CULTURE IS UBUNTU SOUTH AFRICA
A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others,
affirming of others, does not feel threatened that
others are able and good, for he or she has a proper
self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or
she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when
others are humiliated or diminished, when others are
tortured or oppressed.
NELSON MANDELA GIVES AN EXAMPLE: A traveler through a
country would stop at a village and he didn't have to ask for
food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food,
entertain him. That is one aspect of Ubuntu but it will have
various aspects.
CULTURAL CODES
ARE NOT UNIVERSAL
THEY ARE IMPRINT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
THEY MAKE PART OF THE,
REPTILIAN CORTEX AND LIMBIC
PARTS OF THE BRAIN
HOWEVER, WE CAN ONLY
PERCEIVE ABOUT 10%
IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND IT,
CULTURES WERE RELATED AS ICEBERGS
CULTURAL ICEBERG THEORY
CULTURES ARE DEFINED MORE BY
WHAT IS NOT OBSERVABLE
CULTURAL DIMENSIONS
CULTURES HAVE DEPENDANCY ON CONEXT
HIGH CONTEXT DEPENDENT
THERE MUST BE A CERTAIN CONTEXT
INVOLVED IN ORDER TO DELIVER THE
MESSAGE THEY WANT, HUGE
INFLUENCE IN BODY LANGAUAGE,
ENTONATION, HAVING ALWAYS A "SAVE
FACE"
EX. CHINA, COLOMBIA, BRAZIL
LOW CONTEXT DEPENDENT
VERY DIRECT PEOPLE, NO MATTER WHERE
THEY ARE, THEIR MESSAGE WILL BE DIRECT,
NO FACE VALUE, ALWAYS EXPLICIT. GO
STRAIGHT TO THE POINT
EX. BRITAIN, GERMANY, RUSSIA, NORWAY
CULTURES ACCORDING TO TIME
MONOCHRONIC
FOLLOW SCHEDULES, VERY
STRICT WITH TIME, NO
MULTITASKING, FOCUS ON
ONLY ONE THINK AT A TIME,
EX. JAPAN, GERMANY
POLCHRONIC
DO THINGS WHEN IT COMES, MULTITASKING,
INTERRUPUTIONS TO SCHEDULES ARE WELCOME
AND EASILY ADAPTION TO THEM, WORK, WE BASE
ON RELATIONSHIPS, RELY ON PEOPLE ARROUND
EX. MEXICO, BRAZIL
CULTURES ACCORDING TO GROUPS
INDIVIDUALISM
SEARCH INDIVIDUAL OBJECTIVES, SELF-RELIANCE,
NOT WILLING FOR SUPPORT, VERY INDEPENDENT
EX. POLAND, KOREA
COLECTIVISM
RELY ON PEOPLE, MAINLY GOAL IS TO FIT WITHIN
A GROUP, WHEN A PROBLEM COMES SUPPORT IS
IMPORTANT, INTERDEPENDENT.