Exercise #5

Cultural Dimension	Character Todd, Puro, Aisha or other	Outsourced Scene or Circumstance
Communication- direct/indirect	Todd and his manager	Direct communication ( when the manager was talking with Todd to  convince him to go to India)
Planning – People / time	Todd and his manager	Time( The manager gives Todd specific time to finish his work)
Decision-making: rules / relations	Todd and his manager	Rules ( The manager force Todd to go to india)
Context – Informal / formal	Todd and his manager	Informal ( Todd calls his manager by his name)

3. When he gets on the train, he cannot find an empty seat. How is this problem
solved for him? How might this be a cultural solution?

There is a boy was sitting in the train and he let Todd sit and the boy sit on Todd leg. It might be a cultural solution because in the Indian culture they let the old people sit.

4. As any exchange student, he has a lot of experiences trying new food. His first
encounter is with an iced drink. What happens?

He buy the iced drink and he feels ill after eating it.

7. Todd wants to check in to a hotel. But Puro insists he comes to a boarding house.
What is the reason he gives Todd?

 Because the place of the hotel is very lonely.

8. As soon as they meet, Aunti Ji starts asking very intimate questions that
Americans who have just met would never ask. What kind of things does she ask?

 She asked him many question and it was personal questions.

Exercise #4

The culture and the 12 Dimensions influence on three things the first one is the life choices and the second is the thinking and third is sense of group / accountability. I will write about the Amish model. Firstly how the Amish model influence on the life choices? In the Amish model they give the people some choices to choose one of it they don’t give them all the choices. Secondly about the Amish people they are very simple people and they are peaceful people. The Amish people don’t use the guns and they hate killing others. Thirdly is that the Amish people sense of group and they don’t like to live alone. The Amish people also accountable as a group not individual. In my experience I know that the Amish don’t use the cars and prefer to use the horses and they use direct communication.

How the Arabic culture influence our choices?

The Arabic culture influence in our choices in many things. For example I can’t work in everywhere because there is some places that shame to work on it such as a company that sell alcohol.