Comparative Analysis of Cultural Patterns: A Detailed Presentation

This presentation provides an overview of cultural patterns, defining culture and exploring its various dimensions. It discusses the importance of understanding cultural differences in building relationships, resolving conflicts, and enriching experiences. The presentation outlines five orientations of cultural patterns: activity, social relations, world, time, and self-orientation. It further explains how knowledge of these patterns can be applied to interactions with people from the United States, highlighting aspects such as focus on doing, direct communication, limited spiritual orientation, valuing time, and individualism. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of understanding cultural differences and using cultural patterns to facilitate effective interaction. Desklib provides this and many other solved assignments for students.

Culture pattern
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Define culture:
 Culture is the shared products of human group.
 The shared products are beliefs, values, norms, art, food
and language.
 Development of culture is done by humans.
 Culture is often transmitted.
 Culture can be transmitted consciously or unconsciously.
 Culture varies place to place (Sherif, 2017).

Culture pattern
 Culture a cluster of interrelated culture traits of some continuity.
 The combination of numerous culture complexes that are interrelated as
a whole.
 For example, various complexes such as football, soccer, swimming,
tennis and track. They are separate complexes however they can be
combined into an Athletic pattern(Kaur, 2015).

Group culture
 The culture of a group is defined by the values,
customs, traditions, preferred ways of carrying out
a business.
 Groups vary as per the behavior
 Groups follow a set of norms
 Groups are formed to achieve a specific task
specially a goal.
 A group is made to carry out the task following a

Why cultural patterns are effective?
 Cultural beliefs and values are
enrooted to every views and
ideologies.
 Strong part of people’s lives.
 Cultures are attached topeople’s
sentiments and emotions.
 It is extremely complicated and
complex however very prone to cause
damages. (Mesman, van Ijzendoorn &

Why other culture and cultural difference is important?
 It helps in building relationship
 It helps in understanding perspective of the
people from other culture.
 Helps in resolving conflicts
 Helps in enriching experiences
 Helps in sharing ideas and produce best ideas by
interactions (Hall, 2014)

Five orientation of culture pattern
 Activity orientation: doing, techniques
goals, problem solving
 Social relations orientation: relating to
others :equals, roles: achieved

Five orientation of culture pattern
 World orientation: Humans modify
nature and technically controlled
 Time-orientation: future oriented,
treat time as scarce resources
 Self-orientation: individualistic

How knowledge of cultural patterns can be applied to
interaction with people from united states
 Activity orientation: focus on doing rather than explaining or discussing
 Social relations orientation: like to be straight and to the point
 World orientation: no or less place for spiritual orientation

How knowledge of cultural patterns can be applied to
interaction with people from united states
 Time-orientation: monochromic, therefore
valuing time is important. The value of time is
determined by time-orientation.
 Self-orientation: individualistic who appreciate
their space and freedom. Self-orientation is
attached to individual’s way of seeing self.

Conclusion
 Culture are different in every place.
 Culture differences are essential for it helps in understating aspects of
life
 Culture pattern can be understood and used to help in interaction.

References:
Hall, S. (2014). Cultural identity and diaspora. In Diaspora and visual
culture (pp. 35-47). Routledge.
Kaur, S. (2015). A corporate culture pattern to manage business Ethics.
Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research (AJMR), 4(3), 89-97.
Mesman, J., van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Sagi-Schwarz, A. (2016). Cross-cultural
patterns of attachment. Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research,
and Clinical Applications, third ed. Guilford, New York, NY, 852-877.
Sherif, M. (2017). Social interaction: Process and products. (pp. 31-48).
Routledge.