Intercultural Competence in Business: A Comparison of Romanian and Spanish Culture

Intercultural
Competence in
Business
Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Autobiography of X.....................................................................................................................3
Autobiography of Y.....................................................................................................................4
Comparison between Romanian culture and Spanish culture.....................................................5
Link both Romanian and Spanish culture with theories..............................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Every country is having different set of culture, belief and tradition that makes it unique in its
own way. Culture and tradition makes the country different from each other. It helps in providing
the intrinsic value in terms of social and economic benefits (Murphie and Potts, 2017). There are
various benefits that a culture has. This project report will cover a vast comparison of Romanian
and Spanish culture along with its theories in order to demonstrate the differences and
similarities by using different theories. This project report will cover Kluckhohn and Strodbeck’s
and Hall Edward theory. In addition to that, it will also include the analysis of both the person
based on theories.
TASK
Autobiography of X
X is a 16 year old boy lives in Oradea, Romania. As he was living with his parents in Romania
since his birth that becomes quite easy for him to adopt the culture of this country. He was aware
about all the culture and tradition of country. It becomes easy for him to adopt as his parents
were living in the same country since their childhood. They have provided detailed explanation
about the tradition and culture of Romanian. Their parents told him the stories of Romanian
emperor that makes him about the culture more deeply. The Romania was in three regions
Walachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania. The books of Romania also tell students about the past
foreign occupation. The boy got to know about the that there are various regions that was ruled
by different people. Each part of the country is divided into three parts and having different set of
culture and tradition. The three parts of Romania are East, West and South. Molodova is situated
in the middle of east part. In the west part adjacent regions are situated. There are different set of
traditions that the boy has learned through his parents. As there are two communities in
Romania; Hungarian and German community.
 Language – The people of Romania speaks the Romanian and around 7% populations
speaks Hungarian. In addition to that, around 1.5% people speak German.
 Society –The Romanian is the hierarchical society in which age and position are being
respected. The older people are viewed in the sense and have much experience as they