Intercultural Relations: A Comparison of French and Indian Cultures

Running head: INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS
Intercultural Relations
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1INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS
The theory of the Hofstede's cultural tool or dimension develops a framework encircling
the insight of the cross cultural communication as introduced by Geert Hofstede (Rodriguez &
Boyer, 2018). The cultural tool portrays the effect of the culture constituted in the society
regarding the values of the members of the community. The 6 dimension as constituted by the
toll of the national cultures are the Power Distance Index (PDI), Uncertainty Avoidance (UAI),
Long term orientation vs. Short Term orientation (LTO), Individualism vs. collectivism (IDV),
Masculinity vs. femininity (MAS), Indulgence vs. restraint (IND) (Cultural Atlas IES 2018).
This cultural tool put together the national scores and the six dimension model of Hofstede’s
allows the comparison among the culture and the communities in the international domain in the
form of the comparative research. The assignment focuses on the differences and the similarities
among the chosen culture or the French culture that of with the Indian culture on the context of
development of joint venture with a company in the France.
Consideration towards the aspects of the intercultural issues:
Cultural influence on the perceptions
India:
The diversity of the Indian culture is many fold and complex in relation to the picture.
The traditional Indian culture is generally defines a relatively strict social hierarchy that focuses
on the roles and the places of the children and the individuals (Hall, 2014). Several factors
includes such as the division of the religion, the bifurcation of the polluted occupation and strict
patter of the patriarchal practices in India (Kwok & Yu, 2016). The culture of the India is among
the world's most oldest civilizations, though considered as one of the colonize countries have
made some of the significant advances in diverse domains.

2INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS
France:
For more than thousands of years, the globe and the people in the globe has come in
contact with the culture of the France via the ideas of the export to the France, the cuisine, the
fashion, the literature, the film and the art (Cavusgil et al., 2014). As one of the largest western
European nation as one of the leading economies of the region, the French culture still continues
to be the powerhouse among the continent of the Europe. Some of the ideas that are integral to
the French culture as expressed in the national motto of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité’ illustrates the
unified and undivided group of the French. In the light of the growth of the influx of the
immigrants and the EU, the government prohibits the authorities of the state towards the
avoidance of the ethnic and the religious markers towards the highlighting of the differences
within the France.
Barriers to intercultural communication
The language differences
India:
India is a diverse country. Hindi is the most highly spoken language in the country. Apart
from the national language some of the other different languages include tamil, telegu, marathi,
bengali, punjabi, urdu and bihari (Abhishek & Sahay, 2016). Being one of the oldest cultures,
India has been subjected to the plethora of the influences of the languages.
France:
The French language is the official language that is spoken through out the country of
France. In the previous scenario, French was an internationally accepted language towards the