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Study of Human Behavior due to Cross Culture

   

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Running head: CROSS-CULTUREEssay on Cross culture

CROSS-CULTURE1AbstractThe study of relating different cultures for understanding the difference in the behaviors ofhuman affected by culture is known as Cross culture studies. Cross cultural attitude is thebehavior of the individual towards different culture. In this essay we will discuss about the crossculture and its attitude, importance of cross cultural studies, evaluation of past research on crosscultural attitudes. Essay will also explain different theories for cross cultural attitudes andlimitations in the literature. Different points will be discussed to eliminate the limitations in theliterature.IntroductionContact between people from different cultures is increasing that is giving more importance tocross cultural attitudes (Min & Kim, 2013)). People have different opinions about differentculture people. It can be negative or positive. People should respect the values of all the culturesas values, beliefs are the major component of culture. Culture provide a perceptive forunderstanding the world. People are contributing towards this by learning new languages tounderstand other culture people and make them feel familiar. Many business are working on thisand helping their employees to learn languages so that they can communicate with differentculture people and can value other people culture.Prejudice, Racism, and Discrimination. Prejudice is a wide social phenomenon. It is used to refer to unfavorable, judgments towardsperson due to social class, disability, religion, language, gender, age, nationality, etc. Stereotypesrepresentation of a person, group or society is known as Prejudice (Diplomba. 2017). In thispeople from one culture make opinions and judge other people from different culture. Theseopinions and judgments are not based on any reason or experience. From psychological point ofview people start discriminating each other and it separates different nations. There are differenttypes of prejudice such as Groundless prejudice, nominal prejudice, Tokenism prejudice,Familiar and unfamiliar prejudice, Individual prejudice, A long arm prejudice, Favors andantipathies prejudice, Institutional prejudice (Lumen. 2017).Racism means belief of people of each race own features, skills, or abilities specific to that race.It separate people into hierarchies according to the race. Due to genetic differences it has beensaid that unequal treatment among dissimilar culture is fair. Racism is faced by cultures that are

CROSS-CULTURE2different from other culture people according to their physical features and characteristics oftheir culture. Racism started in the eighteenth century (Diplomba. 2017). It is the most talkedissue in today’s society.Types of racism are scientific racism, new racism, historical racism, unaware/self-righteousracism, aware/blatant racism, institutional racism, internalized racism, unaware/unintentionalracism and aware/covert racism. Discrimination refers to the attitude of people from one culture denies to give equal treatment topeople because they are from different culture. Discrimination is built on the fantasies, feelings,beliefs and motivation of prejudice (Communication. 2017). One of the discrimination isinstitutional discrimination. It means denying to allow certain groups for providing resources,privileges and opportunities. Importance of Cross culture attitudeDiversification is growing due to globalized markets, speedy communication and quicktransport, the world is getting affected by terrorism and the evil actions of all the worldpowers. All these anger and negative powers are reason of failure on the global andindividual levels. If world want to live happily and in peace then it is important tounderstand issues of inter-cultural and inter-racial relationships and its attitudes (Ingram,2005). Learning language effect cross cultural attitudes positively as it helps in developingknowledge of different culture.Cross culture attitude helps in changing the attitude of one culture people towards peoplefrom other culture people. Cross culture attitude is important for increasing capability to make fair decisions and toappreciate opinions of different culture people. Cross culture attitude is important for learning and understanding other cultures and theirpeople. It also increase the respect for other countries and their culture. Cross culture attitude encourages the essence of international cooperation (Ingram, 2005).

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