Question

1. Give examples of how products have been globalized.

2. Explain the differences between norms, roles, rules, and networks.

3. Define a subculture and give examples of Canadian subcultures.

4. Distinguish between intercultural communication and intracultural communication.

5. Are business cultures necessarily aligned to national cultures?

Answer 1

1. Products have been globalized as people globalized. When people left one place and settled at the other they took their culture with themselves. Once the culture spread people started looking for various resources to produce that product. Say, shirt, a shirt being sold in America could have used chinese cotton and Indian labours. This is how products are globalized.

2. Norms are average behaviour of a group. Rules are set of instruction made for a group to practice. Role is the position and function of someone in a situation. And network means systems which are connected to each other.

3.subculture means when a group of people belonging to a culture separates themselves from that culture, maintaining some of its founding principles. Canada has Indian, Hungarian sub cultures.

4. Intercultural communication means exchange of meaning full message amongst different culture whereas, intraculture communication means exchange of meaningful message within the same cultural group.

5. No, as foreign investments takes place, business culture can be a mixed culture .