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Assignment: Apples to Apples: Major Elements of Cultural Patterns
To prepare for this Assignment:
- Review your Discussion posts from Week 1 about how your beliefs, values, and norms are derived from your culture.
- Review the major elements of cultural patterns in Chapter 4 of your course text:
- Activity orientation
- Social relations orientation
- Self-orientation
- World orientation
- Time orientation
- Use the Cultural Patterns Continuum document to analyze your orientations and those of your national culture for each of the five orientation categories.
- Review the optional Walden Writing Center resource on effective PowerPoint presentations.
By Day 7
Submit a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:
- Compare your preferences in each dimension to those of your culture.
- For the places where you marked yourself differently from your culture, explain what you believe accounts for these differences.
- Explain why cultural patterns are effective for thinking about people from other cultures and understanding cultural differences.
- Predict how knowledge of cultural patterns can be applied to interaction with people from a culture you select.
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