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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.