CAN YOU ANSWER EACH QUESTION. 1 SOURCE FOR EACH ONE THANK YOU.
1. During the first weeks of an overseas assignment to Buenos Aires, Argentina, Beth Pace was invited to the home of her Argentine business associate for dinner. Beth decided to bring her and her husband a present. Having been told that red meat is a dietary staple in Argentina, Beth decided to take a beautiful set of steak knives as a gift.
Upon opening the gift, however, Nick’s Argentine hostess and host seemed quite upset.
In your opinion what did Beth do wrong?
2. A monopoly firm enjoys a great deal of market power. Is the government right in intervening in free markets to limit monopolies? Explain.
3. Steve Reichs was on a month-long assignment at his company’s office in Pusan, Korea. Wanting to catch the attention of his supervisor who was standing across the room, Steve “crooked” his index finger at him in an innocent gesture to have him come closer. Not only did Steve get his supervisor’s attention, he so infuriated his boss that Steve came very close to being sent back to the home office.
What was the problem?
4. While working for a Philadelphia bank in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Claire Roberts met, quite unexpectedly, one of her female colleague at a shopping mall one weekend. The local Malaysian colleague was accompanied by her five-year-old daughter. Claire was so taken by the girl’s beauty that she patted the girl on the head while commenting to the mother what a gorgeous child she had. Much to Claire’s surprise, however, the mother responded by saying that the girl was not very pretty at all and then abruptly left.
What had Roberts done? She was simply trying to pay the woman’s daughter a compliment.
5. Have you ever experienced culture shock personally? It may have been on your first vacation abroad or when you lived abroad. You do not have to go overseas to experience culture shock, you may have experienced this phenomenon right here in the USA if you interacted with people from other cultures who moved here and have kept their cultural traditions from their home country.
Describe your reaction to interacting with the other culture for the first time.
