What is culture

1. What Is Culture

2. What Is Culture

Ethnocentrism & xenophobia
Definition
Cultural display
What’s normal
Culture shock

3. Ethnocentrism & Xenophobia

4. Definition

Culture – collective
programming of the mind
that distinguishes members
of one category of people
from another.

5. Definition

Culture represents a number of
values, ideas, objects, and other
symbols that help people to
communicate, to interpret and
understand the environment.

6. Culture

psychological
values
ideas
objects
environmental
social
technological
Political & economic

7. Culture & Individual

Personal
idiosyncrasies
Cultural
program
Universalities

8. Cultural Display

9. Cultural Display

FRIENDLY CULTURE
Semi-acceptance
adaptation
conciliation
empathy
assimilation
ALIEN CULTURE
Resistance
defense
deadlock

10. Culture Shock

• Constant strain
• Acute homesickness
• Anger
• Feeling helpless and totally lonely

11. Culture Shock

• Anxiety
• Frustration
• Resistance
• Recovery
• Adaptation