Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Your Culture

I just finished reading this book all about culture. It made it a little more easy to understand culture and knowing where people are coming from. The book over all theme put culture into two different categories; hot-culture and cold-culture.

Hot-Culture:
Relationship
Feel-good Atmosphere
Indirectly Answer Question
Group-Oriented Inclusive
Hospitality is spontaneous

Cold-Culture:
Task Oriented
Time and Efficiency is important
Direct, Short and to the point
Individualistic
Private
Schedule events and gathers

What type of culture do you come from?

(if you are from the northern part of America you are probably a cold-culture but if you are from the southern part of America you might be a hot-culture)

3 comments:

  1. HEY Maddy,never thought of warm southern hospitality as being hot- cutural,except mayby a little hot headed some timees.
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  2. Maddy,
    This book sounds interesting! What's the name of it?

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  3. It is a good book and an easy read too. The book is called Foreign to Familiar and it is by Sarah A Lanier.

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