{"id":77,"date":"2017-02-05T22:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T05:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/clairelee\/?p=77"},"modified":"2017-02-05T22:08:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T05:08:02","slug":"77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/clairelee\/2017\/02\/05\/77\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Few days ago, I was walking with my school friends when I saw a senior from my Korean church. I instinctively greeted them in honorific and bowed down 90 degrees. In Korean culture, bowing down to a senior is an appropriate act of courtesy and politeness, and to not bow down to a senior means a sign of disrespect.<\/p>\n

Something so natural to me must have shocked my friends– they looked at me in bewilderment: “What did you just do?” I looked back at them, confused as to what they meant. And I realized. Bowing, a natural cultural-appropriate action to take in Korea, was completely foreign to my friends from other cultures.<\/p>\n

This led to me thinking about the differences in cultural values of one another. Is it possible for an individual to understand the depth and norms of a culture and appropriately act in such a manner?\u00a0Earley and Mosakowski suggests that we have\u00a0cognitive intelligence (CQ)\u00a0<\/strong>that gives an indication of our ability to understand others’ unfamiliar cultural\u00a0norms. \u00a0For example, some may analyze a foreign culture’s rules, use intuition, or mimic other’s actions. Some may even use a combination of different ways to understand others. However, most people are unable to fully embody themselves to understand an another’s cultures; in fact, only 5% of managers are able to fully embody this culture.<\/p>\n

As indicated above, most people are unable to have the full depth of a cultural understanding of others. Even among those who can have that full understanding, I believe that their potential is limited. After all, I think that being able to fully embody a culture means that one is able to truly relate to the culture by heart. As all cultures share different beliefs, some in the extreme ends of another, I feel it is improbable for a person to share the contradicting beliefs at the same time and embody all culture.<\/p>\n

This led me to question, then, in this growing international world, is it possible to be able to fully understand others? Would the inability to fully connect to other people’s cultures be detrimental? After much contemplation, my answer is this: I do not feel that people can fully understand everyone else’s cultures, no. But, I feel that it IS possible for people to be accepting\u00a0<\/strong>of other people’s beliefs and norms, and with the mutual acceptance in an organization, it is possible to create a positive organizational atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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Few days ago, I was walking with my school friends when I saw a senior from my Korean church. I instinctively greeted them in honorific and bowed down 90 degrees. In Korean culture, bowing down to a senior is an appropriate act of courtesy and politeness, and to not bow down to a senior means … <\/p>\n

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