This assignment seeks to help you understand the answer to a broader concern and that is, "How can some publicly available online information sources help me understand different national cultures?" You should base your responses to the following questions on your analysis of a series of websites noted below.
· Country Etiquette Guides found on the Kwintessential.com website. http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/country-profiles.html and http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/etiquette/doing-business-in.html
· Country Insights found on Centre for Inter-Cultural Learning website. http://www.intercultures.ca
For each of the questions below, compare and summarize in one-half page each, the responses for five countries.
Please answer the following questions.
· What is one important point associated with negotiations?
· What are some rules of thumb associated with meeting and greeting?
· How might a foreigner make a good first impression?
· What are some of the stereotypes associated with the culture of the country?
Hint: Please look closely at the questions and/or keywords used on the Kwintessential's Country Etiquette Guides and the Centre for Inter-Cultural Learning's Country Insights. You might find similarities with those of this assignment.
Please limit your response to this assignment to three single spaced, typed pages. Please cite your sources in the text and please reference them at the end of your assignment. Please end your write-up with one paragraph that summarizes what you think is the importance of this assignment.
two single space is enough.