exercise #5

Cultural Dimension	Character Todd, Puro, Aisha or other	Outsourced Scene or Circumstance
Communication- direct/indirect	Todd and his manger	Direct communication,( When The manger asked Todd to go to his office without any question.)
Planning – People / time	Todd and his manger	Time,( The manger gave Todd a short time to accomplish his mission)
Decision-making: rules / relations	Todd and the poor people behind the wall	Decision-making, (Instead of throwing the food, Todd decided to give the food to the poor people behind the wall.)
Context – Informal / formal	Todd and his colleagues at work	Informal, ( when Todd asked his colleagues at work to bring whatever what they want in the working spot to feel comfortable.)

3. When he gets on the train, he cannot find an empty seat. How is this problem
solved for him? How might this be a cultural solution?

Todd surprised that there was no seats inside the train, suddenly a little boy stand up and gave Todd his seat,than the little boy sat on Todd's right leg . It might be a cultural solution, it's their duty to show their respect to the people who are bigger than them. like old people for example.

4. As any exchange student, he has a lot of experiences trying new food. His first
encounter is with an iced drink. What happens?

He felt sick after eating that iced drink, and his stomach started to blowup.

7. Todd wants to check in to a hotel. But Puro insists he comes to a boarding house.
What is the reason he gives Todd?

He says that the hotel is very lonely, While Aunti Ji has a very good garden and she cook really well .

8. As soon as they meet, Aunti Ji starts asking very intimate questions that
Americans who have just met would never ask. What kind of things does she ask?

 She asked a lot of question, specially she focused on the personal things.

Exercise #4

How does culture/ and the 12 Dimensions influence:

Applying the culture and the 12 Dimensions on our daily life is something important according to what I have read. But have we thought about what makes it special ?

It can be impacted or influenced by a number of things, firstly, life choices, secondly, thinking, and thirdly, sense of group or neither accountability. Besides, I have chosen to talk about the Amish model to clarify my point

Surprisingly, what makes the culture and the 12 Dimensions special is that it represent the community of this culture by all means on whether how do they communicate, their relationship, or even destiny...etc

Therefore, Amish tribe is a community that rely on simplistic living means. In fact, they believe that what is acceptable in one community may not be acceptable in another that's why their choices are limited. Also, they do have guns inside their homes but they don't use them as an equipment to kill humans, it's just for hunting. Moreover, all Amish believe that large families are a blessing from god, living alone or in another ward individual is isolated from their dictionary. Bearing children, raising them, and socializing with neighbors and relatives are the greatest functions of the Amish family.

In general, through my experience on the Amish tribes I have explored that they do not use electricity because of the problems caused by it, television, radios, and computers...etc,   
they believe that it is a waste of time.

How your Arabic culture influence your choice:

Nowadays our first language which is Arabic has been influenced by other languages. We all know that English language is the biggest competitor world widely. looking for a job nowadays is not easy for local citizen if they don't require English language. That's why they concentrate on English at school, and universities more than Arabic.   

      

Hi everyone,

first of all my name is Amran, this is the name that I'm supposed to be called at my parents house. Unfortunately my head is nearly similar to the coconuts fruit, so they always makes fun of me by calling me the "coconut head".

As for my age I'm about 18 years old and I don't feel like I am ! I always get treated as a young 10 years old kid. What makes me different from everyone is that I can read the "Quran" with so many different recitation, the one who was behind that is my father who passed away 3 months ago, I'm not sad I am glad to have a father like him because he raised my personality, and he always motivated me in everything; I'm really thankful for everything he offered me "may our God bless his soul".

I have so many things I like to do in my life, one of the most interactive thing I do most of the time is"traveling", I've been to "NEW ZEALEAND" and "CANADA" a year ago and stayed there for about 1 month for each one. Each one of them has its own unique cultural pure colors, for example: In "New-Zealand" there are the "MAORIES" their costumes are nearly similar to the characters on a game called "Crash Twin-sanity", It was really exciting for real. They also kisses noses like we do in the "UAE", I was really shocked at the beginning but when I asked them they said that : "Its really common to see that on the "MAORIES" community. On the other hand, in "CANADA" they uses "COSPLAYS" as a path to present their selves.

My passion is based on electronics its one of the things that makes me feel alive. I am looking forward hopefully to be an electronic engineer in the near future.

One of the most exciting thing I did a while ago is that I've had the chance to experience the sky diving in"DUBAI" It was one of the greatest moments in my life, I felt like a bird falling from the sky without any wings above it. I thought that I will not be able to do it at the beginning but I was amazed and proud of what I have done at the end.

I've met peoples from so many different countries in my life such as Americans, Canadian, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Indian, Germans, and British...etc. One of the most inter-cultural experience that I have had is significantly based on japan, I really didn't have the chance to go there but a friend of mine from japan had told once that they have a festival called "Setsubun" it usually starts in February 2 or 3; They throw the beans on the large temples to drive away the evil spirits, that was quiet interesting. 

I think that its really important to know about the other cultures, because after a while you may experience the same situation, you will be facing people from all over the world asking you about whats the uniqueness of your culture, If you didn't answer about their questions your culture will be directly vanished.