Culture Dimension
|
Character Todd, Puro, Asha or other
|
Outscored Scene or Circumstance
|
Communication- direct/indirect
|
Todd and Charlie (Todd manager)
|
Direct communication.
Todd and Charlie were talked face to face.
|
Decision-making: rules / relations
|
Todd and Charlie
|
Rules.
Todd was forced to travel to India by Charlie.
|
Expression – Reveal / conceal
|
Todd and Charlie
|
Reveal.
When Charlie tell Todd
about the traveling to India he denied that.
|
Context – Informal / formal
|
Todd and Charlie
|
Informal.
When Charlie tried to convince Todd to travel to in India. Also
Todd called his boss by his name.
|
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?
There was a little
boy set in the train seats when he see Todd he stand up and let Todd to set instead of him. I think is yes it might be a
culture solution. In India the boys let the older people to set instead of them
and this considered as respect to that old person.
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 drink iced drink after
that he feel with sick in his stomach.
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?
Because of the place of that hotel is so lonely.
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 him a lot of
personal questions.
