To prepare for this Application:<br/> <br/> -Review your Discussion

posts from Week 1 about how your beliefs, values, and norms are derived from your culture.
-Review the major elements of cultural patterns in Chapter 4 of your course text:
-Activity orientation
-Social relations orientation
-Self-orientation
-World orientation
-Time orientation
-Use the Cultural Patterns Continuum document to analyze your orientations and those of your national culture for each of the five orientation categories.
-Review the optional Walden Writing Center resource on effective PowerPoint presentations.Submit by Day 6 a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

-Compare your preferences in each dimension to those of your culture.
-For the places where you marked yourself differently from your culture, explain what you believe accounts for these differences.
-Explain why cultural patterns are effective for thinking about people from other cultures and understanding cultural differences.
-Predict how knowledge of cultural patterns can be  applied to interaction with people from the culture you selected for your Final  Project.t

Attached is the Cultural Patterns Continuum document.

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Week 3 AssignmentFive Dimensions of Cultural PatternsUsing the cultural pattern continuum below and the five major elements of culturalpatterns described in the “An Overview of Cultural Patterns” section of Chapter 4 of thecourse text, complete this assessment by marking anXalong the continuum where yousee yourself and anOwhere you see your national culture.Example:Time OrientationHow Do People Value Time?Scarce resource ——–X—–O———————————————————————————- UnlimitedFast pace ————O————X——————————————————————————- Slow paceIn the above example, the individual (X) believes that time is a fairly scarce resource—perhaps he is an extremely busy person and never has enough time to do everything.This person also sees time go by rather quickly. However, this person sees his nationalculture (O) in a slightly different light. The individual sees his national culture asbelieving that time is not as scarce a resource as he experiences it, but the nationalculture still sees time as scarce rather than unlimited. In terms of the pace of how timegoes by, he sees his national culture believing that time goes by more quickly than heexperiences it. In other words, the saying, “Time flies,” applies even more to his nationalculture in general than to him.Fill out the following dimensions of cultural patterns and consider your reasoning as yougo along. You will use your results to formulate the 10- to 12-slide PowerPointpresentation for this Assignment due byDay 6.Activity Orientation1. Defining ActivityDoing —————————————————- Becoming ————————————————— BeingStriving —————————————————————————————————————- FatalisticCompulsive ——————————————————————————————————– Easygoing2. Evaluating ActivityTechniques ————————————————————————————————————– GoalsProcedures ————————————————————————————————————– Ideals3. Regard for and Handling WorkAn end in itself ———————————————————————————— A means to other endsSeparate from play ———————————————————————————- Integrated with playA challenge ———————————————————————————————————- A burdenProblem solving ———————————————————————————— Coping with situations© 2014 Laureate Education, Inc.Page 1 of 3

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Social Relations Orientation1. Relating to OthersAs equals ——————————————————————————————————— HierarchicalInformal —————————————————————————————————————— FormalMember of many groups ———————————————————————— Member of few groupsWeak group identification —————————————————————— Strong group identification2. Defining and Allocating RolesAchieved ————————————————————————————————————– AscribedGender roles similar ——————————————————————————– Gender roles distinct3. Communicating with OthersDirectly —————————————————————————————————————- IndirectlyNo intermediaries ——————————————————————————————- Intermediaries4. Basing Social ReciprocityIndependence —————————————- Interdependence ———————————– DependenceAutonomy ———————————————————————————————————— ObligationSelf-Orientation1. People Form Their IdentitiesBy themselves ————————————————————————————————– With others2. How Changeable Is the Self?Changeable ————————————————————————————————– UnchangeableSelf-realization stressed —————————————————————– Self-realization not stressed3. Source of Motivation for the SelfReliance on self ————————————————————————————— Reliance on othersRights ——————————————————————————————————————— Duties4. The Kind of Person that is Valued and RespectedYoung ———————————————————————————————————————- AgedVigorous ——————————————————————————————————————- WiseInnovative ———————————————————————————————————- ProminentMaterial attributes ————————————————————————————- Spiritual Attributes© 2014 Laureate Education, Inc.Page 2 of 3

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