Deck 2: Cross-Cultrual Busines

Question 1

Culture is a highly complex portrait of a people.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

A group of people who share a unique way of life within a larger, dominant culture is called a subculture.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A nation's business environment comprises all aspects of culture, politics, law, and economics that affect international business activities.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Cultural literacy improves one's ability to manage employees, market products, and conduct negotiations in other countries.

Question 5

International business projects rarely, if ever, fail because of the lack of sensitivity firms give to cultural nuances.

Question 6

Culturally literate managers bring their company closer to customers and improve the firm's competitiveness.

Question 7

Success in international business can often be traced directly to a deep understanding of some aspect of a people's commercial environment.

Question 8

The first step in analyzing a nation's potential as a host for international business activity typically involves assessing its overall business climate.

Question 9

Ethnocentricity improves the ability to manage employees, market products, and conduct negotiations in other countries.

Question 10

When speaking of culture, people tend to ignore the concept of the nation-state.

Question 11

When people from around the world come together to conduct business, they bring with them different backgrounds, assumptions, expectations, and methods of communication in other words, culture.

Question 12

Geocentricity is the belief that one's own culture or ethnic group is superior to that of others.

Question 13

Most nations regulate culturally sensitive sectors of the economy to help preserve national culture.

Question 14

Nokia Corporation uses its knowledge of cultures to adapt its mobile handsets to suit local markets.

Question 15

Culture refers to the set of values, beliefs, rules, and institutions held by a specific group of people.

Question 16

Ethnocentricity is the belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to that of others.

Question 17

The first step in analyzing a nation's potential for international business activity is to examine its religion.

Question 18

Detailed knowledge about a culture that enables a person to function effectively in it is called cultural literacy.

Question 19

Nations with democracy and freedom of speech do not regulate economic sectors such as broadcasting and filmmaking.

Question 20

Cultural leniency means having detailed knowledge about a culture that enables a person to function effectively within it.

Question 21

Values are quite rigid over time, while attitudes are more flexible.

Question 22

Subcultures sometimes exist across national borders.

Question 23

Attitudes are positive or negative evaluations, feelings, and tendencies that individuals harbor toward objects or concepts.

Question 24

The color of death and mourning, black, is universal despite all the cultural differences in the world.

Question 25

The importance of aesthetics is not as great when going international using the Internet.

Question 26

In today's global business world, the use of a 12-hour clock (as opposed to the 24-hour clock) is universally appropriate.

Question 27

The United Kingdom and the United States value group consensus, whereas Japan and South Korea value individual freedom.

Question 28

Using national flags as symbols for buttons to click to view different language versions of a company's web site is always appropriate because it avoids potential cultural problems.

Question 29

When going global with an Internet presence, it tends to be true that the more you localize, the better.

Question 30

A subculture will, by definition, share the same language, lifestyle, values, and attitudes as the dominant culture.

Question 31

Because the number four (4) is considered to be particularly lucky in China, entrepreneurs doing business there are advised to get a web site address or telephone number containing that number.

Question 32

Whereas attitudes are quite rigid over time, values are more flexible.

Question 33

Subcultures seldom exist in democratic countries with large populations.

Question 34

The population of China comprises more than 5,000 distinct ethnic groups.

Question 35

Although the nation-state plays a role in the development of national culture, cultural boundaries do not always correspond to political boundaries.

Question 36

Only the imagery evoked by certain colors, and the symbolism of expressions is known as a culture's physical environment.

Question 37

Aesthetics deals with imagery, symbolism of color, and the arts.

Question 38

Cultural boundaries always correspond to political boundaries.

Question 39

Although China is composed of more than 50 distinct ethnic groups, everyone is fluent in the official Mandarin dialect.

Question 40

Mexicans living in the United States can be described as a subculture.

Question 41

Social structure has no effect on business decisions concerning the selection of a production site or advertising methods.

Question 42

A cultural trait is anything that represents a culture's way of life, including gestures, material objects, traditions, and concepts.

Question 43

Islam is the world's largest religion with over 2 billion followers.

Question 44

Religion strongly affects the kinds of goods and services acceptable to Muslim consumers.

Question 45

Understanding religion may help us to understand why cultures differ in their views of work, savings, and material goods.

Question 46

Customs are habits or ways of behaving in specific circumstances that are passed down through generations in a culture.

Question 47

The concept of nuclear family that prevails in much of Europe includes grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins.

Question 48

An important aspect of social structure is status, which refers to the way a culture divides its population according to positions within a society's structure.

Question 49

Perceived opportunity for success and reward is a strong element in a culture's attitude toward work.

Question 50

Wearing blue jeans and playing golf are both folk customs across the globe.

Question 51

Gender refers to socially learned behaviors and attitudes expected of men and women.

Question 52

People in Japan are casual about time and maintain flexible schedules.

Question 53

Appropriate ways of behaving, speaking, and dressing in a culture are called customs.

Question 54

The rapid pace of cultural diffusion and increased human interaction across national borders are causing cultures to converge to some extent.

Question 55

For Hindus, the highest goal of life is "moksha" rebirth of the human soul at the time of death.

Question 56

Many folk customs that have spread by cultural diffusion to other regions have developed into popular customs.

Question 57

Company policies and practices at odds with the deeply held beliefs of the local culture should be introduced gradually.

Question 58

Rather than view their influence on culture as the inevitable consequence of doing business, companies can take steps to soften their impact on cultures.

Question 59

Cultural imperialism refers to the replacement of one culture's traditions, folk heroes and artifacts with substitutes from another.

Question 60

The most common form of social stratification in the world today is the caste system.

Question 61

Material culture often displays uneven development across a nation's geography, markets, and industries.

Question 62

Literacy tests offer a good basis on which to compare nations because they are highly standardized globally.

Question 63

Shinto is a highly popular religion in Ecuador today.

Question 64

Hindus and Buddhists both seek "nirvana" a state of eternal happiness.

Question 65

Organizations in risk-accepting cultures tend to welcome practices from other cultures but also tend to suffer greater employee turnover.

Question 66

Understanding a culture's spoken language gives us limited insight into why people think and act the way they do.

Question 67

Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan have experienced rapid economic development despite their poor education systems.

Question 68

The native languages of England and Germany are each dialects of Gaelic.

Question 69

In Asian cultures, associates of equal standing bow about 45 degrees toward one another, but showing proper respect for elders requires a bow of about 90 degrees.

Question 70

Nations that invest in worker training are rarely rewarded with productivity increases and rising incomes.

Question 71

Cultures that score low on uncertainty avoidance tend to be more open to change and new ideas.

Question 72

Education is crucial for passing on traditions, customs, and values.

Question 73

The Hofstede framework can be used to compare the U.S. and Japanese cultures along six dimensions.

Question 74

Hinduism was the first religion to preach belief in a single God.

Question 75

French is the most common form of "lingua franca" in international business.

Question 76

Group-oriented cultures are typically found in Europe and North America.

Question 77

Brain drain is the dummying-down of a society's people due to excessive video-game playing.

Question 78

Prestige and rewards tend to be more equally shared between superiors and rank-and-file employees in cultures with large power distance.

Question 79

Meals prepared according to the Jewish dietary traditions are called "kosher."

Question 80

The physical environment of a people directly determines their culture.