Me vs. We

1. In a collectivist culture what personality traits are likely to be considered ideal? In an individualist culture?
-Individuals have a common trait of competitiveness. Collectivists have a common trait of being loyal.

2. In what type of culture might elders or people who have professional distinction receive more respect and less challenge from people lower on their culture's/group's hierarchy? Explain your answer.
-Status is defined very similarly in both cultures. In individualist societies they receive more respect because they are smarter and have more distinction than other people while in collectivist they receive more respect because people know they can make good attributions to their groups because of their knowledge.

3.Create a specific problem  a teacher may encounter when he/she moves from teaching in a collectivist culture to and individualist culture or vice versa. Explain the specific values/influences/obligations/desires caused by the clash. Propose a way for the conflict to be resolved.
-coll. to ind.- The teacher may be used to correcting the class as a whole because then they all will fix it (in a coll. society). When she comes to an individualist society and corrects the whole class no one applies it to themselves because she did not correct them individually and therefore they do not improve. This causes the children to not learn and some parents may get mad because their child isn't learning. The teacher could fix this by individually correcting the children.


4. What is an acquaintance? Does the word have a positive or negative connotation?
-An acquaintance is someone you know but aren't good friends with. I think it has a positive connotation because you know them but just aren't close this has is not bad in my opinion.