It is widely known, that parents and educators often differ in the way they stimulate children to succeed in tasks. This difference stems from diverging cultural orientations, and more specifically, on how people in different cultures understand the ‘right’ person.
By Katerina Pouliasi, written for ‘The Inquisitive Mind‘ When individuals live actively with two cultures (in families, organizations or society at large) they, partly unconsciously, partly deliberately, may change towards acquiring a ‘bicultural mind’. I will discuss here whether these individuals become capable of spontaneously producing appropriate responses that fit the expectation patterns of either of their two […]
Culture matters to the extent that individuals from different cultures appreciate different values. But, how do we deal in situations at work if such values are conflicting? In fact, Herodotus, some 2.500 years ago, already cast a sharp ethnographic eye
For culturally mixed participants. People from different cultures have different and even conflicting expectations of their relationships. Also boundaries between personal and professional life, compared cross-culturally, are neither self-evident nor similar. Yet, in present-day multicultural Western societies dealing with individuals with an ‘other’ cultural background is inevitable, whether within our own family, at work, in our […]
We possess the scientific expertise and the experience to identify influence of culture(s) within individuals on how the feel, think and behave and, as a consequence, on how the spontaneously behave in private relationships, in a group’s context or in larger organisations. We use thoughtfully selected case-studies from our everyday life and put participants in the shoes of the protagonist of the story […]
An informal interactive presentation by Dr. Katerina Pouliasi This presentation is designed for participants from different cultures, to promote intercultural communication. The recognition of own culture ‘within’ you, is the first step towards developing the ability to communicate yourself effectively with people with different cultural mindsets
