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This 10 page paper considers a scenario where a student is Cross asked to participate in a cultural experience that is unfamiliar to them. The paper is written in the first person as an experience, with the reasons for the choice and the way it is perceived and fits in with cultural dimensions theories is discussed. The paper goes on to discuss how and why the experience will help the student to deal with cross cultural communications in the international business environment. The cross cultural experience discussed in attendance at a Voodoo ritual. The bibliography cites 15 sources.
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each individual can only judge what they see as normal and acceptable for their own perceive. This in turn is created, influenced and maintained or adapted as a result of
experiences, intellectual and practical exposure to influences (Huges and Youngson, 2009, Nevid, 2009). Where new experiences are completely alien to existing thought patterns there can be resistance and fear (Huczynski
and Buchanan, 2007), but to deal with international environment where divergent cultures meet there is an important not only to understand other cultures, but to understand out own reactions in
order to manage them and facilitate increased understanding, overcoming personal constraints that many limited the efficiency of interaction and the ability to increase understanding (Gudykunst, 2003). In undertaking an
experience where there is a new cultural experience the decision to choose an experience that is completely alien was attractive, but many culture experiences are not this extreme. It was
in asking around that I was eventually offered the chance to attend a Voodoo ritual. This was an unusual and unique opportunity to observe a culture extremely different to that
seen in mainstream cultures in the western nations, and provided a good tool in order to assess my own actions and attitudes towards culturally different practices. 2. The Event
In order to understand the ritual it is important to understand a ittle background to the ritual. Vodun as a religion is
followed by the majority of adults in the island of Haiti, it can be found be followed in many of the major cities in North America, particular in the Southern
States such as Tennessee and Mississippi. Vodun is like Christianity it is a religion of many traditions and values, each path or group
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