Quiz on Old World New World

1.  Over 50% of all international joint ventures fail with lost revenue, and poor working relations because the two parties did not do enough market research.

2. The values and behaviors of our culture are acquired and internalized during childhood.

3. "Our culture is best" is an example of ethnocentrism.

4. In most real-life cross-cultural encounters people know fully well there has been a misunderstanding.

5. Fatalism means believing that in some cases control over your life is out of your hands e.g. "che sara sara".

6.  Often when people have a cross-cultural misunderstanding they assume the problem is personal.

7.  The US developed values that often were opposed to the values they had left behind in the "old world" (Europe), e.g. the US developed religious tolerance.

8. Americans favor (like) inherited rank and privilege.

9. The British upper and upper middle classes have a culture of maintaining a stiff upper lip, being unflappable, not showing emotion in public,  and keeping ones dignity.

10. Scenes in Israel and scenes in the UK are the ultimate nightmare.

11.  The desire not to cause any trouble is a powerful motivating force in British society.

12. British may come across to Americans as cold and even dissembling (lying).