Cultures Around The World Make Decisions

Exercise #4

        When striking an example on precision when it comes to time, or even driving in most cases, whom better than the German to give praise to? My choice, which is to mention the dimensions that the German people stand out and excel in such as; planning, accountability and status, is purely based on the respect I hold for the German society. 

        When planning, they are known to side strictly with time over people, which supports the fact that they consider individual accountability more just than one that involves the community. Their respect of achieved status over an ascribed one makes them more worthy of the respect they demand. Nevertheless, they still hold respect for ascribed statuses, regardless.

A short story:

                A German/Russian childhood friend has gotten used to the way things work here in the UAE, and they like to always remind us that they were born and raised here, which gives them the right to be flexible about their German-like behavior. Although our dear friend likes to brag about how they are very flexible, in reality they only believe they are because of how they’re compared to their German-borne relatives.

        They came late to a movie once, or so they say, since the lights in the cinema were dimmed and the advertisements had just started playing. And, to this day, they still believe they are very flexible (-flexible in comparison to Germans in general that is).