Cultural Diversity - Final Reflection

Part 1

            Intro

I’ve chosen the following dimensions based on my results from the questionnaire; growth, relationship, outlook, destiny, & connecting. The aforementioned dimensions are the most eccentric results of my cultural dimensions report.

1.      Growth

The first dimension we’re going to write about is growth; development in either the personal aspect or the materialistic one. Growth represents one’s interest and preference to either the advancement of personnel or hardware.

2.      Relationship

An interesting dimension is the relationship dimension with the polarities universal, and situational in which it reflects one’s relationship bounds and limitations, where one could either be limiting relationships of a certain field strictly to that within said field or an unbounded relationship where one expands the relationship to fit a large part of one’s life.

3.      Outlook

The thought of whether to find new and innovative ways to accomplish something with great and outstanding success, or study the past traditional ways of doing so in a more stable environment, with less creativity and out of the box thinking than the alternative.

4.      Destiny

Destiny basically portrays whether one is in control of the way their life is going and the steps they take in order to reach out towards what they want and grab it or if one is guided and led by external forces where they would ride along and let the forces shape one’s fortune.

5.      Connecting

The dimension of exclusivity or inclusivity, connecting is an easy way to find out what a person finds socially acceptable, and whether they find it tolerable for others that were not specifically invited to the topic to join in and have an opinion on the matter or not.

Part 2

            Lessons from the Questionnaire Results

                The results show my own personal standing within the group of people who have also participated in the questionnaire and compares it to that. It shows both a personal result and the detailed result which also includes the whole group’s cultural dimension results.

               

1.      Growth

According to the results, I heavily lean towards personal growth over material growth along with almost all the participants with me, which I don’t disagree with at all. I find it extremely important and I strongly support personal over material growth as people are the basis of everything, not material.

2.      Relationship

The report shows that I am almost completely universal with my relationships, unlike many of the people in the group, although I find some relationships hard to make universal I do agree that given the opportunity, I would most likely aim to make any relationship worth having a universal one.

3.      Outlook

In the results, it’s apparent that I’m more innovative than traditional in that sense, which includes me with the majority of the group, and I’d have to agree, because I would much rather come up with an innovative way to reach my goals than follow the traditional path which would lead me to the same achievements as anyone else.

4.      Destiny

In agreement with the results, I find myself to prefer making my own decisions and having my fate in my hands, just like many of the participants, although there are some who are more directed being the minority. It’s extremely difficult for me not to be able to take my own steps at my own time, and do things my own way.

5.      Connecting

As shown in the results, and I do agree ,if I may say, that I am almost entirely inclusive in the way I act towards people, and although not many of the others in the group share the same ideology, I find it more pleasant to be inclusive rather than exclusive.

Part 3

            In 5 Years’ Time

I believe that there’s always space for improvement, and that no one can achieve a state of perfection. Although, I do still believe that a person may be satisfied with the way they are, and whether or not that is a good thing or not depends on the person’s intent in becoming a better person as a whole.

I will most definitely have some major differences in my results in 5 years’ time, not only that, but I strongly believe that some of my ideals and beliefs might shift slightly, and I only hope it’s to the better not worse.

That being said, I would definitely like to see myself grow and improve in all aspects of my life, not only that of a cultural context. I most definitely think that I do need to improve and I will put a lot of effort into that within the next 5 years, and hopefully the remainder of my life, as well.