Goodbye to Comm 340
Alas, it is now December, and my time in this class on intercultural communication has come to an end. Although I am considering maintaining this blog because I have put […]
Alas, it is now December, and my time in this class on intercultural communication has come to an end. Although I am considering maintaining this blog because I have put […]
As my look into Guatemalan culture nears its end, I thought it would be fitting to use my final Guatemalan blog as a means for drawing attention to the needs […]
Conflict in the workplace. The very idea of it may send anxious and negative thoughts through our minds, and yet it is an inevitable part of working within an individualist […]
I have mentioned a bit before about the importance of dressing properly in Guatemala, tying it into the country’s high uncertainty avoidance and power distance scores as defined by Hofstede’s […]
After years of dedicated study in a foreign language- the hours spent cramming vocabulary, perfecting pronunciation, learning the ins and outs of verb tenses and inflictions- you finally feel confident […]
With Halloween just around the corner, it is appropriate that this week’s blog deals with the distinctively Guatemalan horror tale of El Sombrerón, or the man in the large […]
In this blog I will explore Guatemalan culture using the cultural value dimensions developed by Geert Hofstede as a means for comparing cultures on the basis of five cluster values: […]
As you probably already know, Guatemala, like most of the countries in Central America, uses Spanish as its official language. However, as any Spanish major will tell you, each country […]
The Republic of Guatemala is a small but beautiful nation that borders Mexico to the south in Central America. Guatemala City serves as its capital, and geographically it is mountainous […]
Although this should probably be a pretty simple topic to blog about, I’m hesitant for two reasons. First, I am not sure how I feel about sharing something this personal […]