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The University of Queensland

IBUS2309:

Assignment 2: Individual Cross cultural Incident Analysis

Incident, 4 alternative explanations, research, rationales for the best explanation.

Weighting: 25%

Deadline: 17^th October 2024

Word count: 2000

Overview

Your task is to describe, propose causes, and analyse an actual cross-cultural clash incident from your own experience or vicariously. The task is not simply a descriptive exercise! You must then conduct academic research to analyse the cross-cultural clash and the nature or underlying reasons for the clash by using appropriate theories and/or frameworks relevant to the course and/or from other fields.

Assignment (4 parts)

Part 1) In writing, describe a significant incident from your own experience (or vicariously) involving a cross-cultural clash between two or more individuals from different cultures, which has left one (Person A) with the question, “What happened?” Write in the third person, be creative. The incident (Part 1) should not be more than 500 words. The incident should have the following criteria:

1. At least one of the individuals held erroneous assumption(s) about the culture of other individual(s) (both individuals can have erroneous assumptions) and proceeded to say or do something that was culturally incorrect.
2. The mistaken behaviour of the first person (Person A) was followed by a response from the person(s) of the second culture (Person B, can be more than one individual), which was not understood by the first person (Person A) and which he or she found disconcerting or upsetting, wondering what has happened. For example:

At a function, Joe from Australia (Person A) was being introduced by his friend to Arya (Person B), who just hugged Joe’s friend. In meeting Arya for the first time, Joe attempted to shake Arya’s hand – she seemed shocked and stepped back. Joe’s reaction was also shock, wondering what happened, and thought …she must not like me.

Part 2) Provide 4 possible and logical explanations for why the incident occurred, with one being the best explanation (most probable) for the cross-cultural clash. Compose each of the possible explanations carefully and attempt to render each one plausible. Each of the four possible explanations should not exceed 75 words. Thus, Part 2 should not exceed 300 words in total; see the word count outline below. For example:

(A) Arya is haphephobic.

(B) Arya does not like Joe.

(C) Arya’s societal culture prohibits males and females from touching.

(D) Arya saw Joe lick his fingers after eating a canapé.

Part 3) Based on academic research and facts, provide a comprehensive cross-cultural analysis of the incident, which explains the behaviours you described from both people’s perspectives (briefly from Joe’s perspective and more detailed from Arya’s perspective). Use appropriate theories and/or frameworks relevant to the course and/or from other fields, and evidence to show how the cross- cultural clash could have occurred, thus why all four possible explanations are plausible. Limit this Part 3 to no more than 1000 words,but you may want to allocate the largest portion of the research to the most probable explanation.

Part 4) Write four paragraphs, a narrative of each of the four possible explanations, highlighting the evidence presented in Part 3 toshow why one is the correct or best answer and why the other three explanations are not correct. Each of the four narratives should be approximately 150 words, but again but you may want to allocate the largest portion to the correct or best explanation and the other three explanations shorter. In short, Part 4 should not exceed 600 words in total.

Example Outline

1) Incident (approximately 350-500 words).

2) Explanation A (approximately 50-75 words); Explanation B (approximately 50-75 words) Explanation C (approximately 50-75 words); Explanation D (approximately 50-75 words).

3) Comprehensive, research-based cross-cultural analysis of the incident (less than 1000 words)

4) Rationale A, why or why this option is not the best explanation (approximately 100-150 words); Rationale B, why or why this option is not the best explanation (approximately 100-150 words); Rationale C, why or why this option is not the best explanation (approximately 100-150 words); Rationale D, why or why this option is not the best explanation (approximately 100-150 words).

This assessment task evaluates students’ abilities, skills, and knowledge without the aid of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Students are advised that the use of AI technologies to develop responses is strictly prohibited and may constitute student misconduct under the Student Code of Conduct.

 

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