Week Four Assignment: Local, Regional, And National Cultural Profile

This study source was downloaded by 100000865965430 from CourseHero.com on 07-12-2023 15:52:02 GMT -05:00https://www.coursehero.com/file/205417249/COM370-Intercultural-Communicaiton-Week-4-Assignment-Ralphediteddocx/ Running head: CULTURAL PROFILE Week Four Assignment: Local, Regional, and National Cultural ProfileRaphael JacksonCOM370 Intercultural CommunicationProfessor Darin YoungFebruary 14, 2022This study source was downloaded by 100000865965430 from CourseHero.com on 07-12-2023 15:52:02 GMT -05:00https://www.coursehero.com/file/205417249/COM370-Intercultural-Communicaiton-Week-4-Assignment-Ralphediteddocx/2CULTURAL PROFILE Culture, a mind-constructed category, varies between the different social systems that we dealwith daily. It is how the collective thinks, feels, acts, and just is according to its anthropologic definition and as Hofstede and Minkov (2010) maintain "the collective programming of the mind" that helps us tell one set of group members from another set (as cited by Hofstede, 2011). The differing social systems can be comprised of a large group such as a country or nation and then split into smaller subcultures or subgroups that can range from states, cities, neighborhoods,and/or communities. The larger pictures make me a member of the United States, but my subgroups break down into such groups like from the state of Wisconsin, the city of Milwaukee, and the smaller community of the Northside. Every social system that I meet influences my cultural profile whether they have similar or differing characteristics. The cultural composition of my city,