... in multinational enterprises. Finally, this essay takes IKEA as an example to illustrate that what strategies IKEA have altered and applied while exploring the untapped market in China. 2.0 Literature Review According to Wild.J and Wild.K (2014), culture can be divided into eight components, namely aesthetics, values and attitudes, manners and customs ... in to folk custom and popular custom. For example, the wearing of turbans by Muslims in south Asia and having dumplings in Spring Festival in China are both folk customs. A popular custom is behavior shared by a heterogeneous group or b...

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... in multinational enterprises. Finally, this essay takes IKEA as an example to illustrate that what strategies IKEA have altered and applied while exploring the untapped market in China. 2.0 Literature Review According to Wild.J and Wild.K (2014), culture can be divided into eight components, namely aesthetics, values and attitudes, manners and customs ... in to folk custom and popular custom. For example, the wearing of turbans by Muslims in south Asia and having dumplings in Spring Festival in China are both folk customs. A popular custom is behavior shared by a heterogeneous group or b...

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... only imperative for international marketing effectiveness but also for marketing to ethnic populations domestically (Reese 1998). A research conducted by the author (Tian 1987) in a minority region in China (a tradition-based culture) indicates that culture influences consumer behavior regarding products distribution. It is noted that the cultural orientation of the ethnic group consumers has helped to establish and maintain ... However, in spite of some conflicts, there are societies in where traditional market bazaars continue to survive while more efficient supermarket structure exist...

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... next phase of the ride Chinese dragons capture your attention and are presented in such a way that an impressionable youth would get the idea that China is actually a place filled with dragons roaming the streets. As the ride comes to an end visitors are left at the Bountiful Harvest, ... a store that sells porcelain artifacts that are typical to China plastic figurines of the Great Wall of China and chopsticks as if this great nation of an indescribable historical background has nothing more to offer to the present. At ... foods and exploit their heritage. "The Lotus Blossom Café and ...

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... not necessarily happen on purpose, it began with the barbaric slaves slowly breeding and integrating themselves into the culture. This is not to say China did not have slaves, but for some reasons (mostly nationalistic zeal I suppose) the slaves did not perform an integration as did the Germanic ... nations, they only used the "military" for self-defense and only against Mongols (a blanket term for all barbarians at the time in china). Divine Providence played a huge factor in Chinese government; the Chinese believed that the emperor was mandated from heaven. Supreme executive power was...

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Intercultural competence is very important when traveling to countries that have different beliefs, routines, and way of doing things. Peter Hessler got the opportunity to travel to Fuling, China in order to teach young college students English literature. During his time there he learned a lot about their culture and the many differences between how they do things in Fuling ... because of this situation and while he is talking to his tutor, Teacher Liao, she told him that he was dribbling by NBA standards and not how they play in China (Hessler, pg. 74). Peter got angry and thought that the...

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... my point is that, we Chinese are having a kind of attitude that combined with partially acceptance, partially refusal and partially development. Firstly, we are NOT taking the "whole-refusing" conception. China is an ancient country with a history of more than 5000 years. Because of some historical and geographical reason, as well as the long-standing fabulous substantial and spiritual property ... are still preserving the long-standing tradition via the process of accepting. With the principle of self-center in this process, we have a cultural confidence, which it is, to construct China...

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... over the surface over the world as a whole.[1] They tend to flow out of the European sector and toward the non-European sector, such as Japan, China and Korea. In Blaut's article, he points out that this tendency appears not as a general prejudiced belief, but in a belief of false or inaccurate reality ... civilization to make it meaningful and successful.[2] The second argument that shows Fukuzawa was Eurocentric is that he saw China and Korea in the same way as European did. In his view, China and Korea are old societies and without law enforcement. Also, they do not know how to progre...

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... with their neighbours if they wish to prosper. For example, in 1996 China could not afford to attack Taiwan although Taiwanese was about to declare independence from China because their stock markets were informally tied together. Whenever China threatened Taiwan, Taiwan's stock market would go down and then so would China's. Friedman feels that globalization greatly raises the cost of warfare through economic integration ... ...

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... own definition of Third World, and with most scholarly accepted definitions. The main reason that fills the definition paradox is China. "China, uncomfortable with the prospect of assimilation on the basis of political orientation to a soviet bloc, preferred alignment with the Third World." China continues the paradox now since its rise a superpower, but its forced economic situation which has been thrust upon it ... ...

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... among non-Western, especially Islam civilization will become linked with Confucian civilization and then, threaten the Western civilization. He emphasized that the facts that North Korea and China sell weapons to Islamic countries and China cooperate with Iran in sharing of nuclear technology were symptoms of this. In contrast, Muller (1999) said Huntington failed to mention that the Western powers, especially the ... United Sates, sell 10 times more weapons than North Korea and China do, furthermore, he also asked in return whether it could be said, then, as an union of Islam-Orthodox ...

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... and the various demographics and psychographics they encompass among American travelers. "Ecotourism, Economics and the Environment: Observations from China" by Clem Tisdell speaks of ecotourism in China. It talks about how ecotourism can help countries pay for the high costs of recovering biodiversity. China has found ways to pay for salaries and keep citizens employed while conserving nature (Tisdell 13). Ecotourism also benefits ... ...

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... , the food courts appeals to the young people the most with all varieties of foods available in the original Saigon. Conveniently, people can drop in to grab prepackaged rice noddle dishes, or have a full-service food such as pho (Vietnamese beef noodle soup), or enjoy the fresh-squeezed sugarcane juice. Nighttime entertainment venues draw and fulfill the desire of entertainment and ... ...

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... other family and community members who gather at the cemetery. Families remember the departed by telling stories about them. The meals prepared for these picnics are extravagant, usually featuring meat dishes in spicy sauces, a special egg-batter bread, cookies, chocolate, and sugary confections in a variety of animal or skull shapes. Gravesites or family altars are decorated in large quantities with flowers ... ...

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... . Abnormal behavior cannot be approached universally because there are Culture-bound Syndromes, meaning that a specific condition is only found in a specific culture. For example, Koro is a culturally-bound syndrome in China where men believed that the penis can shrink, become impotent and sterile then cause death. Symptoms include reduction of penile volume due to vasoconstriction in cold temperature and intense anxiety ... . Because this disorder only occurs in China, other diagnostic manuals may not have it. Same with depression, which is more of a common disorder in western culture wh...

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... the social relations of civilizations in the old world from 500 B.C. to 1500 A.D. His Fourfold Cultural Balance theory states there were four distinct zones (Europe, Middle East Africa, India, and China) of civilization development that were marked by a unique culture. The zones advanced relatively independent of one another. There was no physical border marking the end of one zone and the ... . The Caravan routes traded Middle Eastern African luxury items, such as ostrich feathers and precious metals, with the Europeans. The Spice trade routes traded spices from India to Europe and Chin...

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... . Under-age workers have helped build Apple's products, and the company's suppliers have improperly disposed of hazardous waste and falsified records, according to company reports and advocacy groups that, within China, are often considered reliable, independent monitors. More troubling, the groups say, is some suppliers' disregard for workers' health. Two years ago, 137 workers at an Apple supplier in eastern ... China were injured after they were ordered to use a poisonous chemical to clean iPhone screens. Within seven months last year, two explosions at iPad factories, including in Ch...

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... " (Abe, 1995). Although having had a very unique culture, Japanese are also good at mixing other cultures with theirs As a result of this blending; they come out with their own identity. China was the most importantly influenced. "Buddhist and Confucian philosophy is the basic framework the Japanese use to develop their way of thinking. Buddhist was contributing the way of life. The ... other factors and their relation with culture. Firstly, it was the industrialization process, started with the Meiji restoration that had modernized Japan and helped them avoid foreigner's invasion threat...

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... and political superpower, in a century that was for a long time been best characterized as the USSR-USA century. Equally Asia has been struck by fundamental changes: from the imperial China to the communist China, the Vietnam war, the Korean war, the independence of India, the Iran Iraq war, the Gulf war, etc. Economy plays the most important role or is the main ... ...

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... "Occident" in his essay, Orientalism. Within the book, Said refers to the "Orient" as the Asiatic regions east of Europe - specifically the Muslim Orient - such as Egypt, Iraq, Iran, India, China, and Japan (1-2). By "Occident", Said refers to those of Britain, France, and recently the United States - the West (11). As an academic scholar born in the Orient regions, Said noticed ... analysis, Said fails to specifically refer to the Oriental countries other than those of the Near Orient. His examples did not include any reference to countries such as Japan or China, countries that have a...

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... time goes on, as long as they are willing to adapt. So many have fallen short of this which has resulted in turmoil for the cultural sector (I'm looking at you, China). Italy will not be in the same boat....

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... difficult to establish a Singaporean identity due to the diverse cultural backgrounds of Singaporeans and foreigners alike. Many Singaporeans in the modern society are descendants of migrants from abroad, such as China and India. These people would be endowed with diverse family history, religions, and cultural practices. This leads to differing cultural backgrounds and in such situation, it is hard for everyone ... ...

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... emojis. Eventually, we might enable people to communicate more by using symbols that are familiar and appropriate for a particular culture. Thus, if an American wants to communicate with someone from China, the American could go to the Chinese emojis menu and select the emojis that Chinese speaker would understand. By creating a way for emojis users to contribute to the emoji alphabet ... ...

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... realized as a kind of dependence by other country like America. While more American generations have been trained to be independent, more young people from Asian countries such as Vietnam and China have been more dependent on traditional family values by their parents. On the other hand, it can't be denied that the independence indicates the self-responsibility as well as respect ... ...

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... extremely popular among tourists. Therefore, the probability of their willingness to try some goods on and eventually buy them in H&M is much higher. In addition, it should be added that China nowadays appears the biggest H&M market, where expanding shows the highest figures. In 2013, additional 205 stores were launched there. Nowadays, the company H&M is extremely competitive in the market, rivaling with ... ...

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