{"id":1358,"date":"2012-08-04T13:20:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T13:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2024-01-29T12:11:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T17:11:03","slug":"costa-rica-cultural-dimensions-and-international-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/costa-rica-cultural-dimensions-and-international-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rica &#8211; Cultural Dimensions and International Business by Adrian Mack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG3861.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1361 alignleft\" title=\"IMG386\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG3861-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On August 2, 2012, it was El dia de la Virgin or in English \u201cVirgin of the Angels\u201d, a national holiday in Costa Rica. During the first half of the day, we met in the conference room of the hotel and Professor Fernandez lectured to the group about Hofstede\u2019s Cultural Dimensions. According to Hofstede, there are Five Dimensions of Culture:\u00a0 Power Distance (PD), Individualism (IND), Masculinity (MAS), Uncertain Avoidance (UAI), and Long Term Orientation (LTO).<\/p>\n<p>During the afternoon, the class had returned back to the conference room and Professor Fernandez showed videos regarding several types of international lessons and multicultural key points.\u00a0 After each video, we had discussions relating to the difference between the various international cultures.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the lectures, the class and the Professor walked to a nearby restaurant and ate dinner. After dinner we all returned to hotel and ended the day.\u00a0 We all had a better understanding of how to plan, run, and conduct business in a foreign country without offending the consumer, both countries, or ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On August 2, 2012, it was El dia de la Virgin or in English \u201cVirgin of the Angels\u201d, a national holiday in Costa Rica. During the first half of the day, we met in the conference room of the hotel and Professor Fernandez lectured to the group about Hofstede\u2019s Cultural Dimensions. According to Hofstede, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/costa-rica-cultural-dimensions-and-international-business\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Costa Rica &#8211; Cultural Dimensions and International Business by Adrian Mack<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[22,7],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costa-rica-business","category-study-abroad","tag-costa-rica-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22167,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/22167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}