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The purpose of this report is to understand the differences in the mindset and the thought process of Chinese people thinking, their behaviour and also the decision making process that the people undergo. This report would help in reducing the misunderstandings between cultures and would enhance inter personal growth. In this report we enhance the Guanxi, Renqing and Mianzi which are 3 of the very dominating cultural rules and social relationships in the Chinese culture. (Khan, Amna, Judith Zolkiewski, and John Murphy. "Favour and opportunity: renqing in Chinese business relationships." Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 31, no. 2 (2016))
Here to understand the differences in the rules and the regulations we would understand by asking some specific questions which are:
1. Do Guanzi, Renqing and Mianzi in china have different rules? If yes, what are they?
2. In what way and matter does it affect the working of the daily lives of the Chinese people
3. If they are different from other social exchange rules, how and why are they different than the other western cultures
Introduction
Culture in a country or in a continent is one thing that has been running since ages now. Culture is perceived to be a socially constructed patterns of perceptions, behaviours and the values which are shared and believed to be constructed among a group of people and they involve a sense of belonging and emotional attachment to the people in that group. With growing cultural phenomenon and globalization at such a rapid pace, we see more and more different phenomena which includes thinking patters, principles of values which has been changed due to the global inter-culture mixture.
There are a lot of misunderstandings between cultures and the mixture of these misunderstandings cause a ripple effect in the cultural domain. There have been multiple studies regarding the differences in culture among the Chinese and the western culture and they have together pinpointed out to one of the most outstanding parts among the hurdles that is with respect to cultural differences and intercultural communications. The resent reviews in the understanding of the cultures have shown some inconsistencies in the universal rules of exchange and the distribution of resources among the people in the society group. (Barbalet, Jack. "Guanxi as social exchange: Emotions, power and corruption." Sociology (2017): ) The scholars in the inter cultural domain have found out that the cultures among UK and China could easily collapse because of the misunderstandings and not knowing or understanding of the Chinese principles of Renqing or Mianzi and also the Chinese social relationship, Guanxi. There have been many differences in the western world culture and the Chinese culture and a thought has been provoked if the working of the professional relationships in the Chinese and the western culture could be done on the same base platform or not. Chinese concepts such as Renqing, Mianzi and Guanxi must be applied in the professional as well as social relationships.
The conclusion from that study was that the relationships between the nations could easily fall apart if the UK did not follow the social form of Guanxi and there would be multiple conflicts which would jeopardise the relationships between the Chinese and the UK companies which would affect the economies eventually.
While agreeing to the most universal 3 rules regarding the social conduct of exchange and the distribution of resources there would be a gap in explaining certain behaviours and the decision making process in some of the special cultures such as China. It is unique to notice that there were times when the Chinese people were trying to change the negative Chinese values of traditional base and were trying to change the society at whole to make the society more populist based by the introduction of the western culture and following the western democracy, science, culture and also other aspects. This movement is known as ‘May Fourth Movement’ also popularly known by the New Culture Movement still could not move the base of the very basis of the Chinese culture therefore, even the Chinese culture is far away from the previous political and the social leaders who were associated with the movement and also away from those countries from which the culture was about to be mimicked into the Chinese culture. There can be severe misunderstandings and issue among the nations and the industries which ply among the nations due to intercultural misunderstandings and encounters. While agreeing to the most universal 3 rules regarding the social conduct of exchange and the distribution of resources there would be a gap in explaining certain behaviours and the decision making process in some of the special cultures such as China
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According to the literature and the literal Chinese to English conversion, Relationship is the closest translation of the word in the English language. Instead of relationship, relation can...
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