Cultural context of conflicts

Cultural context of conflicts
Blog Entry 002 for week 7.
The cultural context of conflicts; there are 2 types which are cultural differences and gender difference respectively. Culturally, conflicts centres on the cause that people fight for and the right ways of handling the conflict. This is further divided in to 2 orientation; collectivist and individualist. Collectivist members tend to avoid conflict to save face.
Example,
In a collectionist culture, it is forbidden to correct another person bluntly as face saving is highly practised. Thus, conflict might arise should such behaviour been shown for it is considered rude culturally.

Posted by Wan Hani Arifah B0802457