Essay About Cultural Factors And Todays Global World

Trust in Intercultural EncountersABSTRACTIn todays global world, trust in intercultural encounters plays an important keyrole for success in business and personal relationships. In this study, theargument is that trust in intercultural context has several interpretations that arefaced with many cultural factors which should be taken into account wheninteracting with others from different cultures.First, the definitions and concepts of trust in general are explained. Then, twotheories are used for the determination of trust in intercultural context. The firstexplanation by Schödel (2005) declared trust linked with the model of thecultural dimensions according to Hofstede (1991). The second model byFukuyama (1995) divides societies into low-trust-societies and high-trustsocieties.After giving an insight into the current status of research on trust, the threephases-model of Petermann (1996) describes how trust can be built inintercultural encounters.TABLE OF CONTENTS

Trust to be trusted in the community, and a variety of other social relationships including family relationships, interpersonal relationships, sexual and physical contact, and health and safety issues is of critical importance[4]. According to a survey of 500 European-American professionals (N = 7) in 1986—1991, 56% of respondents thought in this context, that they would trust a foreign country with good information or advice regarding their personal lives. A similar percentage thought that they would trust a friend or relative if the acquaintance took their opinion in their home country with great care and sensitivity[5].A survey of 20 American respondents with a mean age of 32 year‐olds (n = 16) revealed that 51% of respondents believed that they had confidence in information on a particular relationship(s) or at least a specific group of them[6], an overwhelming majority of whom were women(n = 11)[7]. In 1988, the Canadian Research Council(CRC) put its estimate at the trust of 41%[8], based in part on a survey conducted in 1989 by a group of self‐reported Canadian college students[9]. The question asked respondents about the relationships between other individuals, and, based on the response, the degree of trust between individuals[10]. The main factor distinguishing trust between men and women is social support but, according to the respondents, there is also a higher understanding between those.The trust between the two may depend on specific social conditions. In one study, 47 percent of the respondents judged that children of the same gender had a better idea than adults on certain issues, in this sense, a trust to be invested in one’s children. A study by Ritter and coworkers in 1991 concluded that many people’s personal beliefs or attitudes are associated with personal trust. This trust is based on understanding and feeling good about one’s own personal information; it is more complicated than such attitudes are[11].Somewhat surprisingly, while 95% of the world’s educated adults had a higher trust in Intercultural Encounters, more of them had an unfavorable view of those in general (48%) (p < 0.0001 and Figure 3), compared to 53%.The role of individual knowledge as the main factor in this trust problem is not well defined but a further question remains: in light of the above, how does the research in this area contribute to the understanding of social factors that could influence interpersonal trust?One source of research on this topic is the study of social and political attitudes between adults in a particular time period [10, 16]. It has been suggested that individual characteristics such as school attendance, job satisfaction, income, sex (e.g., married, unmarried, or separated from parents), etc. could influence how trustworthy one's self‐reported trust is across the period [9, 16], with the best predictor of trust in interpersonal interactions being educational attainment[10-11]. A similar phenomenon can be seen in people being questioned about personal financial decisions or about medical problems at any time [8]. However, it is clear that the effect of education and religion does not affect trust between individuals.A recent study suggests that education does matter of the person's degree or level of personality differentiation between people and, as such, the effects of this type of information on the trust issue vary. In another study of 22 Canadian individuals, who had become parents by birth [12], they said children of single parents influenced how closely they interacted with their children and that their involvement in the children's education increased their understanding of the relationship[13]. Thus, the more education the children had [14], the less direct the influence of information about the relationship[15].In contrast to the trust problem and some other cultural factors which are considered for the estimation as factors affecting the trust problem, the study of trust between participants aged 16-49 in general does not focus on this