Cultural Difference and Disease By Ms. Anu Mehta

1. CULTURAL DIFFERENCE
&DISEASE
DR. ANU MEHTA

4. Dis-ease

5. U
D
I
N
- Unexpected
- Dramatic
- Isolating
- No Plan

6. CULT +U+RESet of unwritten norms that guide you, and your behavior and gives them sense of what is right
&what is wrong.

7. Culture decides

8. If we can
understand
values
behind a
culture, we
can
understand
people
better
we can
understand
Who they are
and what
they stand
for and
where they
are coming
from, then
we can have
less conflicts

11. Because I love you , I am allowed to punch you

12. I love you, so I worry

13. Behavior’s are driven by culture
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14. HIERARCY

15. EQUALITY

17. It begins in Childhood

18. Go out and play, don’t sit with adults

19. Telling children to stay with adults

20. Asking parents what to do

21. Asking children, what
to do?
Power Distance

22. Individaulism / collectivism

23. Performance

24. Caring

25. Uncertainty avoidance or not
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Lanzer

26. Uncertainty avoidance or not

27. Flexibility

28. Discipline- law is applied in the
same way

31. Abuses
&
Humour

32. What we find offensive,
What we communicate,
What we find funny,
What we find important,
What to say and what not to say,
signifies what culture we come from,
and this we learn at very early stage
of childhood and our socialization.

33. Boss decides the outcome

35. Favor relatives

36. There is no right culture and no wrong culture