Malaysia

Having an understanding of one's personal culture is the foundation of building an understanding of another culture. It is a person's culture that affects their personal values. These values then affect their attitude toward everything. This attitude then affects the individual's behaviors, which further supports the culture. This cyclical relationship has an individual's culture and actions inextricably intertwined. To further understand my personal culture, I locate my Malaysian culture on various dimensions and describe its characteristics. Included are identification of the culture's key values, accompanied by meaningful behavioral examples. The cultural dimensions are discussed, which seem to be most taken for granted, as well as those which seem to be most contested and/or disputed. Lastly, I identify the United States as the country that appears to be most different from my own culture and discuss how I might frame the contrasting culture, in a way that would improve the...
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