ISPM/ICC/GROUP/7

  The hall models For my particular country which is Italy I feel like there is a lot of speculation and sometimes prejudice for weather Italian are really as the rest of the world describes them. Using the hall model, we as a group, were able to conclude that Italians in general are a high context culture as their physical context of the messages often carries a great deal of importance. Some aspect reported on the model such as space ad time are very accurate as they describe perfectly how our different cultures behave and how our day-to-day approaches and manners with other people are. In Italy for example we tend to be very friendly and chill whether in other country the phase of “breaking the ice” into the process of building friendship can take more time as other cultures might feel uncomfortable in opening up straight away. Regarding the action chains, although through the technologies advantages everything is getting a little faster in terms of time and efficiency, Italy is s

  So basically, we met in front of Binnenhof a public office with a long history and there was food truck festival going on around that area. We could have met somewhere else like indoor pub and bar but I ran into this place first and I thought this wasn’t a day to miss all lively atmosphere of the city and told other group members to meet up at this place.   The place literally fit ICC in cultural terms with lots of food truck from all different cultures. We had lovely beers and Armenian BBQ along with Japanese pancake and shared each other’s culture. I asked the guys how to say “cheers” in each other’s languages. In Italian it was “salute”, in German “Prost”, and in Ukrainian, “Na zdorovia”, along with my own language, in Korean, “Jjan”.     I found out Germany, Ukraine, and Italia all has sort of individualistic culture, even though Italia showed the least, whereas, Ukraine showed the most in terms of scale. I, as Korean, am aware of basic difference becau

. My name is Younghoon Park from South Korea, and I am 27. I speak Korean and English at the moment, but I am willing to learn Dutch since I am going to study at Netherlands for a while, so in order to familiarize more to this country, I feel the need to know more about Dutch. My hobby is quite usual like most of other guys. I like playing sports, mostly football to be honest and additionally tennis. I’ve learned tennis 16 years ago and I quite enjoyed it, but I haven’t played for a long time so I might become rusty. Moreover, little bit of bike riding and listening to music. . My name is Oleksandr. I am 18 years old, and I am from Ukraine. I can speak 3 languages - Ukrainian, Russian and English. I enjoy doing different kind of sports. My favorites are martial arts, almost all of them, but I also like to play football sometimes. . My name is Riccardo Villa, I`m 19 years old and I`m from Italy. I lived In Italy until I was 14 then I moved to Dubai with my family following my dad`