Different cultures at the food truck festival
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 because I’m from fairly collectivistic country, though I’ve
been staying abroad for a while so wasn’t hard for me to blend in to Western
culture.
Moving on, Jan from Germany shared he’s country
is doing-orientated, along with Oleksander from Ukraine as Jan was looking for
a job already and Oleksander, I knew him for a while and he wanted to make more
allowance so recently found a job as a Taekwondo lecturer. They were from task
orientated culture. Riccardo, was from Italia, country where lots of historical
heritages are stored and they had somewhat past-orientated culture, with chill
vibe and value relationship more. In Korea, due to its fast developing economy,
has more of future orientated social trend, shows strong tendency of “live to
work” culture.
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