Reflection #11

Reflection #10

Outsourced Reflection #9

Culture Shock
The are many different culture in this world. We saw the difference between the Indian culture and American culture in this movie. There is man called Todd. He lives in Seattle, USA and he works in call center. One day, his manager give him a work to travel to India to teach Indian people and try to develop the education in India but he reject this idea. Then he accept this work and travel to India. We he arrived to India he shocked because he saw a broken walls and poor people and different lifestyle. In Mumbai the weather was hot and crowded. He lost few hours to search for a taxi after that he found a toc toc then he found a transport to go to hotel. He tried to call his X friend to alleviate suffering but some one answer this call so he felt anguish. Todd arrived in work place and saw a destruction and poor building. So he shouted in the face of his friend called Puro. Then he tried to developed the education and he success. After many days his manager came to India to saw Todd what he done. Finally, he finished his work but suddenly the company closed.    

Exercise #8

Exercise # 8

Cultural Dimensions in Outsourced

As you watch the film, answer the questions and write down any examples of different cultural dimensions. This will help you with your reflection.

Cultural Dimension	Character Todd, Puro, Aisha or other	Outsourced Scene or Circumstance
Low-context culture	Todd and his boss	Office
High-context culture	Aisha	Office in India
Individualism	Indian Taxi guy	Airport
Collectivism	Indian Taxi were fighting	Airport
Low power distance	Todd and his boss	Office
High power distance	Puro with Todd	Office
Uncertainty tolerance	Todd and his boss	Office
Uncertainty avoidance	Aisha with Todd	India
Task orientation	Puro	Administration
Social orientation	Aisha	India

Reflection

Create a reflection about the movie Outsourced using the PowerPoint I give you. Show that you really understand the above cultural concepts.

1. As soon as Todd arrives, he experiences the discomfort of being disoriented in a
strange new place. What happens at the airport?  He struggled trying to walk through the huge crowed at the airport, which was an abnormal scene for him. Then he got annoyed by all the taxi drivers around him, who were fighting over him

2. When a friendly traveler helps him get on the train, what does he tell him to do?He advised him to jump into the train


3. When he gets on the train, he cannot find an empty seat. How is this problem
solved for him? How might this be a cultural solution? The young kid offered him his seat and then sat in his lap, because of the high population in india people are used to such a solution such as sharing seats, standing and squeezing in the train cabins.

4. As any exchange student, he has a lot of experiences trying new food. His first
encounter is with an iced drink. What happens? He got stomach ache, and got sick because of the polluted water used in the iced drink.

5. First encounters with a culture can be shocking – Todd sees crowded streets with
cows, noise, and a man urinating in the street. But how does his host describe the
city? “Bombay is terrible, but here it’s very clean”

6. Even though the host Puro speaks English, Todd uses American slang a lot
without thinking. So as not to insult Puro, what does he say the meaning of
Schmuck is?  That means like a nice guy

7. Todd wants to check in to a hotel. But Puro insists he comes to a boarding house.
What is the reason he gives Todd? That he will feel lonely if he stays by himself in the hotel.

8. As soon as they meet, Aunti Ji starts asking very intimate questions that
Americans who have just met would never ask. What kind of things does she ask?
What does your father do, are you married, what’s your salary, do you have a girlfriend? Why did you break up?

9. During his first conversation with Aunti Ji he makes two big mistakes. What are
they? He ate with his left hand which considered not clean in india and he placed the same hand he ate with back in the food

10. The Golden Rule says do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That
means his Indian hosts and friends are trying to make him comfortable the way
they would be comfortable. How does this apply when the servant is preparing
tea for Todd? She poured the tea for him and even put sugar just the way they do.

Exercise #7

Today in our presentation we talked about key differences between low and high power distance societies and we covered it and shared a lot of points with our group members.

I talked about inequalities among people are expected and desired and respect is basic and lifelong virtue.  We should equality between people and we must respect the poor people and rich people because there is no different between them.