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I think that is really important to have a good relation with your brothers sisters, parents and other family members. Her in the Netherlands is normal to help your family if they are in troubles. Also being together with your family during Christmas is very important to most of the dutch citizens including me.

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The teacher gave me the role of employee. As employee there where three rules. 1 Don't look your superiors in their eyes. 2 Agree with everything what the superiors say. 3 Let the bosses never lose face. This was hard for me because in my culture you say what you want. You say the truth and it's important to look people in their eyes because it's polite. For me it was in this way pretty hard because i couldn't look them in their eyes. When the trainers came in the class for the first time they started asking questions about why the training wasn't working. They were very direct and that wasnt working with our rules. We noticed that the trainers reacted somtimes pretty annoyed. During this training there were alot of difficulties. I learned from this training that cultural differences can be very difficult with work but you need to deal with them. I learnd during this lesson that people from china for example can react completely different than somebody from our country. TIf you want to deal with this you will need to understand their culture and norms and value's. The real life cross cultural example is one about a chinese friend of my father. They tried to do bussiness but everytime before they start with doing bussiness they need to eat together and talk about their family and about their lifes'. They also always agree with what my father say and try to avoid conflicts. This can be very difficult with trading. After this i realised that it's important to learn about somebody's culture before you completly understand somebody.

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Student name : Casper Arthur
student email: CA.Hendriks1@student.han.nl
student number: 583893
BSP Group: 4
Teacher's name: Rob van Warmenhoven

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I'm Cas im 19 years old studying at the ABS In my free time i like to play volleybal and tennis. Partying is also a important thing for me most of the times on thursday nights.

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Communication
I think that my way of communication is really low context based. This is because I am pretty straight forward. When i talk to people i like to be short and clear. Because I think that this will help to understand the meaning of the message better. This will lead to better results in my eyes and it will save time.
However it's also important that you don't offend people because this won't help you. It's also not polite to be offensive against other people so I'm a low context person but not completly low context.

Time
Almost every dutch person thinks the same about time. This is most of the time based on our low context personality. We even made a saying about this subject. Time is money. This means that wasting time actually wastes money because in the time that you wasted you could also made money. This is why I'm a monochronic person.

Personal Space
Personal space is a important thing for me. But in my case it depends on my mood. For example sometimes I'm really close to people and i like to give people hugs but the other days im just having my distance to people. This just really depends on my mood. It also depends on the person. If i know the person very well i will give the person more attention and i will let the person enter my personal space more.

Nature
Normally i like the nature. But we have a lot of people in our world. So it's impossible to leave nature untouched because if we do this we will not have enough space for everybody who's living on earth. So i think we need to live in harmony with the nature but we also need to dominate it sometimes to survive.

Orientation
I think that doing things is a bit the dutch culture more than being. For example if we are at work we will focus on our work rather than talking about personal cases. This cases will be discussed in your free time. I´m really focused on my work and because of that i´m not really interested in the being of a person during the work. There is plenty of time during the breaks for this.

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In my family it's very important to eat dinner together. During the dinner we talk about our days, make some jokes and of course we eat. This is one of my things that i can't really miss. It's just a social family thing which really belongs to me.

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Real poorness doesn't exist in the Netherlands. That's because the government is taking care of people who can't get enough money to live. I think that helping people is just a way of natural behaviour for me.

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Saving your money and buying the cheapest available products is a well known thing in the Netherlands. People rather save their money. I know that it's common to complain about everything being too expensive. This is a really dutch thing.

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In the Netherlands being tollerant is very important. That leads to the fact that for me it's normal to accept everybody in the way they are. I think that everybody can do whatever he wants. In my country this is pretty normal.

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Below the surface (norms and rules)

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Above the water (visible symbols and behaviour)

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Being honest is very important to me. If somebody lies to me i will not trust him anymore. Because of this telling the truth is more important to me than helping your friends. I think that not being honest only delays the problems which will not help you in the end.

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It's polite in the Netherlands to make eye contact with the person you are talking to. I think that if you don't do this you will be very impolite. A reason for not doing this is if you are shy or if you are hiding something for somebody.

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During the observations it became clear that not everything is meant the way it looks like. This problem is there because of cultural differences. For example Asain people doesn't want to offend you.
An other problem can be that the western people can be to direct which can offend other people. So it can be important to think about cultural differences before you do things because that might help you solving problems.

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In the Netherlands is common to stand up for elder people in the bus, train or in the metro. This is just a way to show respect. Everybody will look at you if you don't stand up for a older person. Being respectful for older persons is very important for me as person

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Our national color is orange. This color is based on one of our first leaders Willem van Oranje(Oranje means Orange). Because of this during National event people are wearing orange clothes.

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If somebody thinks about  our country they will almost everytime think about Amsterdam. In Amsterdam you are allowed to buy weed in a Coffee Shop. This is a unique thing for our country

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A well known thing from my country are the 'stroopwafels'. They are made of syrup and a special kind of biscuit. If somebody thinks about the Netherlands almost inmediatly stroopwafels are in their mind.

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The well known dutch shoes are the so called "klompen". These shoes are made of wood. Most of the time worn by farmers.
Klompen are most of the time painted yellow.

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Being on time is a important thing In the Netherlands. I think that being early is better than being to late. For example if you come over to someone's place for dinner it will shows respect when you are on time. In my eyes being in time for work is also important. If you are too late people will think that they can't rely on you

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The traditional food from my country is stew. We make with almost everything  stews. For example carrot stew and endive stew. The base of this dishes are potatoes, milk and a kind of vegetables all mixed together. You need to eat this together with a so called "rook worst".

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In my culture it's common to greet somebody with 3 kisses on his or her cheek. Even a man kisses a man and a female kisses a female. It's just a way to greet people when you see them. For me it's just a normal way to greet people.