Case Question 1: Most aspects of foreign culture, like languages, religion, gender roles, and problem solving strategies, are hard for a casual observer to understand. In what ways do do Hollywood movies affect national culture outside the United States? What aspect of U.S culture do Hollywood films promote around the world ? Can you observe any positive effects of Hollywood movies on world culture? Hollywood movies affect national culture in various ways. In one sense, movies could be characterized as America’s storytellers. Hollywood movies „Americanize“ global values and beliefs ,therefore they in a way diminish national culture traits and adapt and reinforce American customs. People tend to copy the ideas,customs and culture of American people or in other words they tend to acculturate. So called „Americanization“ is …show more content…
In what ways have movies influenced managerial tasks, company activities, and other ways of doing business around the world? Can watching foreign films be an effective way of learning how to do business abroad? Justify your answer. In movies we can learn various customs, etiquette , norms and values that can influence ways of doing business around the world. We can learn in the movies effects of cross-cultural risk and how people manage to negotiate. We can learn and follow up certain country risks- also known as political and economical risks that some certain countries encounter nowadays. Some scenes can create stereotypes that can affect managerial tasks, company activities in a way that they are unconsciously create a fixed thought in our mind about various ethnicities, countries, traits and etc.. In my opinion watching films cannot be an effective way of learning how to do business abroad because movies are a representation of ones thought or impression of how certain meetings and events are done and therefore they could contain stereotypes, cultural metaphore, and