66 Ways We Differ
- How we define “proper” behavior
- How and when we greet each other
- What’s considered common courtesy
- What’s polite and impolite
- How closely we stand to each other
- Holidays we celebrate and how we celebrate them
- How we show respect and disrespect
- How and when we use money, credit, and bartering
- The range in which we negotiate
- What is modest or risqué
- What is embarrassing or shameful
- What makes us feel good and what depresses us
- What makes us proud and what shames us
- What, when and how we eat and drink
- What we wear, and when and where we wear it
- How we see and behave toward sickness and health
- How and when we seek and use health services
- What we find funny or sad
- How and when we use means of transportation
- What we buy and sell and when, how and with whom we do it
- When, where and how we sit and stand
- If, how and when we touch each other
- What we believe
- What we value
- What makes “common sense”
- What are worthwhile goals in life
- What is beautiful or ugly
- The nature of God and other religious beliefs
- What we believe we need and don’t need
- Whether privacy is desirable or undesirable
- Who makes what decisions and in what circumstances
- Whether a person controls his/her own life or whether fate determines it
- What should be communicated directly or indirectly
- What or who is clean or dirty
- What language, dialect and tone of voice we use
- To whom we speak and to whom not
- The role of the individual
- The roles of men and women and how each should behave
- The roles parents and children and how each should behave
- The importance of harmony in a group
- The importance of competition between individuals
- Social class
- Educational levels
- Hierarchy in business relationships
- How time is understood and used
- Whether schedules are important or unimportant
- The importance of tradition and rituals
- How often we smile, whom we smile at, what it means when we smile
- How strangers interact
- How we interact with a person in authority
- How we interact with a person serving us, e.g., in a restaurant
- Relationships and obligations between friends
- Relationships and obligations toward extended family members and relatives
- Facial expressions, and other nonverbal behavior and gestures and when they are used
- Crowd or audience behaviors
- The importance of preparing for the future
- How we see old age and value elders
- Whether conversation should be formal or informal
- What should be said: what left unsaid
- Whether, when and how and with whom we make “small talk”
- How we perceive what is friendly and unfriendly
- How open or guarded we are with information
- What behavior is ethical and not ethical
- How, whom and how much we entertain
- How or whether we take turns, stand line, etc.
- How often we change jobs or move to a new house, where and why
Source: http://interculturaltoolkit.fi/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/66-ways-we-differ.pdf
