Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Overview
Countr
Company Product Brand Name/Slogan y Meaning
KFC Fast Food Finger licking good China Eat your fingers off
Pepsi brings you back to Pepsi brings your ancestors
Pepsi Beverage life China back from grave
Low-context culture:
Messages are explicit
Words carry most of the information in communication
United States, Switzerland, Germany
High- and Low-Context Cultures
High-context culture
Less information is contained in the verbal part of the message
More information resides in the context of communication
(background, associations, basic values of communicators)
Japan, Saudi Arabia, China
High- and Low-Context Cultures
Challenges in:
Verbal communication
Non-verbal communication
You can buy in your home-country language but you need to learn
your customers language to sell.
Analytical Approaches to Cultural Factors (1)