Culture difference and Educational Cooperation. Culture exists in every xxxxxx of the world, difference of culture appears when people from different background get together, ways of talking and thinking, values, religions are all different. Cultural shock is the most common situation international students met when they start a new life in strange studying environment. As to how these cultural difference influence educational cooperation, we had better turn our eyes back to Xxxxxxxx’s Culturedimensiontheory(The four dimensions mentioned above). PD, to some extent, determines the basis of culture within organizations. Every organization has a hierarchy, In culture or organization with high power distance, the organizational hierarchy is obvious. There is a connection between managers and their subordinates. Differing from high power distance organizations, low power distance organizations usually have a flat organizational structure (Xx, 2006). Flat hierarchy structure within organization means less management layers, more comfortable working atmosphere and unobstructed communication channel. Strict and deep hierarchy is on another end, more control, less communication between different layers and so on. It is also true for schools. When shifting from flat hierarchical culture to stick one, people will feel depressed and uncomfortable, but they will good when people jump from xxxxxx hierarchical culture to flat one. For students, professors and researchers, this kind of situations happens a lot to them if they join the international exchange program. People has quite different styles of living and solving problems. Individualists believe in independence and personal capacities. The individualists admire hero and have much affections towards heroism. While collectivism is another situation which the power of group are highly stressed and valued. Collectivists, however, strongly insist that the energy released by group is much more than simple sum of power given out by individuals. People with high individualistic values tend to care about self-actualization and career progress in the organization, whereas people with low individualistic values tend to value organizational benefits more than their own interests (Xx, 2006).This difference of dealing with problems of head management, international office and students will cause many disagreements and controversies. Thus it is necessary to explore the mechanism of difference in IDV in affecting educational cooperation. Masculinity and Femininity are two type...
