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1、Lawrence Liu English 3: Information and Cultural Literacy 2108613 1. Evaluate the relevance of one model of culture in relation to today s hyper-connected world. Since 20th century, with the advancement of technology, the world has become much hyper-connected in terms of culture and communication. T

2、he relationship and distance between cultures and nations are getting closer and closer since then. Different cultures from countries all around the world started to integrate with each other due to the rise of globalization. For instance, some people arguethat Asian countries cultures, such as Chin

3、a, changed from past oriented to present or future oriented culture. Although the time (past) orientation model of culture was closely related to China throughout the past hundreds of years, the relevance and importance of it started to decline in today hyper connected world as it no longer fully ap

4、plies to the current global and national (Chinese) culture. In the following paragraphs, this essay will be explaining how past orientation was closely related to its culture in the past, then come up with mentioning how the orientation basis changes from past to present and future. Last but not lea

5、st, the essay will be discussing the reason why the oriented model changes through time and its relativity with Chinese culture and lifestyle in modern days. China, a country which has lots of historical background, is highly relevant to the Hofstede s va Dluiemensions. According to Hofstede G (2001

6、), societies with past oriented are more concerned with traditional values and ways of doing things. In general, past-oriented cultures have a strong belief in the significance of prior events like rituals and traditions, which are the guidelines for making decisions. China is a good example to show

7、 how time orientation is deeply related to its culture. Being one of the four ancient civilizations, Chinese culture has a very complex structure which consists of a past oriented basis. Throughout more than 5,000 years of civilizations, lots of traditions and ceremonials have been preserved and mad

8、e a spectacular contribution to its society. Therefore, its culture formed a strong linkage with the time orientation model. There is an ancient Chinese proverb which states “The past is as clear as a mirror, the future as dark as lacque” rB. esides, even though with its fast growing economy, lots o

9、f historical monuments still exist and preserved in Beijing, the capital of China. Apart from culture, the lifestyle of Chinese also shows the indestructible connection with the time orientation model. For instance, Chinese parents used fables or ancient stories, which have been passed on from gener

10、ation to generation throughout hundreds of years, to give moral education to their offspring. Moreover, ancient Chinese peasants and farmers usually predict the Lawrence Liu English 3: Information and Cultural Literacy 2108613 weather according to the past climate and study.These examples show the e

11、vidence that past Chinese society relies much on the previous events and history rather than counting on the present and predicting the unknown future. All in all, this implies that the past oriented model of culture had an unbreakable bonding with the Chinese culture and helped contributing the lif

12、estyle of the past Chinese society and people. However, as time passes, the correlation between global cultures has become shortened. It is mainly caused by cutting down the cost and the distance through the improvement of technology. Through technological advancement, culture has been moving beyond

13、 borders and boundaries and no longer sticks to its neighboring area, transforming through locations the shared meanings of culture. Through the process of sharing the concepts and values of one culture to another ultimately leads to interconnectedness between various populations from diverse cultur

14、es. As a result, Chinese culture started to merge with others from America and Europe nations which have different time orientation models. Thus the significance and importance of the past orientation declined. The variations of the time orientation model directly alter the lifestyles of most of the

15、 Chinese. One of the most obvious changes is that people stopped always using history and passed events as a reference, while they tend to estimate what is going to happen and try to do some more planning.Refer to Syed and Joyce Zafar from the Cultural Diversity Group (2010), they stated that most o

16、f the European and American countries have the time orientation of present or future.For example, because of the influence of the United States future oriented ideology, citizens or society became less aware of the past, they started to think that the bygones areunchangeable and couldn bte reversed.

17、In modern days, since the past study or the traditions are not precise enough, peasants and farmers are now relying on the weather forecast and no longer count on their traditional methods. Through the comparison between the prediction of the weather in the past and present, it suggests that even th

18、ough the past orientation has been influencing the Chinese lifestyle for more than thousands of years, under the rise of cultural globalization in nowadays hyper connected world, its prominence started to fade out while the present and future orientation started to gain their positions. There are se

19、veral contributing factors which caused Chinas time orientation relativity change through time. Firstly, it is mainly because the way of communication has changed. In the past, the communication of people are discrete, the speed of the communication are much slower than present due to the distance b

20、etween people were a lot further away. From Donald L M (2009), he suggested that the Lawrence Liu English 3: Information and Cultural Literacy 2108613 socialnetworking websites rearrange the whole global communication and culture structure. He stated that “ socianle tworks allow you to reconnectand

21、connect with new and old friends from just about anywhere in the world. There are a number of other social networks. Many of them also are accessible by wireless device”s. He implies that the distance between people around the world are getting closer and closer, people from different cultures and b

22、e easily connected by different social network channels. Secondly, the nature of the country (China) also helped contributing the change and relativity. After World War II, the world split into two separate groups, which are the communists and capitalists. Thec ommunists party which China was belong

23、ed to, had a past oriented basis. People from the nations had to follow the rules set by their former decision maker and they never look for the future. However, after the Soviet Union dissolved in 1990s, nations from communists party started to get influenced by other capitalists countries mainly f

24、raonmd Europe America. Thus this explains why and how their time orientation model of culture st changed in the 21 century. Referring to the Mansour javidan from Harvard Business Review (2007), he conducted a survey on how different countries have their time orientation basis. The result shows the w

25、estern countries like the US, United Kingdom and Canada have a high level of future orientation basis, meanwhile former communists countries such as Russia and China have a low level of future orientation basis. Therefore this implies that background and the history of China also caused the relativi

26、ty of the model of culture change in todays modern world. In conclusion, as the technological improvement in the mid-1990s created a strong influential power to the world, global cultural integration is caused. Cultures and communication between countries merged together and have a mixed time orient

27、ed basis. For example, due to its unique history and background, Chinsa past orientation concept was influenced by other countries and turned to multi time orientated. Although the past time orientation model of culture no longer fully applies to current hyper connected world, it still has its influ

28、ence and relevance to chinas culture, and the importance and significance of it cannot be neglected. Lawrence Liu English 3: Information and Cultural Literacy 2108613 Reference: Anonym, 2008. An Analysis of Market Entry into the Peoples Republic of China under consideration of Cultural Value Dimensi

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