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Social status from personal or organization achievement vs. community standing & importance to others Impersonal social systems vs. personalized contact
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MONOCHRONIC vs. POLYCHRONIC CULTURES
• Two contrasting global lifestyles• Hurry-worry personal productivity vs. family responsibilities • Institutionalized vs. do-it-yourself cultures• Personal isolation/focus to promote productivity vs. people-focused social interaction
• Social status from personal or organization achievement vs. community standing & importance to others• Impersonal social systems vs. personalized contact
-Me vs. We-“Identity equals what you do”
-“Who you are equals what you do/did”
-Hurry-worry lifestyle
-Polychronic: Me in We-Face = interdependency = need people (we)
-No institutions and dependence on family
-Extended > nuclear family
P
MR. BASEBALL
JACK ELLIOT (Tom Selleck): Ethnocentric over-the-hill American New York Yankee sent to the Japanese baseball league.Yoji: Jack’s stressed-out harmony-seeking interpreter
HIROKO: Jack’s Japanese girl friendUchiyama (“Uchi”): Manager of Jack’s team, the Chuunichi Dragons who puts his face on the line by recruiting Jack.
The central conflict of the story (besides Jack’s American ethnocentrism) is how Jack clashes with his manager Uchi for not playing aggressive, risky baseball & for not allowing his players to enjoy playing the game.
SORRY ABOUT THE
LOCKER ROOM
LANAGUAGE!
CULTURAL LEARNING FROM THE
VIDEO
SCENE: Jack arrives at the
Tokyo airport & is met by Yojiyama
SEQUENCE OF CULTURAL
BEHAVIORS
No sense of community
responsibility
Yoji to Jack: “Excellent! People to
see, things to do.”
Harmony culture & screened
communication
Culturally “naked” Jack meets/greets the owners of the Sunichi Dragons
baseball franchise.
Etiquette is Japanese
ethics & face ceremonial behavior
Business card
exchange etiquette
Jack’s Western
pragmatism & self-
orientaation
The (national) press
conference
Individualism culture vs. community
culture
Jack’s ethnocentric,
“I don’t care” attitude
“Red neck” immature
individualism
Jack’s displeasure at his #54 jersey
number (instead of “his” number #48) &
underestimating Japanese
expectations
Hyper-individualism & ignorance of the big
picture
Yoji’s idealism in covering up
for Jack(ass)
Many of the press core speak English & know what Jack is really saying—
why don’t they act like it?
Ideals > reality
GOD GREW TIRED OF USWhat the “lost boys” had to cultural adjust to:•Technology•Consumerism•Convenience•Universal• Imperialism•Capitalism individualism
Aspects of capitalism culture reflected in this documentary: •Bountiful wealth of many in capitalist cultures• Impersonal approach of business
THE PROFESSIONALS
Extended familyMachine gunners on flat car socializingManana attitudeFatalism over authoritarianismExternal locus of control (fate)Train soldiers after the train stopped“Justice” “Shut up.”
Individualism ME > WEILOCMastery requires few responsibilities culture vs. adaptation cultureMastery via institutions Plutocracies
Cultural determinismIndependence ASAP