Response to Chapter 11_Ben

First of all, this chapter mainly focus on the idea of intercultural counter, it contained a part which called culture shock, it was general part which I experienced in United States during this study abroad program. Author draw a graph which included four steps of culture shock process - euphoria, culture shock, acculturation and stable state. Moreover, I believed that I am staying at the stable state, because I already spent three months to involve in the American lifestyle. Indeed, you will get a culture shock while you go to a foreign place, generally, the lifestyle and something of that place did not fit with your expectation, we can find this phenomena in the first or second month. However, you will feel well when you overcame the culture shock successfully. It really doesn't matter to you life. 

The author also mentioned the language problem, especially in people who have different native language with local residences. For example, I believed that I cannot express all of my ideas sometimes through English which is not my native language. For instance, people may misunderstanding the others meaning, because language contained the features of culture or their ideology. It usually appear in the conversation in daily life. The other important idea mentioned by the author that is "Competitive advantages of different cultural profiles in international competition", it compares the differences between power distance, uncertainty  avoidance, short or long term operation, collectivism and individualism. These ideas may affect the operation or idea of different organizations. It's a interesting topic for searching different organizations. 

Finally, I argued that this chapter seemed a combination of all ideas which mentioned in this book. We can apply those ideas in our daily life when we got to communicate with the others, especially the foreigners. It was a good method for this situation, we can avoid some unnecessary mistakes and misunderstanding, it also eliminate some dilemmas and obstacles.