Exploring and Enjoying our Cultural Differences and Similarities

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Communication
A. Face-to-face and voice-to-voice are the preferred means of communication
B. High attachment to the written word - make plans over email and present an idea in a document.
C. You e-mail your friends at work, even though you are only 10 feet apart.


Directions
A. You point with all your fingers at an object/direction
B. Most point with the index finger at an object/direction, and some point with their nose
C. You point at an object/direction with your lips


Traffic Laws
A. You seem to snub almost all road laws including red lights and helmets
B. For the most part, you obey traffic laws
C. For you a yellow light means " go faster"


Land Size
A. ranks #7 in land mass for countries of the world.
B. ranks #3 in land mass for countries of the world.
C. ranks #71 in land mass for countries of the world.


Languages
A. Primary language spoken is Hindi here. But there are around 25-30 languages, which are being spoken state wise in the country
B. Primary languages spoken are English and Spanish
C. Primary languages spoken are Spanish, Filipino, Tagalog, and English


Funny names
A. Hero. When someone look smart. Then called him Salman Khan, Sharukh Khan
B. Goldilocks is a fairy tale character. You know someone with a name that belonged to someone in the Bible.
C. Goldilocks is a very popular bakery. Jollibee – hamburger joint. You know someone with a name that repeats itself, i.e. Jon-Jon, Len-Len, Jong-Jong, or Bing-Bing


Hand Gestures
A. Here we use all our fingers for gesture.
B. "come here" is palm-up, fingers waving toward the body
C. “come here” is palm-down, fingers moving toward body in sort of shoveling motion


Eyebrows
A. You raise your eyebrows to show anger. To show surprise they close their mouth with your hands.
B. You raise your eyebrows to show surprise, you drop y our eyebrows to show confusion or anger
C. You raise your eyebrows to say yes, One eyebrow means ‘what’


Tanning
A. You use an umbrella to shade themselves from the sun, since most of them are already tanned. Here “fair” skin is more desirable .
B. You are are obsessed with getting that “summer glow”.
C. You use an umbrella for a shade on hot summer days


Taxes
A. Many deductions one can make to reduce taxable income. People know how to bend and go about finding gaps in the rules (especially if you own a business). Tax evasion is high and doing taxes is complicated.
B. You think a tax level of 30% is scandalously high.
C. 30% seems normal


Marriage jewelry
A. There is no concept of wedding ring. The female usually wears a “mangalsutra” (something that looks like a necklace) that will show all she is married and wear a red bindi (circle) on her forehead. The guy doesn’t have to wear anything
B. Married people feel naked without their wedding ring, that goes on the left hand finger that is between the “pinkie” and the middle finger
C. Married people feel naked without their wedding ring, that goes on the left hand finger called the “pala sing singan”


Walking
A. Cars do not try to avoid pedestrians. They can’t, as pedestrians are everywhere.
B. If you're a pedestrian and cars are stopped at a red light, you will fearlessly cross the street in front of them.
C. Cars do not try to avoid pedestrians


Breeding
A. You do care very much what family someone comes from. The Caste system is high, therefore, people experience indirect discrimination.
B. You don't care very much what family someone comes from.
C. You do care very much what family someone comes from.


Price negotiation
A. You haggle over everything unless it is in a department store.
B. About the only things you expect to bargain for are houses, cars, and antiques. Haggling is largely a matter of finding the hidden point that's the buyer's minimum
C. You haggle over everything unless it is in a department store or grocery store.


Singing
A. You can sing anytime. If someone doesn’t like it, they will yell and you yell back.
B. Americans to themselves when you’re alone. They may have tried Karaoke but only with a few close friends or family
C. You own a karaoke machine and you use it regularly, in public


Foreign foods
A. You love Chinese, burgers, and Pizzas since there you have McDonalds, KFC, Pizzahut, Domino’s, and Subway
B. You love to eat tacos (although TexMex spices are required), Chinese (again, Americanized), and Italian anything.
C. You love Japanese food like sushi, Italian food like pizza and pasta and American burgers.


Holiday gifts
A. Spend a lot during Diwali Festival
B. You spend a month's pay on Christmas gifts.
C. Gifts vary from family to family, some not exchanging gifts at all, while others will spend a month’s pay on Christmas.


Not wasting food
A. Well, make sure you don’t drop food on the floor. There are not rules otherwise.
B. When dropping food on the floor, there is a three second rule that is sometimes five seconds, sometimes even more (depending on who is around and the condition of the floor)
C. When dropping food on the floor, there is a five second rule


Vocabulary
A. You 'on' and 'off' the lights
B. You ‘turn on’ and 'turn off' the lights
C. You 'open' and 'close' the lights


Vocabulary
A. You refer to a 'Fridge’
B. You refer to refrigerator
C. You refer to a 'ref', 'Frigidare', or "pridyider"


Greetings
A. shake hands with members of the same sex, 2. When being introduced to someone of the opposite sex, nodding the head and smiling is usually sufficient or in General, joining a person’s own hands togethers saying ‘Namaste’ while bowing your head a little
B. waive, shake hands or some hug if people are close friends
C. you shake hands or waive but most of the time, you nod your head upwards to greet someone


Family Greetings
A. greet someone older differently from someone in my age group or someone younger. This also changes with the gender of the person I am addressing. Close friends hug. Men hug men, women hug women. Older uncles and aunties hug younger children. Grandparents are not to be hugged, you are supposed to touch their feet and receive blessings for a long life, a speedy marriage, numerous children, etc. Kissing is a big no-no. Only infants are to be publicly kissed.
B. Kissing of any form varies greatly from family to family. There is no “standard”. As a safe general rule, do not kiss anybody else’s relatives unless they kiss you first. If they do, it will be either on one cheek, possibly two, and it will often be “in the air” and not really touching your skin. You will never get a kiss on lips because that is very rude. As for your own relatives, some families when greeting kiss on the lips, others on the cheek, others not at all.
C. You kiss relatives on the cheek when you enter the room


Speed limits
A. You can speed up from 10 to 80-100 kmph while driving, when there is no cop on the road.
B. You add 5mph to the posted speed limit while driving.
C. Speed limit signs are only for decorations and a traffic cop is known to you as a "crocodile"


Driving
A. You drive on the left side of the road.People stop at red lights because they scared of fine if caught crossing red light.
B. You drive on the right side of the road. You stop at red lights even if nobody's around.
C. You drive on the right hand side of the road. If there is a red light and nobody is around, nobody observes it, especially at night.


Sports
A. Sports include cricket, chess, badminton, field hockey, tennis, association football, and golf.
B. Four most popular team sports are baseball, American football, basketball and ice hockey.
C. Arnis, a form of martial arts is the national sport. Other popular sports include basketball, boxing, association football, billiards, chess, ten-pin bowling, volleyball, horse racing and cockfighting. Dodge ball and badminton are also popular


Land Size
A. Your country’s land size ranks #7 in land mass for countries of the world
B. Your country’s land size ranks #3 in land mass for countries of the world.
C. Your country’s land size ranks #71 in land mass for countries of the world and


Government
A. Country is comprised of self-governing states united by a central government.
B. Country is comprised of self-governing states united by a central government.
C. Democracy/Republic. There are provinces that are self-governed.


Before independence
A. British colony before independence.
B. British colony before independence.
C. Spanish colonization in the Philippines lasted from 1565 to 1898. Later, the Philippines was a territory of the United States from 1898 until 1946.


Population race
A. multi-ethnic population
B. multi-ethnic population
C. Primarily Malay mixed with Chinese


Religion
A. primarily Hindu AND religion has strong holds within the country population
B. primarily Christian AND religion has strong holds within the country population
C. primarily Christian AND religion has strong holds within the country population


Entertainment/Movies
A. Big film industry with lots of film stars. Watching movies in is a very popular pastime. Citizens have a lot of admiration for their movie stars and they imitate their film stars fashion.
B. Big film industry with lots of film stars. Watching movies in is a very popular pastime. Citizens have a lot of admiration for their movie stars and they imitate their film stars fashion.
C. The Philippines, being one of Asia's earliest film industry producers, remains undisputed in terms of the highest level of theater admission in Asia


Vegetarian
A. In planning for [or ordering] non-vegetarian dishes, chicken, lamb or fish are safe options.
B. 3.2 percent of U.S. adults follow a vegetarian-based diet. 10 percent of U.S. adults say they largely follow a vegetarian-inclined diet. Most Americans eat meat
C. Filipinos are for the most part not vegetarians. Most Filipinos eat meat.


Street vendor food
A. Food from a street is high in bacteria and not safe for tourists
B. Food from a street vendor is safe for tourists to eat.
C. Food from a street vendor is safe for tourists to eat.


Daily meals
A. You are very fond of eating. You want heavy breakfast in the morning, Light lunch(like rice and chapatti with salad) and dinner, if non-vegetarian, could be chicken with wine.
B. A diet is 3 meals a day, breakfast, lunch and supper. The largest meal is often referred to as “dinner” which could be lunch or supper. Typically the biggest meal of the day is supper, unless it is Sunday, then it is lunch.
C. A typical Pinoy diet consists at most of six meals a day; breakfast, snacks, lunch, snacks, dinner and again a midnight snack before going to sleep.


Most common food
A. Vegetarian curry recipes to serve with breads and rice dishes
B. Potatoes and bread are a staple in the diet. They are often eaten IN or along with other foods.
C. Rice is a staple in the diet, it is usually eaten together with other dishes.


Dessert
A. Everybody loves ice cream
B. Everybody loves ice cream
C. Everybody loves ice cream – especially purple Yam flavored ice cream (ube)


Misconceptions
A. You think all White Americans are rich. – For example, if there is a African American and a White American walking down the same street, only the white American will be followed everywhere for money. You also think that Filipinos give amazing manicures and pedicures.
B. You think all Asians (including Filipinos) can do martial arts and all indians are smart
C. You think all Americans are rich and all Indians are vegetarians.


Shoes-to-be-polite
A. You put off your shoes before entering anyone’s house.
B. OFFER to take your shoes off when you enter a house only if you see other shoes in the entryway. Otherwise, proceed in the house with your shoes on your feet.
C. You take off your shoes when you enter a house


Number of shoes
A. Here children and men love shoes. Women loves sandals.
B. All women love shoes.
C. all women want to be Imelda Marcos because of her shoes!


Love and Romance
A. No concept of this at all in the culture except in fairly tales. Although, Feb 14th is big in Urban India.
B. February 14th is a huge holiday in the US for people to tell each other they love each other. For the most part, Americans are big on verbally telling each other they love each other.
C. They only tell each other they love each other once in awhile. But, they show that they love each other everything they do and say.


Bribes
A. You accept to paying bribes as regular business
B. You seriously expect to be able to transact business, or deal with the government, without paying bribes
C. You accept to paying bribes as regular business


No cash
A. Cash is mostly used. Credit cards rarely.
B. Just about any store will take your credit card
C. Some use credit cards but not all stores take them


Invitations
A. A direct refusal to an invitation [e.g., 'sorry, I will not be able to come'] is likely to be seen as impolite, or even arrogant. If you have to decline an invitation, it is more acceptable to give a somewhat vague and open-ended answer such as 'I'll try' or 'I will confirm with you later', etc.
B. A direct refusal to an invitation is the best course of action.
C. A direct refusal to an invitation is the best course of action.


Connectivity
A. You have facebook, myspace, or twitter (OR ALL)
B. You have facebook, myspace, or twitter (OR ALL)
C. You have facebook, myspace, or twitter (OR ALL)


Acceptable addictions
A. Cigarettes, coffee, tea
B. Most are addicted to caffeinated coffee (imported from Colombia) or soft drink (which depending on the part of the country you are from can be called ‘pop’, ‘coke’, ‘soda’, ‘cola’, .or ‘tonic’.)
C. Beverage of choice in the mornings at the office is coffee (from local growers). It is served in many offices.


Vocabulary
A. You say 'Aai'
B. You say 'ouch'
C. You say 'Aray'


Vocabulary
A. ‘Achha' = regularly slip out during conversations – it means “ok”
B. ‘Shut up’, ‘No Way’, and ‘Get Out Of Here’ regularly slip out during conversations, they mean, “Really?”
C. ‘Ano' and 'di ba' = regularly slip out during conversations – it means “What?” and “Really?”


Vocabulary
A. You say 'Ha?'
B. You say 'what?'
C. You say 'Ha?'


Vocabulary
A. You say 'Oy!' to get someone's attention
B. You say 'Hey!' to get someone's attention
C. You say 'Hoy!' to get someone's attention


Measurement
A. Measurement is in metric system
B. You still measure things in feet, pounds, and gallons
C. Measurement is in metric system





Energizer ID Team