{"id":5130,"date":"2016-07-10T16:37:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T15:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/76export.com\/internationalization-and-culture\/"},"modified":"2016-07-10T16:37:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T15:37:57","slug":"internationalization-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/76export.com\/en\/internationalization-and-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Internationalization and culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing business in a country with different traditions needs <strong>flexibility and adaptability<\/strong> to go forward, but what about international business? These operations are a challenge that is based on the aforementioned flexibility and adaptation but, in order to optimize the success rate, the knowledge of <strong>habits <\/strong>(food, clothing, patience, greetings), history (humor, language), working styles and, in a broad sense, the culture of the &#8220;other&#8221; market (business etiquette and practices, punctuality, gifts, cards and introductions, presentations, religion) are also required.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3806 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/76export.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1_Banner.jpg\" alt=\"P1_Banner\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/76export.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1_Banner.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/76export.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1_Banner-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/76export.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1_Banner-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/76export.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1_Banner-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is very interesting Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geerthofstede.com\/geert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hofstede<\/a>\u00b4s approach: He has contributed, with great success and professional acceptance, to analyze the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geert-hofstede.com\/tools.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cultural component<\/a> of people in different <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geert-hofstede.com\/countries.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">countries<\/a>.<br \/>I also think that Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/ghemawat.com\/bio.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pankaj Ghemawat<\/a>\u00b4s contribution (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/pankajghemawat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tw<\/a>) is rather good: In a very visual way, and through <a href=\"http:\/\/ghemawat.com\/maps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">maps<\/a>, he facilitates the understanding of both, cultural characteristics of different people, and countries, as their flows.<br \/>The perception of your brand or your personal image can be damaged by things as simple as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Numbers, is it true that the number 13 suggests bad luck ?, Yes, generally speaking and in Western cultures but not in Italy; What about this issue in China? It is not a problem to mention 13 but don\u00b4t do it with 4 (the pronunciation sounds very close to another word, meaning death, and therefore is very unpleasant)&#8230; If you give a present, think about the number\/amount and the packaging.<\/li>\n<li>Business cards, is the translation of your name or brand correct? Will people understand what you do\/offer? The colors and style, are they appropriate?, Do you know how to exchange cards?.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3807 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/76export.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1_Inter.jpg\" alt=\"P1_Inter\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/76export.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1_Inter.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/76export.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1_Inter-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/76export.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1_Inter-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/76export.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1_Inter-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Communication <\/strong>-at all levels-, should not also exceed the expectations of your customer, but also is important to fit into the context of the recipient (the idea is to avoid the famous &#8220;lost in translation&#8221; that goes far beyond language); that being said, it has to be sensitive to the target audience and to achieve real resonance in the addressee\u00b4s head. <br \/>Did you find the information useful? Do you need advice on foreign trade and international sales?, please <a href=\"mailto:info@76export.com\">contact me<\/a> or follow me on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing business in a country with different traditions needs flexibility and adaptability to go forward, but what about international business? These operations are a challenge that is based on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,169],"tags":[170,172,177,176,175,174,171,173],"class_list":{"0":"post-5130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cultura-internacional","8":"category-estrategia-en","9":"tag-china-en","10":"tag-cultura-internacional-en","11":"tag-flexibilidad-en","12":"tag-habitos-en","13":"tag-habits-en","14":"tag-idioma-en","15":"tag-international-culture-en","16":"tag-language-en"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/76export.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/76export.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/76export.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/76export.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/76export.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/76export.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/76export.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/76export.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/76export.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/76export.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}