Week 3

Hi again!

On Monday our lecture was about Cultural differences. I have never really thought about the fact that in business world it’s very important that you understand and are aware of the differences in different countries culture. In some other country something that in Finland is consider a compliment might in another country be consider as an insult.

An example of this could be that in Russia (as in many other countries also) giving yellow flowers means that you want to break up with the person you give the flowers to. There are a lot of examples like this. Also an example is that in Finland we say hello by shaking hands in some other country they kiss each others on the cheeks. This is something I’m familiar with.
Still there was a lot of things I never had thought you should take into account when you work with people from other countries.

We also had a guest lecturer Lynn-Marie Sederlöf-Airisto. She told us about international marketing. She also gave us a task to answer a few questions to help her developing marketing of Lacy Box in Finland. We made a Power Point about our group answers/opinions to her questions.

We had an exercise to choose a country and tell about their culture and cultural differences. Our group chose to do a presentation about Russian culture. We hade a meeting on Tuesday and we made a PowerPoint presentation about Russian culture. We learnt a lot about their culture and it made us understand why they behave like they do.
Here I need to say that we have an awesome team!! We have so fun together and still we get everything done!

This picture tells it all

On Thursday hade a lecture where some of the students presented their presentation about the country they hade chosen. It was very interesting to hear about other countries as Latvia, Spain and Luxemburg. Some groups hade made very awesome videos about their countries culture!!

As homework we had to do our own cultural luggage. Here is mine!

I will write to you again next week!

-Nora