DBAC C lass a nnotations s creened t yping. MONOCHRONIC vs. POLYCHRONIC CULTURES Two contrasting...

DBACClass annotations screened typing

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

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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