intermedio

Zürich Area, Switzerland Switzerland

Intercultural Communication and Project Management Johan Gottfried Herder’s concept of culture is still present in Western thought today: “Every nation has itself as its center of happiness, just as a ball has its own center of gravity.” He relates to culture as a closed thing within a community. For Ludwig Wittgenstein, culture is “a shared life practice.” It would be wrong, however, to think that everyone from one nation shares the same values and norms and that they all behave according to the same patterns. Cultures can be defined as a system which consists of many subsystems with smooth transitions and dynamic interactions within and beyond its boundaries. Edgar Schein describes or...