Cross Cultural Blunder

In our company we have a lot of e-mails from visitors to our website saying, as many examples of Cross Cultural wrong. We always need more information. To give in to pressures, we also have other examples of how cultural ignorance, not a negative response (and most of the time humorous) consequences. The cultural heritage are the errors for our visitors and would again stress that these examples of "wrong culture" for people to clarify the importance of cultural awareness is now abroad. Manager in a U.S. company was shocked when he discovered that the brand of oil on the market in a Latin American Spanish as "Jackass oil." American Motors tries his new car, the Matador, the image of strength and courage. However, in Puerto Rico the name means "Killer" and was not popular on the dangerous roads of the country. A sales manager in Hong Kong, tent, personal control \ 's speed of work. He stressed at work, rather than 15 minutes late. It answers, but when exactly the time to work, instead of the evening, as they had done before. Much work remained unfinished in the wake of Management, and reintegrate them into their schedule. Telephone company in the United States is seeking their products and services for Latinos, in a town in which a Latino wife tells her husband, a friend, tell him that it would be late for dinner. Latino Communications bombarded by women for their husbands and their use over time would not be necessary, a call to the delay. Cologne for men features a pastoral scene with a man and his dog. He failed in Islamic countries dogs are unclean. Procter & Gamble, with an advertisement on television, that Japan was in Europe. The screen showed a woman, Baden, the husband in the bathroom and touch. The Japanese this announcement as a breach of privacy, inappropriate behavior, and in a very bad taste. An American businessman refuses an offer for a cup of coffee from a businessman in Saudi Arabia. This waste is considered very rude, and stalled negotiations. A Japanese manager in an American company was told, critical comments of a child during an evaluation. Japanese high-context language and are uncomfortable, the direct feedback. It took five attempts director before being sufficient to learn the weak, so that the Americans have understood. One company printed "OK" fingerprints of each page of the catalog. In many parts of Latin America, as an obscene gesture. Six months of work lost because all the catalogs Reprint. Leona Helmsley should have done its duty to promote their first Helmsley Palace Hotel in New York as compared to the Taj Mahal - a mausoleum in India. A golf ball manufacturer of golf balls packaged in packs of four comfortable shopping in Japan. Unfortunately, the pronunciation of the word "four" in Japanese, it seems that the word "death" and four positions are packed infamous. In 1985, Bechtel, by a joint venture in New Guinea. It seemed from the outset a mistake. Bechtel has 33 months to build a new structure, organization, production and demand or the implementation of financial sanctions. It is planned for a mine at the head of an isolated mountain in a forest, creating a town of 2500, the stocks of 400, a power plant, air strip, roads, hospitals and services (for people who do not yet have a Westerner) . The locals, the recruitment for employment (more than 400 inches of rain during the rainy season) has no concept of private property, modern prices, the central government, or rules. The multicultural 5000 was accompanied by indigenous people and imported technicians from the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Korea and Philippines. The roads do not believe in the world of work around the clock (the contractor has failed). National is not, as the working time was closed arc with telephone lines, roads and frighten staff. E 'was 85% of the local labor force.