Cross-Cultural Ethics

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to the cultural definition of what is a meaningful goal and what are available means(16). Culturally determined responses are built into the very physiology of the organism.
Second, culture pervades social activities and institutions. There is a strain toward consistency in culture�consistency of perception and style, as well as of values and ethics. This is the thesis of McGann�s discussion of integrating themes in three preliterate, relatively simple societies. McGann based her analysis on the following postulate:

A culture, like an individual, is a more or less consistent pattern of thought and action. Within each culture there cone into being characteristic purposes not necessarily shared by other types of society. In obedience to these purposes, each people further and further consolidates its experience, and in proportion to the urgency of these drives the heterogeneous items of behavior take more and more congruous shape (McGann 42).

Although a strain to ...

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the level of agreement between two parties (individuals, MNCs, industries, nations) about the rightness or wrongness of certain actions governing cross-cultural interactions.
The differences in cultures is largely due to religious and social values that naturally apply different ethics to different social groups (family, friends, citizens, foreigners). According to Baylis, the intended fundamental norms have been criticized for being too narrow, minimalistic, ethnocentric, and insensitive to other possible ethical perspectives and practical considerations (171).
Although several studies have found little or no difference regarding ethics and moral values across cultures, the ...

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