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The world is moving closer to being more global. People from diverse cultures are coming into contact with one another. We face the challenge of communicating effectively with people who have culturally based values, which emphasize their communication preferences. Advances in cross-cultural communication research are very important not only to help people of different cultures feel comfortable with each other but also to avoid misunderstandings that may result in negative stereotypes or premature judgments of "the other" speaker regardless of nationality or culture. In this assignment, a U.S. firm is hosting a team from Japan. The Japanese team consists of 5 men and their objective is to discuss the possibility of a joint venture between the two companies. Like I mentioned before, cross-cultural communication research is absolutely essential in this type of situation. The American and Japanese have different styles of doing business that could harm the transaction....

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