From the course: Developing Cross-Cultural Intelligence (2016)
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Relationships versus rules
From the course: Developing Cross-Cultural Intelligence (2016)
Relationships versus rules
- It's finals week of your first year in graduate school and the professor sends out questions for each student in class to responds to individually. The rules are clear. All work should be individual and unique. So your close friend and classmate, who you have shared the last year with, immediately asks for your help. You know that she's been struggling with personal matters during finals. What do you do? Help her, but disguise the answers so the professor won't find out? Or follow the rules and risk not moving into the second year of graduate school with your friend? This may sound like one of those moral puzzles, but it's a real story in my experience for demonstrating the tug between cultural differences in the choice between relationships and rules. Culturally speaking, members of a universalist society would opt to follow the rules before helping a friend. And in a particularist society, friendships would dominate…
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