It is important for travelers and business people to understand the cultures they come into contact with. However, briefly. What are the main advantages of doing so? What do you think is the disadvantage of not doing so?

There are both pros and cons for tourists and businessmen and women to have a deep understanding of the different cultures they come across. Deep insights and rich knowledge of one
culture
will not only bridge the communication gap but
also
enable to
build
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a trustworthy relationship with the nation.
For instance
,
Japanese
tourists tend to buy more survivors at
the
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stores with
Japanese
-speaking
shop keepers
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shopkeepers
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in foreign countries, since they can ask
anything
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until they build trust in the product in their mother tongue. In fact, when my mother and I visited Turkey five years ago, we bought several cloth pillow covers from a cheerful guy who spoke
Japanese
. The fun in shopping is not gaining the material, but experiencing unique events and communicating with the world you have never before.
On the other hand
, the major downside would be that cultural understanding may cause misunderstandings.
For example
, some foreign people who fluently speak
Japanese
tend to be regarded as
Japanese
and occasionally make themselves misunderstood. In fact, one of my
labmatemates
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labmates
from China spoke so fluently
Japanese
that teachers thought of him as a
Japanese
student and expected him to behave in the most common way in
Japanese
culture
.
As a result
, he felt extreme pressure on it and
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to succeed in school work.
That is
, the cultural gap will rarely disappear no matter how well you speak that language. To make matters worse,
the
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person with deep insights into one
culture
will be highly expected to behave like a native person.
To sum up
, cultural understanding in business and tourism is like both sides of a coin. The more you learn about that
culture
, the closer relationship you can build with the nation.
However
, it means that you are expected to be the native and judged in detail .
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