Please help me out by filling out a few culture-related questions

[Mastasidaz]

Hi all,

Currently I have a culture related subject at school. For this subject I need to interview a person living in the United States. I have a few questions which can be found below. It would help me greatly if someone of you guys could fill it in. It shouldn't take more than a couple minutes. Thanks in advance!

• How do people greet each other?
• How would a visitor be welcomed at someone’s home?
• How are gender roles perceived?
• How important is hierarchy in business?
• What are the cultural attitudes toward aging and elderly people?
• How important is the individual versus the group?
• How is space used? For example, how close should two people who are having a conversation stand next to each other.
• How is time understood and measured? For example, how late can you be at a business appointment before you are considered rude?
• How is public space used? For example, do people “hang out” on the street, or are they in public because they are going from one place to another?

 

[Jahgee]

Hey
Everyone comes up and shakes your hand
Men do the heavy work for the women
IDK
We put them in homes, so not that great
Not important
You give a person some room
Time is understood to be fashionably late, so 10 minutes before it is rude
We go around and arrest those hang outters, so defiantly going from one place to another.

 

[Steele_obsidion]

• Hello, or I say Hola Taco.
• Welcome to my house
• Men do the work. Women work as well, but dont do the heavy lifting most of the time.
• The lowly minium wage workers make money for the corporate fatcats so they can buy ferraris and lamborghinis for their mansions
• Old people have worked for their lives, they get to retire, sit back and relax.
• everyone here is on their own. people are not treated equally
• for me its like 2 feet away. For most others is a foot or 2.
• If i am a minute late, its ok, but if i was 10 minutes late its rude for a business meeting. if it was for a party, no one cars.
• People usually are going from one place to another, but at college people hang in groups all the time. it really depends on the situation.

 

[W3H5]

Damn, I filled out the whole form and then realised it was for US citizens.

 

[Mastasidaz]

Thanks a lot guys for giving the answers!

W3HS, When I have a subject about the UK I will contact you.