A Recap until now: IMD and GLOBESMART

I have taken a class similar to this one (BUS 187), and some of the material we go over in class (Globalization debate, Understanding Cultural Diversity) I have read over and heard in my previous class, but what makes this class different then my other class is the size. My other class had many students and interacting with everybody was very difficult, whereas this class everyone is more close knit, one example of this could be the flip the tarp simulation (THAT WAS SO FUN!). I am learning more about myself as this class progresses, for example the assessments we have to take make me have to think about myself from a different perspective. Most of these assessments ask you questions that are either yes or no, black or white answers, but then you have other questions they throw in there, questions one has to really think about.

For the IMD assessment results my scores seemed average compared to the class, I'm guessing the whole class averaged itself out since we all come from different backgrounds. What was most interesting to me was my score for Relation to Environment, when I compared my country average to my average I had the (almost)exact numbers on there, that just shows me how my culture still has an impact on how I view thing when it comes to that topic even though I came to to this country when I was very little.

For the Globesmart assessment my results seemed similar to the results I acquired from another assessment I took last year called "LSI assessment". My results vary according to each characteristic, for example I have three results (egalitarianism, risk, and tasks) which are similar to that of U.S. average. The other scores such as interdependent/independent, direct/indirect I am located somewhere in the middle, meaning I'm sometimes this or sometimes that. One thing that always catches me off guard is the independent/interdependent result because I view myself as an independent person, however this assessment says that although I'm in the middle I'm interdependent most times. The biggest difference between the U.S. average score and my score is the short term/long term characteristic, the U.S. is more short term whereas I'm located at the end of the arrow towards long term... I just like to think ahead =D