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Being a business education major, I am very interested in the different structures of the education systems in the world. Not only do I think it is important to teachers to understand the different education systems, but also everyone else. Because of our world growing into a more global world, we all need to understand the culture and customers of different countries.

As described in International Business: Opportunities and Challenges in a Flattening World, culture is, “in the broadest sense, refers to how and why we think and function. It encompasses all sorts of things—how we eat, play, dress, work, think, interact, and communicate. ” I believe that in order to know how people think around you in the world, you need to understand their background, which education takes a huge part of.

We hear all the time that the world is become more and more diverse. Well part of diversity is not that we only know about other cultures, but that we have knowledge about the cultures too. This relates back to our text ones again with “cross-cultural understanding requires that we reorient our mind-set and, most importantly, our expectations, in order to interpret the gestures, attitudes, and statements of the people we encounter. ” Also if you ever want to be a manager or work in human relations, and you hire someone of a different culture than your own, you need to fully understand their background in order to know why they are the way they are, and how that affects them in the world place.

I decided to pick a country that I knew had a different education structure, but that I didn’t know too much about. My learnings from this research have opened my eyes to a different education structure, and it has made me curious to learn abou...

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...y found that in the United States they found that a student would attend school, go into the working world and attain full-time experience, and then re-enter the education world for a variety of different reasons.

For the last part it was hard to measure how “smooth” something went. They did find that if you design the job description more based on skills rather than just specifying a degree had some impact on the transition into the work place, but not a huge significance.

I found this research to be very informational to me, and hopefully to others. It makes me more curious to find out about all the different education systems out there. I think that it should be important to every coming back to the culture factor and the diversification of the world. In order to really understand someone, you need to understand their background and how they were raised.