The Egyptian culture is vastly different from American culture. While there are similarities between business practices in both the United States and Egypt, understanding the key differences in how to conduct oneself when negotiating business can be the difference between closing a sale and leaving empty-handed. With this report, the sales and marketing teams of Chevrolet will better understand how to negotiate with Egyptian executives in order get more automobiles into Egyptian dealerships. The report focuses on: (a) how meetings are conducted in Egypt; (b) meeting times; (c) proper Egyptian greetings; (d) group behavior in a meeting; (e) common business hierarchy; (f) proper business attire; and (g) important business communication tips. …show more content…
Egyptians enjoy having a cup of tea and participating in small talk in order to catch up with an old business partner or to get to know a new one. It is very important to remember to respect the muslim culture. Offending an Egyptian executive is sure fire way to lose business in …show more content…
Egyptians typically are very clean people and prefer to be around people who are also the same way. Therefore, being clean cut and smelling nice sends a message to an Egyptian that you take pride in your appearance.
Take time to learn some basic Arabic words in order to show that you are putting in effort to communicate with them. English is a second language to most Egyptians, but they would like to see that you are attempting to put in the same efforts that they have in order to communicate with you.
When in a meeting you have to greet the top executive first. Their is a hierarchy that Egyptians follow and it is extremely rude to not follow it. Also, never cross your legs during a meeting, it is a sign of disinterest in what is happening around you. In addition, make sure that you are not showing the bottom of your feet because this is seen as highly disrespectful. In Egyptian culture you are telling that person that they are dirty and unwelcomed.
Addressing in Egyptians is very important, therefore be sure to wear your best suit. As stated above, appearance is big to an Egyptian. How you present yourself is how they view you as a person. However, putting in maximum effort to look your best goes a long way. It can also open doors to future business deals with the same or other businesses.
The Egyptian men would carry their burdens on their heads while the women would carry their burdens on their shoulders. Egyptian women would pee standing up and men would pee by squatting. Egyptians customs were flipped as seen by their gender roles, women had more power than men. They ate their food outdoors in the street while in other countries eat inside. In other countries, priests had long hair, but in Egypt their heads were shaved. It was also a tradition in other countries in the time of sadness to shave their heads, but when Egyptians lost a relative they would let their beards and hair grow long. Most Greeks wrote and calculate by moving their hands from left to right, but Egyptians wrote and calculate from right to left. These examples illustrate the differences of Egyptian’s customs from other
When a member of the Egyptian royal family became pharaoh, he became much more than ruler of a mighty empire, he ascended to the rank of god. This position allowed the pharaoh to commission monuments to himself and to his reign, controls his subjects regardless of their rank, and maintain Egypt’s status among her enemies. Just as in any hierarchical governmental system, the pharaoh treated different classes of individuals and groups in different ways from the austere priest to the lowly peasant. The them, Pharaoh was a god and he would allow no one to forget that fact; but to him, the world was below him and he treated each group accordingly. This is illustrated in some of the few surviving works from the Egyptian dynastic periods. Through personal letters, official government correspondence, and fiction, a broad picture can be painted as to how the pharaoh interacted with his people and how they reacted towards him.
Everyday in the Egyptian way of life, both men and women would adorn themselves with beautiful jewelry and makeup. Wearing these pieces of jewelry and makeup was part of their everyday life.
Ancient Egypt was a very important time in our time period. They had their own way of life. Egyptians had their own writing, burials, government, religion, cooking, and games. They were educated people with many talents. They were good with their hands and brains. Ancient Egyptians were a magnificent race of people.
Ancient Egypt is considered to be one of the most significant eras in history, due to its lengthy existence and its overwhelming contributions to the development of western civilization. You could say that Egypt provided the building blocks for Greek and Roman culture, and through them, influenced all of Western tradition. Today Egyptian imagery, concepts, and perspectives are found everywhere; you will find them in architectural forms, on money, and in our day to day lives. We are able to distinguish various elements of its culture that played a key role in its development, such as agriculture, architecture, religion, and government to name a few. Egypt 's impact on later cultures was and still is immense.
Even though I started off talking about jewelry there were many ways that Egyptians adorned themselves. Egyptians used jewelry, makeup, and tattoos. We know this because the Egyptians documented many of their ways and also have relics (mummies and tombs that have survived) that let us see how they actually did adorn themselves. I will first start off discussing jewelry.
Learning a foreign language has become a critical factor that impacts the future of any country. Specially, the English language which becomes an international language and a global lingua franca. The growing importance of English has been observed in virtually all countries of the world. Egypt is one of the countries in which English has a strong and a palpable presence in all its sectors. This perceived growing position of English is in response to the development of Egypt in a variety of ways, including the number of founded international establishments, the rapid changes that the social fabric has witnessed in recent years and the efforts exerted by the Egyptian government to expand economic relationships with other countries as The Egyptian government and Egyptian business need people who can conduct high-level negotiations in English. In the light of these facts, learning English in Egypt is important and a valuable commodity.
Most of the Egyptians have brown eyes, brown hair, and average height. Egyptians people have various skin colors; they are not white, but also they are not black.
Seemingly static in appearance, to the untrained eye, Egyptian Art is somewhat formal and blocky, with very little to no naturalism; in opposition to ancient western art such as Greek and Roman artistic traditions. (Neer, 2012) However, Egyptian Art serves a purpose that celebrates the afterlife as well as appreciating life. Egyptian visual imagery expressed animals not in the typically assumed static and rigid form, but in naturalistic dynamism that is largely ignored in general Egyptian Art scholarship. Ancient Egyptian art endures a steady artistic tradition and despite various changes and modification in style occurred during the 3,000 years pharaohs ruled; they are recognizably Egyptian in origin. What was wholly unique was the artistic
Our streets may be dirty, our technology lacking, our economy failing, and our politics is, to put it delicately, a mess. Yet our people persevere and that's why I am proud to call myself an Egyptian. It took me a while to not focus on the issues shown on the media and it wasn't until a trip to Egypt that I really learned about or diverse culture. I went in disgusted, Egypt is a very different place from Troy, my hometown. There's sand in every possible crevice, ghetto donkey carriages, and the smell of middle eastern fried food is everywhere. But it wasn't until I really got to interact with the people that I realized we are more than just our appearance. There's a warm heartedness that's prevalent in Egypt that just showcased here in America.
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The ancient Egyptians were people of many firsts. They were the first people of ancient times to believe in life after death. They were the first to build in stone and to fashion the arch in stone and brick. Even before the unification of the Two Lands, the Egyptians had developed a plow and a system of writing. They were accomplished sailors and shipbuilders. They learned to chart the cosmos in order to predict the Nile flood. Their physicians prescribed healing remedies and performed surgical operations. They sculpted in stone and decorated the walls of their tombs with naturalistic murals in vibrant colors. The legacy of ancient Egypt is written in stone across the face of the country from the pyramids of Upper Egypt to the rock tombs in the Valley of the Kings to the Old Kingdom temples of Luxor and Karnak to the Ptolemaic temples of Edfu and Dendera and to the Roma...
This problem all started in 1882 when the British forced Napoleon Bonaparte, the leader of the French Army, out of Africa. Instead of leaving the land of Egypt to its rightful owners, the Egyptians, Britain decided to colonize Egypt and control them through a protectorate. The protectorate allowed the British government to control Egypt's economic and political decisions without intervention from the Egyptians. In other words, The Egyptians had completely lost control of their own country. Well, some of you might ask, "Why would Britain want to keep Egypt?" The response to this is more simple than you might think. Was it the fact that Egypt was such a weak country at the time? Or was it that Egypt was just waiting to be colonized? No, it was greed, pure British greed, that caused the corruption of Egypt's balanced culture.
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Egypt has always been a popular destination of tourism worldwide. It is not only the pyramids that make this country a major tourism spot, but also,