Collectivist Conflict Lens

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Complete my.blog 9.1 (183), 9.2 (191), and 9.3 (193). What did you discover about yourself that you did not know before?

After completing my.blog 9.1 on assessing your individual and collectivist conflict lenses, I discovered that I actually fall into the bifocal conflict lens. I scored a 13 on my individual conflict lens and a 14 on my collectivist conflict lens. This was surprising to me because before taking this short assessment, I just assumed that I would fall more to the collectivist conflict lens that the individualist. When I am in conflicts, I always thought I was more concerned about the other person, than myself, but this assessment made it clear that I also am able to get my own points across, and really narrowly focus on the
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While face-negotiation theory helps to explain how people individualistic or collectivist value patterns influence the diverse conflict styles in different cultural situations. Basically, members who subscribe to a more individualistic view tend to be more self-face oriented, while those who tend to be more collectivist tend to be more other or mutual face-saving during conflicts. The concept of face in relation to the concept of conflict help to illuminated the challenges of intercultural communication, in that they show us that people depending on their culture face conflict in different ways. If someone where to be in a conflict with someone else, if they new about the facework of the other person, they may be better able to understand why they are reacting the way they are. For example, someone who is more individualistic may use direct, low context conflict style to asserting their rights in the situation, while someone from a more collectivist culture, may use indirect, high context conflict style to preserve relational harmony. When it comes to both of these, I do not think that we can talk about one without the other. This is because you cannot display one without the other. For example, those with a individualistic face-negotiation, might have facework that defend their social image, while those with a more collectivist outlook may use facework that defends the image of the other person in a