In a collectivist culture, the personality traits that are ideal are loyalty, working together, and family-like. In an individualistic society, you want independence, self-goals, self-drive, and someone who is concerned about themselves.
A Ph.D has more status in an individualistic society where education and branching out is valued. An older family member would be admired more in a collectivist society because they have had the most experience.
A teacher going into an individualistic culture will probably want to teach everyone to work together and not encourage independence. They will probably not want t make a big deal of themselves and try to assimilate into the workplace. It would be an internal conflict because it's their own opinion. A teacher going into a collectivist society will probably be too independent, and they will stand out from the crowd. This is an external conflict because it will seem to be going against the norm of the culture.
An acquaintance is someone you know and are sort of friends with. It's a neutral word because you could be familiar with this person or barely know them.
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