Imagine that businesspeople from a high-context culture (e.g., Japan or China) meet their counterparts from a low-context culture (the United States) for the first time to negotiate and sign a manufacturing contract. What could go wrong? How about conflicting perceptions of time?

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Answer:

As per Chegg guidelines .

Explanation:

For a high-context culture, the social environment or social context has more importance than the words being spoken. This means that in a high context culture, low-contex culture is not as important as the nonverbal communication, because nonverbal communication has more importance . For the high-context culture, a contract is just a beginning point for negotiations in closing the deal. Signing of the contract does not necessary means closing of the business deal. Some of the examples of high-context cultures are China, most Arab countries, Latin America, most African countries, most other Asian countries, and Italy. In reality, most cultures fall somewhere along a continuum, or sliding scale, in their perception of the importance of context (with high and low being the end points of the continuum