this is one of four elements needed to establish good and constructive communication across cultures. it means that you have to prepare your self, be open to new things and to create a data base that will assist you to understand the other side actions.
while establishing business in India, knowing about the culture as much as possible will be in your benefit. research, meeting, expirence and what ever that will help you to expend your knowledge about the local culture it is all Pre open minded knowledge
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A more prominent occipital bone than typical. It was once believed that this area grew as knowledge was accumulated. More noticeable in canines.
by Pyrotard November 1, 2008
Get the Knowledge bump mug.Concept used in the work of Michel Foucault, to denote the interchangeability and mutual supportiveness of power and knowledge. Because he thought a regime of power always constructs forms of knowledge and a regime of knowledge always institutes a regime of power, he fused the two words into a single concept.
For example, prisons are an example of a regime of power/knowledge: the observation of prisoners and the recording of different categories of criminality are in many ways identical with the process of incarceration itself, as a system of control of people's bodies and of physical spaces.
For example, prisons are an example of a regime of power/knowledge: the observation of prisoners and the recording of different categories of criminality are in many ways identical with the process of incarceration itself, as a system of control of people's bodies and of physical spaces.
Mental asylums, schools, armies, etc. are all different examples of regimes of power/knowledge. The way in which people are recorded as elements in these discourses is connected to their subordination to or complicity in particular relations of power.
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Mark: "I am going to Boston, but I am not sure what I am doing"
John: "Hmm, please allow me, I love "dropping knowledge" on the likes of you. There is a Red Sox game at 7:05 pm, they're playing the Rangers, you can find tickets at stubhub.com, there is a great restaurant around the corner, here is the number to make a reservation. You should avoid taking 93 during rush hour."
Mark: "Wow, you just dropped some serious knowledge on me!"
John: "Hmm, please allow me, I love "dropping knowledge" on the likes of you. There is a Red Sox game at 7:05 pm, they're playing the Rangers, you can find tickets at stubhub.com, there is a great restaurant around the corner, here is the number to make a reservation. You should avoid taking 93 during rush hour."
Mark: "Wow, you just dropped some serious knowledge on me!"
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Get the Dropping Knowledge mug.An extention of the popular, "pool of knowledge" that basically means someone is so smart and has such a large information base they surpass just being a pool of knowledge, they can miraculously pull things out of their ass, and hence are a cesspool of knowledge.
Could be taken as a compliment or an insult--i.e. someone that is full of shit.
Could be taken as a compliment or an insult--i.e. someone that is full of shit.
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Get the Cesspool of Knowledge mug.The euphamish the federal government uses for sex. Doesn't make sense unless you know what "carnal knowledge" is. Otherwise it seems like the government is defining rape as knowing something about females.
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