Individualist vs. Collectivist

 1) In a collectivist culture, what personality traits are likely to be considered ideal? What about an individualist culture? 2) In what type of culture might elders or people who have professional distinction receive more respect and less challenge from people lower on their culture's/group's hierarchy? Explain your answer. 3) Create a specific problem a teacher may encounter when he/she moves from teaching in a collectivist culture to an individualist culture or vice verse. Explain the specific values/influences/obligations/desires caused by the clash. Propose a way for the conflict to be resolved. 4) What is an acquaintance? Does the word have a positive or negative connotation? Explain.
1. Individualist: independent, self-reliant, responsible
    Collectivist: modest, benevolent, loyal
2.I think that an individualistic culture values status more. The individual person is more important than in a collectivist culture, so it would be valued more for a person to want to become more important and successful than others in their society. In a collsectivist culture, people value working together and being similar to everyone else. In a society like this, there wouldn't be much diversity in status if everyone is striving to be similar to one another.
3. A teacher may encounter opposition to group work and more fighting because the students wouldn't know how to interact with each other as well as students from a collectivist society. The teacher would have to slowly ease the students into group work to avoid the disagreements that could occur.
4. An acquaintance is a person with whom you interact commonly, but are not particularly close to. I think the word has a neutral connotation because it doesn't necessarily have a positive connotation, like the word "friend" does. It also doesn't imply anything negative.