Frame Switching And Intellectual Analysis

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I’m an Asian that is the first generation born to immigrants to a western culture country in South-America, and raised in a Protestant environment. My upbringing is bicultural and I was relieved that it is an option, because depending on the situation or person I suffer from “frame-switching” just like in the reading material (Triandis & Suh, 2002, p. 145). When it comes to my family and in general older people, I’m very respectful as the traditional collectivist culture and like a lot of Asian cultures also adopted the need for individual hard work to achieve respect and status in society which fits in an individualist culture. I believe that an collectivist will obey an authority figure more, because he believes the collective put him in

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