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Question: Imagine that you recently graduated from San José State University and received an offer for employment (management trainee position) at a midsize multinational firm located in the Bay Area. Now imagine that your supervisor is about to depart next week on a monthlong business trip to meet potential clients in The Netherlands, Finland, Namibia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Fiji, and Australia. As international business/marketing is one of your areas of expertise, your supervisor asks you to prepare a cultural brief dealing with the national and business cultures of the countries that she will be visiting. Using sources in the library (https://library.sjsu.edu Links to an external site.) and the internet, choose one of the countries mentioned above and research general cultural issues such as basic cultural norms, values, and beliefs that may affect work (e.g., attitudes toward work in general, food and diet, the role of religion, language, etc.) In addition, research specific business relevant cultural issues such as expectations regarding appointments (meeting times), business card etiquette, formal titles and forms of address, greetings, gestures, gift giving, language of business, interaction styles and potential reactions to a woman executive. For the country you selected, please identify two cultural issues that