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Required a 210 words response using the conflict style facework to address this conflict.

The school year calendar has been published, and the annual Winter School Assembly has been listed as the Christmas Program. Some Muslim and Jewish constituents have objected and have been joined by some other families. In the letter your team composes, what should the superintendent say to those who have raised objections here is the description of facework. 

Cultural Values and Conflict One general way to understand cultural variations in intercultural conflict reso- lution is to look at how cultural values influence conflict management. Face nego- tiation theory links cultural values to facework and conflict styles (Ting-Toomey, 2005). Facework refers to specific communication strategies we use to "save" our own or another person's face and is a universal concept; how we "do" facework varies from culture to culture and influences conflict styles. Communication scholar Ting-Toomey and her colleagues have conducted a number of studies showing that people from individualistic societies tend to be more concerned with saving their own face than another person's, so they tend to use more direct conflict management styles (Ting-Toomey & Oetzel, 2000, 2002).