Me vs. We

                      A collectivist culture would likely consider the following traits ideal: cooperative, enthusiastic, and flexible.  While an individualistic society would value these traits: courage, determined and self-confident. Elders and people with a more professional distinction would be individualistic, they want success for themselves. Elderly people may need help from other people, but they still want success for themselves.  A teacher would likely struggle switching between a collectivist and individualist group.  A group of collectivist students would be more likely to work better in a group than a group of individualistic students. The way in which the teacher teaches should depend on the type of students. An acquaintance is someone one are familiar with but do not really know. One may have talked to that person once or twice, but never really made an effort to really get to know that person. The word has a slightly negative connotation, because if one says that someone else is an acquaintance that person really hasn’t strived to learn more about his or her acquaintance.