The executives from Carlo Foods, United States, are in Japan to negotiate with Jeong, the head of a local investment firm. While Jeong listens to their plans, he realizes that there are considerable amounts of calculation errors in the market statistics involved in the plan. He starts showing signs of impatience and folds his hands, with a frown on his face. The executives realize that something is wrong and are confused about it. Jeong most likely belongs to a:

Answer:High-context culture

Explanation:

High-context culture definition:

This is the type of culture in which communication is mostly dependent on body language, the tone of their voice or their status without using straight communication.

It is opposite of low context cultures which their communication is mostly based on using actual words and rules are clearly stated.

Individuals from high-context cultures have tight relationships which are not easily outgrown but are mostly everlasting ones. Since they have closest relationships they understand all the ways of communications that are used without having to be told about them so these rules are unspoken but known and may be difficult for a foreigner to know them.

Since Jeong is from Japan and Asian countries are one of the countries with High-context cultures he is probably finding it hard to express himself in words how he feels about the situation and as a result he uses what he is more used to which is to use the body langauge.

Some common characteristics of high-context cultures include:

They are more reliant on body langauge for communication such as facial expressions as Jeong does in the above text.

Non verbal elements speak louder than words under these cultures.

Interpersonal relationships are values the most like in Asian countries and African countries where one can still find many extended families.

Establishing trust first is crucial.