Abstract
The scene takes place during the last day of January. The first semester students had organised a party in Potatisen, afterwards we all went to the Arena (a night club). The party was planned to start at 8 pm, and everyone had been told to buy some alcohol for himself. The party began a bit earlier at our accommodation and I got to know the people I was living with a bit better.
An hour later, students from other accommodation halls arrived (Campus Futurum and Rosenborg). After everybody arrived and I must admit began to be a little bit drunk we all moved to the Arena at around 11pm. Dancing and drinking in the night club was a very good way of meeting people. At 2 am the club closed and we all went back home together. Once at home, the party kept going on for some of us while others decided to go to bed to be able to wake up to go to class the next day!
The example of this first situation I have been confronted to can highlight different concepts that we studied in the Intercultural Communication class. In "Culture & Organizations" by G. Hofstede, the power distance is defined as "the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally".
This concept explains the differences of equality and inequality in a society in terms of power distirbution, and how people deal with it. Each country has a different approach to this concept that is function of their own history and culture, but also the way people feel with it. This concept refers to the relation between people and the hierarchy that emerge from these relations.
