In the motion picture Star Trek, Captain Kirk and Spock have difficulties understanding each other primarily because of disagreements over decision making styles. Kirk makes decisions intuitively that Spock perceives as rash, while Spock makes very calculated decisions that Kirk dismisses as utilitarian and stoic. These two disagree because of differences in what cultural characteristics of relationships?
a. Universalism versus particularism
b. Specific versus diffuse
c. Achievement versus ascription
d. Neutral versus emotional
d. Neutral versus emotional
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Accounts of past events that are not included in national or mainstream history are known as ________ histories.
A. family B. hidden C. religious D. social
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