Instructions: This assignment is the 3rd part of an Discussion Post. Posted below is Part 1 and Part 2 for you to refernce, you must keep to the same CPC(Dog Owner) and be sure you are staying in tune with the other two discussion posts.Must be between 400-800 words.

• Remind us of your Class Proclaimed Culture (CPC)
• Explain where your CPC falls with regards to Power Distance (Low Power Distance OR High Power Distance)
• Then, in a separate paragraph, explain where your CPC falls with regards to it being Individualistic OR Collectivistic.
• Be sure to be specific for each categorization. It does not help us to understand your culture when we say, "It is a little low power distance AND high power distance" – select one. Think about where your CPC leans to help us to really understand the culture. This is the same for individualistic and collectivistic. Select one to really help us to see how your CPC operates.
• One category is not better than the other, they are simply ways to understand how the culture operates. Don't place values on the categories. Being low power distance isn't better than high power distance, or vice versa.
• Think about your culture. If there are competitions, one person gets paid more than the other, certain people get offices, and/or one leader – really think what that says about the culture with regards to power distance and being individualistic or collectivistic.
• You can give us examples to help us to understand how these play out.
• REMEMBER: This is about your CPC, not YOU. We don’t want to hear if you are high power distance or if you are individualistic or collectivistic – we WANT to hear how your CPC operates

CPC: DOG OWNER CULTURE: Discussion Board Part 1

What I will use for myself is the dog owner culture as my CPC. I grew up with dogs and have now had my dog for over 12 years. My dog is honestly like my right arm, I feel very lost without her. As time has gone on people have made their pets more and more like humans in their lives opposed to just animals and that is how I feel about my dog. The dog owner culture is is made up of anyone who has a dog and treats it within the boundaries of a very important part of their life.

People in the dog culture range from any ethnicity, age, demographic, and breed. There is no set rule for this culture but it is known without discussion that in the dog culture your dog is one of your top priorities. The dog culture can be found throughout anywhere in the US, with over 70 million US homes owning a dog. I know this because of some research I did on my own prior to this assignment about dog owners for another class.

There are also sub cultures within the dog culture. This can be bred specific or it can be based on the area. When we look at San Diego alone, it is known to be a place where dog culture is huge. Most places you go are going to be dog friendly and are going to embrace the dog culture, some restaurants even have dog menus. No matter on the city, town, or state there will be a community of dog owners who are a part of the dog owner culture.

I would title dog owners as a low context culture. There is lots of communication, engagement and verbal cues between dogs and owners as well as within the dog owner culture. You wouldn't just meet someone and know oh they have a dog unless that open line of communication happened and you would discover they were part of your culture. Bonding over pictures of animals, petting each other dogs, and telling stories about your pets to one another is a large part of dog owner culture. You want to be open and friendly and participative when a part of the dog owner culture, one can not just assume they are a part of it just by walking into the dog part.

Part 2 Discussion Board

There is a huge piece of camaraderie in the dog culture. People want the connections, they want the relationships between other dog owners. It is a culture that is warm, welcoming, and always happy to see another dog owner become a part of it.The full stimulus-response model retains its focus on having a quantitative response based on a quantitative stimulus. It forms part of class conditioning concepts that insist on pairing a response with a subject's stimuli mechanism. In dog cultures, the geographic sub-culture intimates that some areas apply their system and mechanism of stimuli prompting the dogs to answer in specific ways. San Diego operates a different dog culture from Texas. San Diego awards priority to a dog's feeding mechanism leading to such dogs displaying a high level of closeness to their owners. In Texas, the state has a reputation of having many loose dogs due to the rather lax attitude visible between the owners, community, and society in feeding these dogs (Hallman, 2018). Food has remained one of the most reliable tactics of classical conditioning in dogs, and its provision across various geographies can determine how the dogs activate quantitative responses. The full stimuli process gives way to the full perception process.

The full perception process works on information processing and filtering within the process of aiding interpretation. Under this mechanism, organisms achieve full perception based on previous experiences(Caeiro et al., 2017). People treat dogs according to breed, leading to breed-specific sub-cultures. Chihuahuas bred in Europe and transferred in Africa will apply a consistent and constant perception process. The German shepherd has always brought up a remarkably consistent behavioral mannerism regardless of the physical location. The breeds may bring out a slight differentiation reaction to a change of environment. However, the biological factors in the perception construction process remain supreme. A grand case study of the perception presence as relevant in the dog culture remains the aggression displayed by some breeds and passive responses brought out by others. At no given time will a Chihuahua react in a similarly aggressive manner as a German Shepherd. Breed-specific areas go beyond the low context subcultures of communication.

The standpoint theory promotes the low context subcultures through the insistence on knowledge formation as the foundation to socialization. Low context sub-cultures inform how a dog relates with the owner creating a unique relationship (Caeiro et al., 2017). If a dog's owner allocates time to the dog, invests in close communication such as non-verbal cues and becomes emotionally responsive to the dog's needs, the dog will positively respond to such a relationship. It is easily possible to detect dog-owner intimacy based on the forms of knowledge exchange between the dog and its owners. Creating a social system proceeds to then define how an owner communicates to their dog. If they whistle every day upon reaching home, the dog will absorb that kind of socialization. The standpoint theory qualifies dogs as social animals willing to firmly participate in owner-dog socialization processes.