In a collectivist culture, the personality traits family like, kind, open minded, and follower are considered ideal. In a individualism culture, independent, unique, and leader are ideal. An problem is an individualist teacher has her own lesson plan and goes to a collectivist culture where all the teachers have a collectivist lesson plan. The conflict is both internal and external. The individualist thinks her way is the way and the collectivist teachers think their way is the way. An acquaintance is someone you have met a couple times but do not have close relations with. I think it has a positive connotation because it doesn't sound negative and alot of people have people in their lives that they consider "acquaintances."