ABSTRACT
Standards are everywhere, from the size of your credit cards to the way com-
puters systems exchange data to the size of the faucet opening (and threading)
to how you find a book in the library. They allow commerce to proceed
with minimum confusion and conflict. In addition, standards also represent
examples of how cross-cultural communication is supposed to work, because
standards are documents that are to be culturally neutral so as to be accessible
and acceptable to users in any culture. Therefore, teachers can use standards as
tools to teach students about cross-cultural communications in an industrial or
corporate context.
