Collectivism vs Individualism

In a collectivist culture, what personality traits are likely to be considered ideal? What about an individualist culture?

For individualistic cultures, ambition. drive and individuality would be considered good traits. Collectivist cultures would value, loyalty, hard work, and other such attributes. 

In what type of culture might elders or people who have professional distinction receive more respect and less challenge from people lower on their culture's/group's hierarchy? Explain your answer.

This would be in an individualistic culture, as those are the cultures that value the person over the group. Individualist communities are all about the status of individuals rather than the group.

Create a specific problem a teacher may encounter when he/she moves from teaching in a collectivist culture to an individualist culture or vice versa. Explain the specific values/influences/obligations/desires caused by the clash. 

A teacher moving from a collectivist country to an individualistic country might not be able to handle the competitiveness of students or the ambition of a singer person rather than a group. Vice versa, the teacher might have issues handling the group mind set over the individuality of the person.

What is an acquaintance? Does the word have a positive or negative connotation? Explain. 

An acquaintance is someone you know well enough and like to talk to, but someone you would not call a friend or be able to say a lot about their personal life. This typically would have a neutral connotation though it may become negative if one person considers someone an acquaintance but they confider the other as a friend.