Cultural Impacts from Personalities

Another cultural impact that characters in the office experience that is unique to their group are the combined ethnic groups. Minority ethnicities in The Office are comprised of Oscar, a Hispanic, Kelly, an Indian, and Stanley, an African American. In several episodes, race is discussed amongst the characters in terms of how they function in the office on a daily basis. One memorable episode consists of Michael deciding to show how he knows how to recognize diversity and having a "race recognition day" in which he has each member of the office tape a 3x5 card to their forehead. Each card has the name of a different ethnicity on it, and no one knows what their "designated ethnicity" is.
They are told to walk around and converse with different people about the race that each person is representing. This makes for some awkward conversation as people try to focus only on the ethnic points of each race. The fact that race and ethnicity goes beyond culture is lost on Michael; in a comical way, he does not realize that individuals representing different parts of the world can all reach a common ground of communication while still maintaining their cultural identity.

This episode shows, in a comic way, how characters on The Office celebrate their differences and are able to work together-oftentimes in a disrupted manner, for the sake of hilarity on the show-to provide individual input on important matters pertaining to the office.

The Culture of The Office

The characters in The Office display a variety of unique practices for their particular group. These actions set them apart and make them a unique people group. For example, all the characters know each other very well, down to all their little quirks. One rather comical way this showed itself is when Jim and Pam are planning their wedding in season six. They are planning to have a quiet wedding with only close family members and friends, but when their coworkers automatically assume that they are all invited to the wedding and make plans to attend before ever being formally invited by the couple, Jim and Pam must make accomodations for them. Because they know the individual personality of each person they work with, they know without attempting it that if they did not invite their coworkers, said coworkers would hold it against them for the rest of their lives. The fact that everyone naturally assumed that they were invited to the wedding gives a glimpse into the way that they think, assuming many things which shouldn't be assumed. This plays out in interesting ways in many different other episodes.

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Story

The Office is a TV show that highlights the daily lives of several people who work together in the office of a paper supply company. Their interactions with each other can oftentimes range on the incalculacable, meaning that they will go to any extreme in order to get their way and avoid losing in the game of life to someone else less competent than themselves. Dealing with various medical issues ranging from Spontaneous Dental Hydroplosion to Pretendonitis, the members of the office continually work not only to sell paper but sell themselves at times in order to gain the upperhand against their rival coworkers.

The Office Dictionary

Stapler: an object specifically used for placing in jello to insight Dwight’s wrath.

Cardboard: a means of replacing Dwight’s chair, desk, and office supplies with in order to create havoc on Dwight’s part

Incalculacable: The immeasuribility to grasp what Michael's four heroes, Bob Hope, Abraham Lincoln, Bono, and God have done for the world.

Count Choculitis: Jim's medical condition he wants health insurance coverage on in honor of Dwight's love for Count Chocula.

Spontaneous Dental Hydroplosion: where your teeth turn to liquid and slowly drip down the back of your throat

Pretendonitis: Dwight is diagnosed by his office peers as having this disease (episode 3 season 3)
---Pam and Jim would hum the same high-pitched note and try to get Dwight to make an appointment with an ear doctor.

Michael's Wisdom

Word of the Day: Incalculacable

Incalculacable: (Adjective)The measurment to which Michael views the influence his four heros, Bob Hope, Abraham Lincoln, Bono, and God had on the world. "It's simply beyond words. It's incalculacable."

Michael Scott-isms: "I need to be approachabler"

Medical Terminology of the Office

Count Choculitis: (Noun) Dwight's dilemma of loving Count Chocula too much for comfort

Spontaneous Dental Hydroplosion(Noun) When your teeth turn to liquid and slowly drip down the back of your throat

Government Created Killer nano Robot Infection: (Noun) Apparently too dangerous for anyone on the show to publicly define

Pretendonitis: (Noun) Dwight's hearing loss. Jim and Pam make Dwight think he is losing his hearing, and encourage him to get it checked out.

"In the medical community, 'negative' means 'good.' Which makes absolutely no sense." -Michael

Word of the Day: Flunkerton

Flunkerton (Noun) A game created by Jim during the Office Olympics. Derived from the National Sport of the Icelandic Paper Companies. Translated, means "box of paper snow shoe racing."

Jim's Daily Jokes

Jim is the office brains. As such, he recognizes all the mistakes that Michael and Dwight use and is subsequently squelched whenever he tries to suggest the correct way to do it. Jim is the mastermind behind many jokes played on Dwight, including putting Dwight's stapler in jello, replacing his desk and chair with cardboard wrapped in wrapping paper, and sends him strange messages through IM, Bluetooth, or fax.

“Sometimes I send Dwight faxes from himself in the future.” “Dear Dwight, at 8am someone will poison the coffee. Do not drink the coffee. More instructions will follow. Cordially, future Dwight.” (episode 7 season 3) Jim uses language as it best suits him for every particular time and place.

Dwight's Daily Damper

Dwight is second-in-command (assistant to the regional manager) and takes his calling very seriously. In his mind, he is actually regional manager. That’s why he takes care of Michael so well, in the hopes that when Michael gets promoted he will get Michael’s position. Dwight is smarter than anyone else, not only in the entire office, but also in the entire world. Vocabulary consists a lot of him correcting other’s incorrect speech, as well as just correcting people in general. Dwight is the brunt of many jokes played on him by Jim and Pam, and reciprocates the favors by creating his own revenge back upon them.