Culture Shock
What is Culture Shock?
A feeling of disorientation experienced when encountering communicative events disruptive of one’s expected routine.
What is Individualism?
Is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, or social outlook that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual.
What is the Inarticulate?
Goods that cannot be defined or pinpointed with precision, but nevertheless shape and nurture a culture’s communicative life and practices.
What is "the guest"?
Someone who apricates and respects the culture they interact with.
This country is known as the holy land?
Israel.
What is a sensible reaction to Culture Shock?
What is learning?
What part of the world or more specifically what country has a dominant cultural assumption?
What is the West—the United States.
What begins the movement towards change?
Public agreement.
What is the role of the guest?
Who participates in foreign activities and who learns.
This ethnic group feels entitled to Israel.
Jewish people.
What is our first reaction when we experience Culture Shock?
To find those like us.
The Native American culture is a _____ culture?
Collectivist culture.
What implies that something is greater than the sum of its parts?
What is gestalt?
What is a stranger?
Someone who wants conformity in a foreign culture.
What is the most unethical event that has occurred to Jewish people in the last century?
The Holocaust.
What is the difference between shock and surprise?
Shock occurs when encountering something new or unexpected. Surprise occurs when encountering an unusual turn of events.
Most members of an individualistic culture assume that each communicator engages an action or idea __________.
Autonomously
Definition: With the freedom to act independently.
What is suggested to be the foundations for moral and ethical beliefs?
Qualitative distinctions.
What movie was super important in terms of Asian representation in Hollywood?
Crazy Rich Asians
These two ethnic groups have had conflicting interests in Israel for years.
What is Israelis' and Arabs.
Why do you experience fatigue when you encounter culture shock?
Because we meet communicative cultural events that act as rhetorical interruptions in our lives.
Who coined the term individualism?
Alexis de Tocqueville.
What works as an anchor for understanding the "good" and the "right"?
A cultural background.
If someone assimilates into a culture what do they become?
An indweller.
What "good" has Israel preserved better than any other country?
Trees.