Culture and Communication
What is "Culture"?
Culture is the system of shared values, beliefs, attitudes, and orientations, learned through communication
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What is a "Low Context Culture"?
Culture in which message meanings are usually encoded in the verbal part of the message
What is "Anxiety"?
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.
What is "Intercultural Competence"?
Effective and appropriate behavior and communication in intercultural situations.
What are "Values"?
Values are the commonly accepted preference for some states of affairs over others
How is someone classified by "Race"
biological traits such as skin and eye color, hair texture, and body shape.
What is a "High Context Culture"?
Real meaning of a message is indirect and can only be accurately decoded by referring to unwritten cultural rules and subtle nonverbal behavior.
What is "Ethnocentrism"?
Focusing on one’s own culture and viewing it as more important than the cultures of others
What are "Requisite Attitudes"?
These attitudes are respect, openness, and curiosity or discovery when learning about another culture.
What are "Ideal Values"?
Ideal values are those that members of a culture profess to hold.
How are people classified by "Ethnicity"
National characteristics such as country of birth, geo-graphic origin, language, religion, ancestral customs, and tradition.
What is a "Individualistic Culture"?
Culture that values personal rights and responsibilities, privacy, voicing one’s opinion, freedom, innovation, and self-expression
What is "Stereotyping"?
Assuming everyone from a similar group or culture is the same.
What is "Ethno-relativism"?
A point of view that allows you to see the value in other cultural perspectives.
What are "Real Values"?
Real values of the culture are those that can be seen guiding the actual behavior of members of that culture.
What is "Religion"
Religion is a system of beliefs, rituals, and ethics based on a common perception of the sacred or holy.
What is a Collectivist Culture?
Culture that values community, collaboration, shared interests, harmony, the public good, and avoiding embarrassment
What are "Incompatible Communication Codes"?
Different variations in our spoken language.
What is required to become competent in intercultural interactions?
Develop a deep understanding of the culture, including history, worldview, values, and customs.
What role does communication play in culture?
communication is the way that culture is transmitted to members.
What is "Culture Identity"?
Part of your self-image that is based on the cultural group or groups with which you most closely associate and align yourself.
What is a "Power Distance"?
It it the extent to which members of a culture expect and accept that power will be unequally shared.
What are "Incompatible Norms and Values"?
Something that may be deemed as necessary in respect for one culture could also be highly offensive in another culture.
List the order of the pyramid of intercultural competence from bottom to top
Top row: Desired External Outcome
Second Row: Desired Internal Outcome
Third Row: Knowledge and Comprehension / Skills
Bottom Row: Requisite Attitudes