Cultural Characteristics
Intercultural Communication Problems
Goals of Co-cultural Communication
Strategies to Improve Communication
Vocabulary
100
What type of cultures value individual freedom, choice, uniqueness, and independence?
What is Individualistic Culture
100
What are 3 Intercultural Communication problems?
What is Ethnocentrism, Prejudice, Stereotyping
100
In which goal of co-cultural communication does the marginalized group attempt to fit in with the dominant group?
What is Assimilation
100
Name 2 ways we can practice supportive communication behaviors.
What is Showing Empathy and Giving Encouragement
100
A unique combination of rituals, religious ways of thinking, and/or ways of behaving that unify a group.
What is a Culture
200
What type of culture tends to have many rules and rejects outsiders?
What is Uncertainty-rejecting Cultures
200
A generalization about someone or group of people that “oversimplifies” their culture, beliefs, or behavior
What is Stereotyping
200
Marginalized group manages to keep its identity while striving for positive relationships with the dominant cultures
What is Accommodation
200
How can we avoid Ethnocentrism?
Learn the strengths and weaknesses of your own beliefs by exploring others
200
The interaction of two or more people from different backgrounds
What is Intercultural Communication
300
What country is considered both Individualistic and Uncertainty-accepting?
What is The United States
300
The belief that your own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures
What is Ethnocentrism
300
Achieved when the marginalized group relates as exclusively as possible with its own group, and as little as possible with the dominant group
What is Separation
300
T or F: Effective communication encourages adaptation
True
300
A group that exists within a larger, dominant culture but differs from the dominant in some significant characteristics
What is a Sub-Culture
400
Views time as “contextually based and relationally oriented
What are Sometime Cultures
400
A generalization about someone or group of people that “oversimplifies” their culture, beliefs, or behavior
What is Stereotyping
400
Name the 3 goals of Subcultural Communication
What is Assimilation, Accommodation, Separation
400
Ability to use the verbal and nonverbal language appropriate to the cultural norms of the individual with whom you are communicating.
What is Code Sensitivity
400
The belief that another culture should be judged by its own context rather than the context of another culture
What is Cultural Relativism
500
Organizes time to meet personal needs, to separate task and social dimensions, and to point to the future.
What is On-Time Culture
500
What does the textbook say may be the best route to reducing prejudice?
What is Education
500
Which goal can be carried to an extreme with an 'in your face' aggressive attitude towards the minority group?
What is Separation
500
T or F: Feedback should be honest, specific, and clear
True
500
Being self-aware and learning from interactions with the intent of improving future interactions
What is Refelxivity
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