Cultural Faux Pas
Defining Culture
Metaphors for Culture
Our Changing World
Foundations of the Field
100

This Microsoft founder was criticized in South Korea for shaking the President's hand with his other hand in his pocket.

Who is Bill Gates?

100

For this book, culture is defined as the values, beliefs, attitudes, and these of a group of people.

What are behaviors?

100

In this popular metaphor, 90 percent of culture sits below the water line.

What is the iceberg?

100

This global event showed how interconnected economies are and how differently nations respond to a crisis.

What is the Covid-19 pandemic?

100

Anthropology, sociology, psychology, and communication are described as these four supports of management.

What are the four legs (of a chair)?

200

In Korean culture, a one-handed handshake is seen as this, something you'd do with a good friend or younger person.

What is too casual?

200

"Culture" comes from this Latin word meaning to grow or cultivate.

What is cultura?

200

In the iceberg model, nonverbal gestures, dress, and food are at this part of the iceberg.

What is the tip (what we see)?

200

In 2006 Starbucks started this club so 300 senior officials could study Mandarin and Chinese culture.

What is the China Club?

200

Edward T. Hall's 1959 book that launched the field of intercultural communication.

What is The Silent Language?

300

St. Ambrose's advice to St. Augustine about fasting became this familiar adage.

What is "When in Rome, do as the Romans do"?

300

Geert Hofstede's analogy describes culture as collective "software of" this.

What is the mind?

300

In the theatrical metaphor, customs, food, dress, and greetings are this "stage" of culture.

What is front-stage?

300

Bart Somers, mayor of this Belgian city, says "there are no immigrants" there, only citizens.

What is Mechelen?

300

Communication between people from different cultures, with the individual as the unit of analysis.

What is intercultural communication?

400

In this country, the subordinate is expected to bow lower than the boss.

What is Japan?

400

This anthropologist said culture is governed by hidden rules reflected in language and behavior, the "silent language."

Who is Edward T. Hall?

400

Back-stage culture is described as the "why" behind this.

What is the "what"?

400

More people speak this language natively than any other in the world.

What is Mandarin Chinese?

400

The comparison of communication differences across cultures rather than the interaction itself.

What is cross-cultural communication?

500

In China, you give and receive these with both hands while commenting on the other person's credentials.

What are business cards?

500

Because no one belongs to exactly the same groups as anyone else, Marshall Singer argued each person is this.

What is culturally unique?

500

In this C. S. Lewis story, Lucy can't explain to Mr. Tumnus why people shake hands.

What is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?

500

Two-thirds of residents of this small country speak at least four languages.

What is Luxembourg?

500

This retailer lost about $1 billion exiting Germany in 2006 after greeters, bagging, and union missteps.

What is Wal-Mart?