Importance
True or False? Biased remarks are blatantly obvious.
What is False?
Some biased remarks take a more subtle form, so subtle that you may not even notice the bias unless you’re a member of the group being discriminated against
These three major factors influence a country or region’s culture?
What are geography, history, and religion?
Lingua Franca translates to what phrase
What is common language?
You should do what with their customs, their values, their manners, and even their food and recreation?
What is Research?
A subtly biased remark that contributed to the misinformation about a culture or race
What is Microaggressions?
Why do microaggressions, such as subtle and unintentional insults, have a significant impact?
What is when experienced frequently in day-to-day interactions, these insults or slights toward marginalized groups can be damaging to the recipients’ mental health and have negative consequences for building trust and community?
This viewpoint regards time as something that must be planned to be used as efficiently as possible, making deadlines, punctuality, and efficiency of great importance.
What is monochronic?
One explanation for the lack of language equivalency is that there are grammatical differences among languages
Many nonnative English speakers are sensitive about their English proficiency, when trying to communicate with native English speakers they experience.
What is foreign language anxiety?
The collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another
What is Culture?
Why is the following scenario biased?... A female physician in clinical attire is mistaken for a nurse in a medical setting.
What is this reveals the assumption that doctors are typically male and nurses are typically female?
This type of culture has coherent, stable traditions and a strong group orientation, causing individuals to limit background info and rely on shared assumptions to provide unspoken context
What is high-context culture?
How many (minimum) people are involved in a situation where back translating is involved?
What is 4?
When in doubt, ask other participants if they have technology and communication media ____.
What is preferences?
The tendency to see only your only cultural programming as “normal”
What is ethnoecentrism?
Why is it important to be able to communicate cross-culturally?
What is being able to communicate cross-culturally will help you understand your international customers’ needs and persuasively explain how your company can meet these needs. This skill will also come into play when you need to work with suppliers, transportation managers, and government officials in different countries?
This superior-subordinate relationship features a strong boss with weak subordinates doing as the boss directs
What is high power distance?
Generalizing about a culture can perpetuate what?
What is stereotypes?
Communicating across cultures can be a broadening experience if you approach it with ____ and ____.
Openness and tolerance.
This is the type of culture where the communicators explicitly share all relevant background information when communicating.
What is Low-Context Culture?
What are two personal reasons why it is important to be able to communicate across different cultures?
What is to be a more effective employee within your company AND to develop professionally?
If you can work harmoniously with those from other cultures, you will help create a more comfortable and productive workplace
To be challenged, to grow, and to feel that your work has made a difference, broadening your global perspective will help you with all these goals
Individualism v. collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, cooperation v. competition, and long- v. short-term orientation are concepts developed by this sociologist.
Who is Hofstede?
What errors in grammatical writing can be especially damaging to your professional image because they showcase a low level of literacy?
What is personal pronouns?
True or False: When you catch yourself being taken aback by someone’s comments or behaviors, you should think before you take a negative view.
What is True?
How people view superior-subordinate relations can vary by culture.
What is Power Distance?