Cultural Norms and Values
This is a major reason that one's culture shapes how they communicate.
What are differences between norms, values, or unwritten expectations?
Skateboarding is an example of this type of subdivision of culture.
What is a subculture?
Volunteering personal information to people from another culture with whom you want to communicate describes this.
What is self-disclosure?
This term describes communication between people from different cultures.
What is intercultural communication?
Communication researchers define this number of main axes which distinguish communication between cultures.
What is six?
Sexual orientation is an example of this type of subdivision of culture.
What is a coculture?
This type of communication has no need to be face-to-face, and can involve people from different backgrounds across the world.
What is the internet?
This term describes an unfair bias and intolerant attitude towards others who belong to an out-group.
What is prejudice?
These countries are examples of cultures which tend towards collectivism (i.e., a focus on others rather than oneself).
What are China, Korea, or Japan?
This is a social construct that refers to the degree to which a person identifies with a group, usually on the basis of nationality or culture.
What is ethnicity?
This is the willingness to accept ideas from other cultures.
What is open-mindedness?
This term refers to the belief that one's own culture is superior to another's.
What is ethnocentrism?
"Power distance" refers to this concept.
What is the level to which one is expected to be subservient and respectful towards individuals of differing social status?
A social construct that describes a group of people who share physical and cultural traits and potentially a common ancestry.
What is race?
Noticing the behaviors of members from a different culture and applying these insights to communicate effectively describes this.
What is passive observation?
This term describes the dominance of one culture over another.
What is hegemony?
This term describes whether members of a culture use straightforward communication or unspoken/situational cues to convey information.
What are high and low context?
A social construct historically defined by a binary which has more recently been understood to be much more broad and fluid across individuals.
What is gender or gender identity?
This method of improving intercultural communication may involve researching the norms of other cultures, consulting experts and members of those cultures, and taking academic courses on diversity.
What are active strategies?
This term describes an evidenced theory that prejudice lessens in populations with a greater volume of intercultural interactions.
What is contact hypothesis?