7.1
Intercultural Communication
Intercultural Communication
What is Culture Shock?
This is where you encounter a unfamiliar culture and their beliefs and practices are hard to understand and usually has a negative reaction.
What is the difference between high and low power cultures?
In the high power cultures the gap between the people who have power is very large from the people who have little to no power, where low power cultures the gap is a lot less.
What is ethnocentrism?
This is where one culture thinks that they are better and evaluate every other cultures practices are wrong.
What is identification?
This is believed to increase the shared meaning and improve communication through different cultures.
What is Diffusion of Information?
This is a two step process to persuade a culture to adopt a message and change.
What is intercultural communication?
Sharing information across different cultures and social groups.
Name at least 3 of the cultures that were talked about in this section?
Collectivist and Individualist
High and low context
High and low power
What is cultural Hegemony?
This means the attempt by one culture to dominate the thinking or worldviews of all other cultures.
What is Division?
This is where the worldviews of different cultures differ.
What is digital divide?
This is the gap between people who are wealthy and have access to the internet and people who are poor and do not have access to the internet.
What is the difference between Enculturation and Acculturation?
What is the difference between uncertainty avoidance and uncertainty acceptance?
There is uncertainty with understand different cultures that are not your own but with uncertainty avoidance the other beliefs of a culture are interpreted as bad, on the other hand uncertainty acceptance is where a culture accepts the beliefs of another culture.
In the world how many households is Nickelodeon in?
500 million worldwide.
What is Burkes strategy to persuade?
This is by studying about a culture and completely immersing yourself within it.
What is the difference between a homophilous social system and a heterophilous social system?
The difference is in the homophilous social system people are very strict on their time schedules and only usually schedule one thing at a time, whereas a heterophilous social system where people usually schedule a lot all at once.