"Terms"
This "term" is based on unique characteristics and experiences, which may differ from those of others in their cultural or social groups.
What is Personal (Individual) Identity?
The cultural term referring to the heritage that many tribal nations and members of those groups prefer a specific reference to their culture.
What is Native American?
The coexistence of many different cultural groups in one society.
What is Multiculturalism?
What is: language determines or influences one's thoughts?
What is an Expert?
This "term" is built on how we see ourselves and how others see us.
What is Identity?
Derives from the dominant influences of Spain and the Spanish language; the term is often used broadly to include people from Spain and Portugal as well as from the Americas.
What is Hispanic?
Differential treatment and harmful actions about minorities.
What is Discrimination?
This theory assumes that people choose to converge or diverge communication in intercultural conversations.
What is Communication Accommodation Theory?
This style of communication emphasizes the role of the individual as the focal point of the conversation, and conversations are more informal and less driven by status or hierarchy.
What is Personal?
This "term" for shared interpretations about beliefs, values, norms and social practices that affect a relatively large group of people.
What is Culture?
A cultural and linguistic term that includes "all groups in the Americas that share the Spanish language, culture, and traditions."
What is Latino or Latina?
The combination of different ethnic, religious, or cultural groups that makes a cohesive whole.
What is Diversity?
The use of two languages is an example of this.
What is Code Switching?
These are used in some cultures to impart a lesson, but do not have a clear, set ending. Instead, the importance and interpretations are left up to the reader.
What is a Parable or Story?
A "term" meaning social institutions and categories determine who we are.
What is Social Identity?
This term refers to Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Malaysian Americans, Korean Americans, and people from many other cultures geographically oriented.
What is Asian American?
Learning about your own beliefs, value, norms and social practices AND understanding the forces that create cultural differences are examples of this.
What is Improving Intercultural Competence?
The non-verbal cue of raised eyebrows, widened eyes, and an open mouth (last for one second) indicates this emotion.
What is Sadness?
A style of persuasion that seeks to establish an idea (conclusion) by using an anecdote, a story, a parable in which there is an explicit lesson to be learned.
What is Analogical Style?
The "term" meaning that socially constructed categories teach us a way of behaving.
What is Cultural Identity?
Refers to the "multiple-heritage experience of Mexicans in the United States and speaks to a political and social consciousness of the Mexican-American.
What is Chicano (or Chicana)
Attitudes about a group (usually negative) and not based on facts.
What is Prejudge?
One of the five rule systems that comprise verbal codes, this is specific to the relationship of words to one another. "The cat sat on the mat" is an example.
What is Syntactic (Syntax)?
This term means that each culture will have a different perception of logic and rationality: what one's culture deems "truth" might not be congruent with another culture's view of "truth."
What is Ethno-Logic?