Chapter 1
The process commonly referred to as "___" has entered its third decade and continues to accelerate.
What is globalization?
To understand intercultural interaction, you must first recognize the role of ____ in that process.
What is communication?
The three most enduring and influential social organizations that deal with deep structures are family, ____, and religion.
What is state?
We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but know who we are.
-Leszek ____
What is Kolakowski?
The relationship between worldview, culture, and the study of intercultural cannot be _____.
What is overstated?
People throughout the world are becoming aware of the social and economic problems created by ____.
What is overpopulation?
Communicating with others satisfies some basic social needs by producing feelings of warmth, friendship, and a sense of ____ and affection.
What is inclusion?
The Chinese say that if you know the family, you do not need to know the ____.
What is individual?
History also provides identity, which can help unify people from differing ____ and cultures.
What is backgrounds?
A major ______ of religious worldview is that it provides a belief in the existence of a reality greater than humans.
What is characteristic?
Society can be defined from a general and a ____ perspective.
What is specific?
Your ability to communicate is a complex interplay between biology and ___.
What is culture?
Perhaps the most import and _____ influence of the family is in its transformation of a biological organism into a human being who must spend the rest of his or her life around other human beings.
What is powerful?
The valued placed on _____ in the United States has been heightened through folklore and the popular media.
What is individuality?
The link between the _____ and Christianity has roots that go back to the inception of the religion.
Personality consists of the ____ that are unique to an individual human being.
What is traits?
These social systems establish communication networks and regulate norms of personal, ____, and social conduct.
What is familial?
In the last few decades families throughout the world have undergone _____ changes that have altered the two prevailing forms of family.
What is numerous?
An appreciation of China's history is ____ to understanding Chinese culture.
What is central?
An aspect of _____ and death is that there are very few references to death or an afterlife in traditional Jewish writings.
What is Judaism?
Objectivity promotes learning to interact with and value distinct groups of people regardless of their culture, race, ____, religion, country, or gender.
What is ethnicity?
Culture is learned in a variety of ways and from a host of ____.
What is sources?
____ families connect a great many generations into a single unit.
What is bilateral?
"The Five Pillars of Islam" are statement of belief, ____, alms, fasting, and pilgrimage.
What is prayer?