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why is it important to understand the power relationship to history?
It’s important to allow multiple stories in our society to have a whole understanding, if there’s only one story that’s the one that will be considered true even if it’s not
what are possible dangers of a single story in intercultural communications?
-who controls the present controls the past
-whoever tells the story of history benefits from it
-the one who tells the story can paint the other as whatever they would like, if no more stories come to the surface, that group of people will be cast off as sometime they are not and could negative affect their whole group in the future simply based off one story
what are the four conflict managing styles?
- direct approach: precise and specific language
- indirect approach: vague and nonspecific language
- Emotionally-expressive approach: overly display of one’s feelings
- restraint approach: control and internalize one’s feeling during conflict
What are the two orientations to conflict
-Conflict as opportunity: working through conflicts constructively
-Conflict as destruction: avoids conflict and sometimes seeks intervention from a third party
What is the meaning of face in intercultural communication?
- Metaphor for our public image
-desired self-image
-emotional significance of our self-worth and identity (ex: respect, honor, status, reputation, credibility, competence…)
What are the three face orientations?
Self-face concern:
Other face concern:
Mutual face concern:
what are the characteristics of face negotiation in relation to cultural context?
Face negotiation and individualism:
-Focuses on self-face
-conflict management: overt, direct and expressive
Face negotiation and Collectivism:
-Greater focus on other-face and mutual face concerns
-Conflict management: avoiding / accommodating behavior
-cumulative, long-term process
what are the symptoms of culture shock?
-Physical symptoms:
1. headache
2. lethargy
3. sleep problems
4. loss of appetite
5. digestive irregularities
-Psychological symptoms:
1. Irritability
2. Anger over minor frustrations
3. Confusion about morals and values
4. Feeing moody, isolated and insecure
what are the four stages of culture adaptation?
- Anticipation (honeymoon stage) - excitement; down play negative emotions. (first few days or weeks)
- Culture shock - frustration, isolation, and homesickness, idealize home culture. (6-8 weeks or longer)
- Adjustment- still adjusting and feel a little bit of an outsider, feel normal again and become more comfortable; accept and tolerate.
- Acceptance (bicultural)- feel at home, and appreciate and many things you will miss. function equally in both cultures.
what are the advantages and challenges of being a third culture kid?
-Challenges:
Difficulty making friends because of constant moving, trust issues of losing the friends they make, difficulty making deep connections and relationships, identity crisis of cultural belonging
-Advantages:
Speak more than on language, adaptive, have a broader world view and be more culturally aware.
what are the different migrant-host relationships?
-Integration: Retaining original culture and adopting elements of host culture
-Separation: Retaining original culture and keeping a distance from host culture
-Assimilation: Forgeting original culture and adopting host culture
-Marginalization: Rejecting original culture and rejecting host culture
How can we understand the perspective of history as narratives?
-Histories are stories that we use to make sense of who we are and who we think others are.
-When we are thought history, we are also taught a particular way of viewing the world
what are the unique characteristics of intercultural conflict?
- Language
- Ambiguity (of verbal and non-verbal communication)
- Conflicting cultural values (including different orientations to conflicts)
- Contradictory conflict managing styles
What is Face Negotiation Theory?
-people in all cultures try to maintain face in all communication situations
-face-concerns influence how we manage conflict
Why do people experience reverse culture shock?
-reverse-culture shock: the emotional and psychological distress suffered by some people when they return home after a number of years overseas.
-you are already accustomed to the new environment, new society that you are in, going back home might be uncomfortable. people grow and change with time and the things
