Chapter 4

Question 1

Anxiety

Answer 1

Diffuse state of being uneasy or worried about what may happen

Question 2

Authoritarian personality

Answer 2

Type of individual who tends to overgeneralize and think and bipolar terms and who is highly conventional, moralistic, and uncritical of higher authority

Question 3

Cultural relativism

Answer 3

Theory from anthropology that the differences in people are the results of historical, social, and geographic conditions and that all populations of complete an equally developed cultures

Question 4

Cultural Revolution

Answer 4

Mao Zedong’s attempts to purify China of outside influences and build a Marxist-Chinese culture

Question 5

Cultural sensitivity

Answer 5

Making no value judgments based on one’s own cultural values about other cultures practices or artifacts (I. E., Better or worse, right or wrong)

Question 6

Ethnocentrism

Answer 6

Negatively judging aspects of another culture by the standards of one’s own culture

Question 7

Four modernizations

Answer 7

Deng Xiaoping’s economic programs in China and agriculture, industry, science and technology

Question 8

Hong Kong

Answer 8

British Crown colony return to China in 1997

Question 9

Macao

Answer 9

Portuguese colony returned to China in 1999

Question 10

Prejudice

Answer 10

Irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race, religion, or sexual orientation

Question 11

Profiling

Answer 11

Law-enforcement practice of scrutinizing certain individuals based on characteristics thought to indicate the likelihood of criminal behavior (see also racial profiling)

Question 12

Stereotype

Answer 12

Judgment made about another solely on the basis of ethnic or other group membership

Question 13

Taiwan

Answer 13

Republic of China located on the island of Formosa off the south eastern coast of China

Question 14

Tibet

Answer 14

The country in South Asia and north of the Himalayas under the suzerainty, or overlordship, of China

Question 15

True or false

Ethnocentrism impedes communication when we assume that a widely held belief is true of any one individual

Answer 15

False

Question 16

Among the issues that create communication barriers with China are:
A. Economic issues
B. Human rights issues
C. The status of Taiwan
D. The status of Tibet
E. All of the above

Answer 16

E. All of the above

Question 17

True or false

The 2001 US spyplane incident illustrates that political correctness and language is a serious matter for China.

Answer 17

True

Question 17

True or false

Highly prejudiced individuals have been more likely to have an authoritarian personality

Answer 17

True

Question 18

True or false

Assuming differences can be as much of a barrier to intercultural communication as assuming similarity

Answer 18

True

Question 19

True or false
Ethnocentrism refers to not knowing what one is expected to do and intercultural and counter and as a consequence not being totally present in the communication.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

And the reading from Benjamin Franklin, the representatives from the government of Virginia exhibited ethnocentrism when they offered their education to the Indian youth.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

True or false

Japanese-born Koreans as the largest minority group in Japan no longer experience prejudice.

Answer 21

False