Chapter 4 Flashcards
Anxiety
Diffuse state of being uneasy or worried about what may happen
Authoritarian personality
Type of individual who tends to overgeneralize and think and bipolar terms and who is highly conventional, moralistic, and uncritical of higher authority
Cultural relativism
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
Cultural Revolution
Mao Zedong’s attempts to purify China of outside influences and build a Marxist-Chinese culture
Cultural sensitivity
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)
Ethnocentrism
Negatively judging aspects of another culture by the standards of one’s own culture
Four modernizations
Deng Xiaoping’s economic programs in China and agriculture, industry, science and technology
Hong Kong
British Crown colony return to China in 1997
Macao
Portuguese colony returned to China in 1999
Prejudice
Irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race, religion, or sexual orientation
Profiling
Law-enforcement practice of scrutinizing certain individuals based on characteristics thought to indicate the likelihood of criminal behavior (see also racial profiling)
Stereotype
Judgment made about another solely on the basis of ethnic or other group membership
Taiwan
Republic of China located on the island of Formosa off the south eastern coast of China
Tibet
The country in South Asia and north of the Himalayas under the suzerainty, or overlordship, of China
True or false
Ethnocentrism impedes communication when we assume that a widely held belief is true of any one individual
False
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
E. All of the above
True or false
The 2001 US spyplane incident illustrates that political correctness and language is a serious matter for China.
True
True or false
Highly prejudiced individuals have been more likely to have an authoritarian personality
True
True or false
Assuming differences can be as much of a barrier to intercultural communication as assuming similarity
True
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.
False
And the reading from Benjamin Franklin, the representatives from the government of Virginia exhibited ethnocentrism when they offered their education to the Indian youth.
True
True or false
Japanese-born Koreans as the largest minority group in Japan no longer experience prejudice.
False
