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Chapter 8 Flashcards

1
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The movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland

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Diaspora

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Due to this, increasing cultural diversity within the US, and the Internet, understanding intercultural communication is vital

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travel abroad programs

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Studying intercultural communication can lead to success in these contexts

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Domestic and international business contexts

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Lack of attention to this can lead to costly disasters in business effectiveness

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Cultural factors

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Fostering interethnic relations calls for this

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Peacebuilding

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Working toward stability in a region to prevent conflicts from escalating into war

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peace building

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T/F: People are not motivated to solve “intractable conflicts”

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True

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Studying of intercultural communication can increase this by making us more aware of our own cultural identity and communication patterns

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Increase self-awareness

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This may depend on your social and economic position

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Enhanced self awareness

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Communication that occurs in interactions between people who are culturally different

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Intercultural communication

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Learned patterns of perceptions, values, and behaviors shared by a group of people

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Culture

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Culture is ____, ____, and operates within

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Dynamic
Heterogeneous (diverse)
Operates within societal power structures

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Diverse

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heterogeneous

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Many people live in what kind of environments?

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Multicultural environments

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People who live between cultures and often experience contradictory cultural patterns

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Border dwellers

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What are 3 ways to become a border dweller?

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  1. travel
  2. socialization
  3. participation in an intercultural relationship
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People who are border dwellers by choice for an extended time, such as immigrants

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Voluntary long-term travelers

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People who are border dwellers by choice and for a limited time, such as study-abroad students or corporate personnel

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Voluntary short-term travelers

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People who are border dwellers permanently but not by choice, such as those who relocate to escape war

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Involuntary long-term travelers

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People who are border dwellers not by choice and for only a limited time, such as refugees forced to move

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Involuntary short-term travelers

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What are 2 types of challenges for border dwellers?

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  1. culture shock

2. reverse culture shock/reentry shock

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A feeling of disorientation and discomfort due to the lack of familiar environmental cues

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Culture shock

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Culture shock experienced by travelers upon returning to their home country

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Reverse culture shock/reentry shock

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Multiple ? may exist because of one’s race, sexual orientation, or religion

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Cultural realities

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Attempts to do this may lead to exclusion, pressure to assimilate, or cultural limbo

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Enact identities

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T/F: Attitudes toward intercultural relationships have improved in recent decades

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True

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What is the best way to promote growth?

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open communication

28
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Negotiating cultural tensions on the borders requires?

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flexibility and adaptability

29
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People who feel disintegrated by having to shift cultures

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Encapsulated marginal people

30
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People who thrive in a border-dweller life, while recognizing its tremendous challenges

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Constructive marginal people

31
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Beliefs that are so central to a cultural group that they are never questioned

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Cultural values

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A value orientation that respects the autonomy and independence of individuals

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Individualist orientation

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A value orientation that stresses the needs of the group

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Collectivist orientation

34
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What orientation is the us

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individualist orientation

35
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These cultures have a nuclear family household

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individualistic cultures

36
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In individualistic cultures, children are ____ and parents are expected to not be a what?

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Autonomous (live on their own by late adolescence)

- not to be a burden on their children when they age

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A value orientation that expresses whether it is more important for a person to “do” or “be”

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Preferred personality

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Working to achieve material gain

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“doing mode”

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Importance of experiencing life and relationships

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“Being mode”

40
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A value orientation that expresses whether humans are fundamentally good, evil, or a mixture

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View of human nature

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This view includes rehabilitation and innocent until proven guilty

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Humans as good

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This view includes punishment and incarceration

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Humans as evil

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The perceived relationship between humans and nature. Some cultures believe natures rule us, we rule nature, or that we can exist in harmony

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Human-nature value orientation

44
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A value orientation that refers to the extent to which less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a culture expect and accept an unequal distribution of power

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Power distance

45
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The dimension of a society’s value orientation that reflects its attitude toward virtue or truth

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Long-term versus short-term orientation

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A value orientation that stresses the importance of possessing one fundamental truth. Monotheistic

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Short-term orientation

47
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Belief in one god

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Monotheistic

48
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A value orientation in which people stress the importance of virtue.
Polytheistic

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Long-term orientation

49
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Belief in more than one god

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Polytheistic

50
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This emphasizes simultaneous contradictory truths; this approach is useful in responding to cultural contradictions

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Dialectic approach

51
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Instead of either/or, the dialectic approach emphasizes

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Both/and

52
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The dialectic approach is useful in responding to what

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cultural contradictions

53
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The dialetic approach challenges what kind of thinking?

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Dichotomous thinking

54
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Thinking in which things are perceived as either/or, for example: good or bad, right or wrong, big or small

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Dichotomous thinking

55
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This example of the dialectic approach emphasizes that some behaviors are determined by our culture, while others are idiosyncratic

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Cultural-individual dialectic

56
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This dialectic approach emphasizes that the individual and the situation are simultaneously important

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Personal-contextual dialectic

57
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This dialectic approach emphasizes that differences and commonalities between cultures can both be present

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Differences-similarities dialectic

58
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This example of the dialectic approach emphasizes that cultural patterns can undergo dynamic change

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Static-dynamic dialectic

59
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This dialectic approach emphasizes the need to understand the past and be aware of current events (emphasizes both the present and the past influences on culture)

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History/past-present/future dialectic

60
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This example of the dialectic approach emphasizes that cultural members can be simultaneously privileged in some ways while disadvantaged in others

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Privilege-disadvantage dialectic

61
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These have the power to influence perceptions, understanding, and communication patterns of contemporary intercultural interactions on all relationship levels

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Political and historical forces

62
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What 2 things provide the best environment for improving interracial attitudes?

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Integrated religious institutions and educational institutions

63
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What determines whose cultural values will be respected and followed?

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Power differences

64
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A significant minority group within a dominant majority that does not share dominant group values or communication patterns

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Co-cultural group

65
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What are 3 guidelines for communicating more ethically with people whose cultural backgrounds differ from your own

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  1. remember that everyone is enmeshed in a culture and is communicating through a particular cultural lens
  2. be aware of the humanity of other cultural groups and avoid viewing them as an exotic other
  3. Be open to alternate ways of viewing the world than the ones you were taught

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