Chapter 8 - Communication Across Cultures Flashcards
Diaspora
Groups of immigrants, sojourners, calves, or strangers living in new lands while retaining strong attachments to their homelands.
Mediation
Peaceful third-party intervention.
Intercultural Communication
Communication that occurs in interactions between people who are culturally different.
Culture
Learned patterns of perceptions, values, and behaviors shared by a group of people.
Heterogenous
Diverse
Border Dwellers
People who live between cultures and often experience contradictory cultural patterns
Voluntary Short-Term Travelers
People who are border dwellers by choice and for a limited time, such as study-abroad students or corporate personnel.
Voluntary Long-Term Travelers
People who are border dwellers by choice for an extended time, such as immigrants.
Involuntary Short-Term Travelers
People who are border dwellers not by choice and only for a limited time, such as refugees forced to move.
Involuntary Long-Term Travelers
People who are border dwellers permanently but not by choice, such as those who relocate to escape war.
Culture Shock
A feeling of disorientation and discomfort due to the lack of familiar environmental mental cues.
Reverse Culture Shock/Reentry Shock
Culture shock experienced by travelers upon returning to their home country.
Encapsulated Marginal People
People who feel disintegrated by having to shift cultures.
Constructive Marginal People
People who thrive in a border-dweller life, while recognizing its tremendous challenges.
Individualist Orientation
A value orientation that respects the autonomy and independence of individuals.
Collectivistic Orientation
A value orientation that stresses the needs of the group.
Preferred Personality
A value orientation that expresses whether it is more important for a person to “do” or to “be”
View of Human Nature
A value orientation that expresses whether humans are fundamentally good, evil, or a mixture.
Human-Nature Value Orientation
The perceived relationship between humans and nature.
Power Distance
A value orientation that fetters to the extent to which less powerful members of institutions and organizations which in a culture expect and accept an unequal distribution of power.
Long-Term vs. Short-Term Orientation
The dimension of a society’s value orientation that reflects its attitude toward virtue or truth.
Short-Term Orientation
A value orientation that stresses the importance of possessing one fundamental truth.
Monotheistic
Belief in one God.
Long-Term Orientation
A value orientation in which people stress the importance of virtue.
Polytheistic
Belief in more than one God.
Dialetic Approach
Recognizes that things need not be perceived as “either/or” but may be seen as “both/and”
Dichotomous Thinking
Thinking in which things are perceived as “either/or” - for example, “good or bad,” “big or small,” “right or wrong.”
Co-cultural Group
A significant minority group within a dominant majority that does not share dominant group values or communication patterns.
