Chp. 7 Intercultural Communication Flashcards
What is Interpersonal Communication?
The exchange of information between individuals who are unalike culturally.
What are 3 goals of Co-Cultural Communication?
Assimilation goal: The marginalized group attempts to fit in with the dominant group.
Accommodation goal: The marginalized group manages to keep a co-cultural identity while striving for positive relationships with the dominant culture.
Separation goal: The marginalized group relates as exclusively as possible with its own group and as little as possible with the dominant group.
What 3 things negatively impact our interpersonal Communcication?
Ethnocentrism ( judging one’s culture by the eyes of your own culture), stereotyping, and prejudice are barriers that can get in the way.
What are ways to improve intercultural communication?
- Personal self-assessment
- Avoid stereotyping
- Develop a sensitivity to diversity
- Use descriptive feedback
- Open communication channels
Cultural Relativism
The belief that another culture should be judged by its own context rather
than measured against your culture.
Individualistic cultures
Cultures that value individual freedom, choice, uniqueness, and
Independence.
Collectivist cultures:
Cultures that value the group over the individual.
Uncertainty-accepting cultures
Cultures that tolerate ambiguity, uncertainty, and diversity.
Implicit-rule culture
A culture in which information and cultural rules are implied and already known to the participants.
explicit-rule culture
A culture in which information, policies, procedures, and expectations are explicit.
The M-Time
The monochronic time schedule, compartmentalizes time to meet personal needs, separates task and social dimensions, and points to the future.
The P-Time
The polychronic time schedule, which views time as “contextually based and relationally oriented.
