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is the increasing economic, political, and cultural
integration and interdependence of diverse cultures- the world wide
integration of humanity

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Globalization

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the recognition and valuing of the difference,
encompassing such factors as age, gender, race, ethnicity, ability,
religion, education, marital status, sexual orientation and income.

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diversity-

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a theorist who predicted many years ago
that our world would become a global village.

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Marshall McLuhan-

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  • At this era, people are linked ____ and _____
    around the globe
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physically, electronically

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has helped erased the notion of territorial
boundaries between countries, gradually eroding the idea of
the term NATION.

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digital technology

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persons respectful of and engaged with
people from distinctly different cultures.

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Multiculturalists-

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By emphasizing our differences we fuel potential conflicts. ->

We are better served spending our
time focusing on American values –>

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Globalization destroys our cultures

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Understanding diversity and engendering
respect for differences can help erase the
tensions globalization creates. –>

Need to spend more time learning about cultures –>

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Globalization enriches cultures

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Culture

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languange/dialect
gesture
religion

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Circle of Multicultural Communication

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understand – connect — trust — grow

= culture

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central to changing behavior, inspiring
action, and connecting with people. This can improve relationships, build dialogue, increase
support and achieve participation.

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cultural competency

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❑Expand your cultural lens. See the world through
the eyes of your audience.

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Understand

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❑Review demographic information, including
consumer buying and media consumption habits,
reading levels, educational backgrounds, health
data, and lifestyle decisions. Search for similar
needs, characteristics, and preferences.

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Understand

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❑Know how ethnic and minority populations perceive
and interact with you and your organization.

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Understand

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❑Learn the history of the communities that you
serve.

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Understand

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Connect with people in their everyday
environment.

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Connect

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Take your message to the streets and the
communities that your organization serves. Engage
community leaders and influencers to help get the
word out.

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Connect

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Think about media and the ways your audience
receives information.

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Connect

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Identify effective communication channels that will
best connect.

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Connect

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Form a positive relationship with people by earning
their trust. Be a good listener. Respect culture and
tradition.

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Trust

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Know the protocols and nuisances of working with
diverse populations within their community.

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Trust

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Establish a track record of success by consistently
delivering on your mission and promise.

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Trust

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Communicate often and stay connected to the
community. Invite participation and be responsive.

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Trust

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Mutually rewarding relationships grow. They get
stronger over time and result in a win-win for
everyone.

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Grow

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Successful multicultural communications take
commitment and resources.

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Grow

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It’s not a one-time deal, but a learning curve that
requires adjustments.

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Grow

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Organizations that proactively reach out to
multicultural stakeholders will be better positioned
to serve the needs of a diverse population.

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Grow

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______ your culture, __________ other people’s culture.

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Embrace
Understand

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Communicators can be judged as _____, _____, _____ when they fail to realize the people fromdifferent cultures and whom they interact with.

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insensitive, ignorant or culturally confused

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lacking understanding of cultural
difference

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culturally confused

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affects communication

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cultural ignorance

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Forms of Multicultural Communication

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❖Interracial communication –
❖Interethnic communication-
❖International communication-
❖Intracultural communication –

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interactants are of different races
(physical attributes)

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Interracial communication

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communicating parties have different ethnic (cultural factors – nationality, regional culture, ancestry, etc)
origins

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Interethnic communication-

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communication between persons representing political structures or nations, communication practice that occurs across international borders

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International communication-

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includes all forms of communication among members of the same racial or ethnic group or co-culture groups

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Intracultural communication –

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interaction with individuals from
different cultures

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Intercultural communication-

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concern with the process of interpreting and sharing meanings with
individuals from different cultures

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Intercultural communication-

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Reason for studying intercultural communication

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Awareness of:
- own culture
- culture identity
- cultural background
- demographic changes
- economic globalization (workplace)
- creative problem solving
- creative and international peace respect

not
- ethnocentrism

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tendency to think thst own culture is more superior to other; this lacks cultural flexibility; (experiencing great anxiety when interacting with persons from different cultures)

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ethnocentrism

41
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“To effectively communicate,
we must realize that we are
all different in the way that
we perceive the world and
use this understanding as a
guide to our communication
with others”

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Anthony Robbins

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Iinteraction between members of differenct cultures

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intercultural communication
intercultural competence

43
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deliberate attempt to understant a member of a differnet culture

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intercultural dialogue

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is the system of knowledge, beliefs, values, customs,
behaviors, and artifacts that are acquired, shared and used by its members during the daily living; within a culture as a whole are co-cultures

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culture

45
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are composed of members of the same general
culture who differ in some ethnic or sociological way from the parent culture

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co-cultures

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Co-cultures:
* Philippines – _____
* United States-_______
* Disabled, __________

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  • Igorots, Ilocanos, Bicolanos (Luzon)
  • Native Americans, certain Scandinavian American
    groups, Middle Eastern Americans, some Latino groups (especially those of Chilean, Peruvian, and Spanish ancestry), and some Asian American groups (Chinese Americans and Taiwanese Americans).
  • gays and lesbians, cyberpunks, elderly
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group whose members
feel like outsiders;

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Marginalized group-

48
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different groups of people
within a given culture, context and history at
risk of being subjected to multiple
discrimination due to interplay of different
personal characteristics or grounds (sex, gender
age ethnicity, religion or belief, health status,
disability, sexual orientation, gender identity
education or income, or living in various
geographic localities

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Marginalized group-

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being perceived as the
majority of the population and having a
significant presence in institutions relating to
communication, education, artistic expression,
law, government and business

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Dominant cultures

50
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Strategies of co-culture members
to join in the dominant culture

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  • Assimilation
  • accomodation
  • separation
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means by which co-culture members attempt to fit in with members of the dominant culture i.e. they dress as members of the dominant culture dress; give up their own ways in an effort to assume the modes of behavior of the dominant culture

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assimilation

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– means by which co-culture members maintain their
cultural identity while striving to establish relationships with members of the dominant culture; a gay or lesbian who takes his or her partner to an
occasion in which members of the dominant culture will be present

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accomodation

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means co-culture members use to resist interacting with members of dominant culture; prefer to interact with each other rather than have a contact with persons they perceive to be outsiders

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separation

54
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Preferred strategies and communication approaches of marginalized groups

Separation = _____ = Lunching alone, living in an
area with similar people

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Passive

55
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Preferred strategies and communication approaches of marginalized groups

Accommodation = _____= Wearing kippah to work
or sari in a party

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Assertive

56
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Preferred strategies and communication approaches of marginalized groups

Assimilation = ______ = , confrontational Staging a protest

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Aggressive

57
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_____ is the lens through which we see the world

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Culture

58
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the acceptance of other cultural groups as
equal in value to one’s own (trying to understand the behavior of the other groups)

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cultural relativism

59
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the view that different cultures should be
assimilated into the dominant culture

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Melting-pot philosophy-

60
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adherence to the principle of cultural relativism. They advocate respect for uniqueness, tolerance
for difference and adherence to the principle of cultural relativity

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cultural pluralism

61
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We need to open ourselves to differences by adding our storehouse of ___, by learning to cope with ____, and by developing an appreciation of how increasing our ________ will possibly affect our communication competence. Accept the fact that our culture is not superior to others.

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knowledge, uncertainty, cultural sensitivity

62
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Exploring Cultural Dialectics
- Individualism versus _________-
- ______ versus Low context
- High power distance versus______
- _____ versus feminine culture

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collectivism
High context
low power distance
Masculine

63
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cultures in
which individual goals are stressed;
cultivates individual initiative and
achievement ; “I” (Great Britain, USA,
Canada, France and Germany)

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Individualistic cultures-

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cultures- group goals are
stressed; tend to nurture group
influences; “We” (Arab, African, Asian
and Latin American)

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Collectivistic cultures-

65
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a tradition- bound communication system which depends on indirectness; tradition bound; their cultural traditions
shape the behaviour and lifestyle of group members; over-polite and
indirect in relating others; Asian cultures

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High context communication

66
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a system that encourages directness in
communication; exhibit a more direct communication style; tend to gather
background information when meeting someone for the first time (Interview the person they talk to); feel that they have to explain everything rather than rely on non-verbal, contextual information; Western cultures

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low-context communication

67
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cultures based on power differences in which subordinates defer to superiors (Arabia, India and Malaysia); view power as a fact of life and are apt to stress its coercive or referent nature.

(superiors and subordinates view each other differently; subordinates quick
to defer to superiors)

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High power distance cultures

68
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believe power should be used only when it is legitimate; they are apt to employ expert or legitimate power ( Sweden, Israel and USA)

(Superiors and subordinates emphasize their interdependence – consultation
preference; subordinates will even contradict their bosses when necessary)

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Low power distance cultures

69
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value male _______ (Japan, Italy, Germany, Mexico and Great Britain);

dominant and competitive;

confront conflicts;

win-lose strategy

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Highly masculine cultures-
male aggressiveness,
strength
and material symbols of success

70
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  • value _____, _____ in members of
    both sexes, _____ (Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands ,
    Thailand and Chile);

compromise;

negotiation to resolve conflict;

win-win solutions

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Highly feminine cultures

relationships
tenderness
a high quality of life

71
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social gender roles are DISTINCT

men= success
women = quality of life

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masculine societies

72
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social gender roles OVERLAP (both quality of life)

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feminine societies

73
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refers to the way of presenting themselves

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gender roles

74
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socially constructed; share
experience of oppression

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Racial and Ethnic identity-

75
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has to do with belief on faith issues

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religious identity

76
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related to the widening gap between
the ultrawealthy, and middle and lower classes

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Socioeconomic identity

77
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has to do with belief on faith issues

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Religious identity-

78
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related to the widening gap between
the ultrawealthy, and middle and lower classes

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Socioeconomic identity-

79
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refers to the way of presenting themselves

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Gender roles-

80
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socially constructed; share
experience of oppression

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Racial and Ethnic identity-

81
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has to do with belief on faith issues

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Religious identity-

82
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related to the widening gap between the
ultrawealthy, and middle and lower
classes

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Socioeconomic identity

83
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refers to the legal status or citizenship

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national identty

84
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mental images or pictures that we believe on;
shortcuts (poisitive or negative) that guide reactions

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sterotypes

85
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a positive or negative prejudgement; leads to the creation of
in-groups and out-groups, with out-group members becoming easy for
discrimination

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prejudice

86
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not face-to-face; online,
surrogate communities;

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Virtual neighbourhoods and
communities-

87
Q

_____ and ____
also changing the traditional definition
of community

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Technology, computer networks

88
Q

_____ may also help bring diversity
and new culture to our lives

A

Internet

89
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How to improve your ability to communicate interculturally

refraim
recognize
make a commitment

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  • Refrain from formulating expectations based solely on your
    own culture
  • Recognize how faulty education can impede understanding
  • Make a commitment to develop communication skills and
    abilities appropriate to life in multicultural world
90
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“The essence of cross-culuteal communication has to do with _____ than with________.”

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relasing response
sending message
Edward T. Hall

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The goals of co- cultura lcommunication

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assimilation, accomodation, separation

92
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The goals of co- cultura lcommunication

the marginalized group attempts to fi in with the dominant group

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assimilation

93
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The goals of co- cultura lcommunication

the marginalized group manages to keep co-cultura lidenity for positice relationships with the dominant culutre

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accomodation

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The goals of co- cultura lcommunication

the marginalized roup RELATES as exclusively as possible with its own group and as little as possible with the dominant group

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separation

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