Culture and Gender in Military Operations

Question 1

Definition of culture

Answer 1

The creation, maintenance, and transformation across generations of semi-shared patterns of meaning, sense making, affiliation, action, and organization.

Question 2

12 cultural domains

Answer 2

Family & Kinship, Religion & Spirituality, Sex & Gender, Politics & Social Relations, Economics & Resources, Time & Space, Language & Communication, Technology & Material, History & Myth, Sustenance & Health, Aesthetics & Recreation, Learning & Knowledge

Question 3

Which cultural domain does the following pertain to?
information influenced by language/communication

Answer 3

Time & space

Question 3

Which cultural domain does the following pertain to? biological differences and how they’re treated

Answer 3

sex & gender

Question 4

Which cultural domain does the following pertain to? how people feed themselves, food production

Answer 4

Sustenance & Health

Question 5

Which cultural domain does the following pertain to? cold war, space race

Answer 5

Politics & social relations

Question 6

Which cultural domain does the following pertain to? phones, cars

Answer 6

Technology & Material

Question 7

Which cultural domain does the following pertain to? historical markers & myth

Answer 7

History & myth

Question 8

Which cultural domain does the following pertain to? goods & thinks that influence the culture

Answer 8

Economics & resources

Question 9

Which cultural domain does the following pertain to? transmitting information

Answer 9

7. Language & Communication

Question 10

Which cultural domain does the following pertain to? blood relative, marriage

Answer 10

Family & Kinship

Question 11

Which cultural domain does the following pertain to? beauty, style, activities based on region

Answer 11

Aesthetics & Recreation

Question 12

Protecting individuals from violent conflicts is the cornerstone to ______

Answer 12

peacebuilding

Question 13

Security of nation is often measured by:

Answer 13

Protecting citizens from violence, hunger disease, and natural disasters

Question 14

The following describes which barriers to cultural and gender competence: biases

Answer 14

faulty assumptions

Question 15

The following describes which barriers to cultural and gender competence: viewing culture awareness/gender perspective as a threat or annoyance

Answer 15

Defense

Question 16

The following describes which barriers to cultural and gender competence: a set idea about what someone or something is like

Answer 16

stereotypes

Question 17

The following describes which barriers to cultural and gender competence: just a “western’ or ‘far left’ push

Answer 17

Misrepresentation

Question 18

The following describes which barriers to cultural and gender competence: viewing one’s culture as the best and judging other cultures

Answer 18

ethnocentrism