Intercultural Communication Final Exam

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High Context

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Implicit Communication

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Low Context

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Communication dependent on verbalization

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Individualistic

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Cultural emphasis on personal actions

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Collectivistic

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Emphasizing the group within a culture

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Etic

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Outsiders view of a culture

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Emic

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Cultural perspective from within

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Ethnocentricism

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Attitude that one's culture is superior to others

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Encoding

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How a message is delivered

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Culture

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Holistic summation of beliefs, norms, activities, etc.

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Homophily

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Similarities which helps to connect w/ others

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Power Distance

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Distribution of authority based on cultural view of rank, class, hierarchy, position, and so on.

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How is power distance shown in the Jewish film "Stranger Among Us"? Example.

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"Joy Luck Club" about the Chinese family, was not only an example of cross cultural communication, but also...

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an etic boyfriend who has a hard time understanding his disrespectful actions to his girlfriends family. Girlfriend is emic but did not warn him as an informant on how to behave.

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Name two errors the female detective made in communicating with the Hassidic Jewish community.

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1) Exposing her skin/not covering up.
2) Insults the Jewish leader by saying she has seen more of the world/reality than him.

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Why does Kraft think receptors are more important than the other 2 parts of the communication process. (Receptor Orientation Theory).

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Receptors are the ones we are trying to convey as message to. They are the reason a sender gives a message.

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What are the other 2 parts of the "Receptor Orientation Theory).

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1) Sender
2) Message

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What does God want, according to Kraft, "communicationally"?

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A relationship.

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What percentage of communication is non-verbal?

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80%

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How does the bushman tribe in "The God's Must be Crazy" portrait a collectivist culture?

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Spend most of their time as a group. Stress high importance of community and meet nightly.

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Adaptation

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Socialization and adjustment to a new culture.

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Ethnic identity

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The sense of worth and empowerment one gains by association to a race or people group.

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Worldview

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Cultural beliefs about the nature of the universe and one's place in it.

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Race

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Social categorization based on inherited physical features, usually common to some geographic or national origin.

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Perceived Cultural Differences

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Socialization into a new culture.

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Non-Verbal Communication

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Use of space, body movements, gestures, and so on to carry a message.

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Culture Shock defined by Ting-Toomey and Chung

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Refers to a stressful transitional period when individuals move from a familiar environment into an unfamiliar one. (feeling stripped of all protection)

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2 specific examples of culture shock.

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1) Tremendous stress
2) Identity disorientation state

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"Not Without my Daughter" involved...

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Iran and America

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Locate factors contributing to communication breakdowns between Betty and those in host culture. (Not w/o my Daughter)

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1) Bad informant - caused Betty to lose confidence and comfort in Iran.
2) Ethnocentric mindset - caused Betty to have a negative view towards Iran, "primitive".
3) Unaware of power distance - could have shown some disrespect to his family.

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Roles sender and receiver in Not without My Daughter

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Sender: Betty trying to communicate to husbands family how he broke his promise with Quran.

Receiver: Betty's in-laws should have interpreted what Betty was trying to convey in her message, but they where also ethnocentric.

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How does non-verbal give understanding or misunderstanding in "Last Samurai"

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The main samurai only had to nod his head to send the other samurai to go do a task. Shows an understanding the the main samurai has a lot of power and respect.

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Name 2/3 of the philosophic areas considered in a Wolrdview

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1)
2)

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Respeto (Mexico) means

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Importance of showing respect to others

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Che-myon or "face" (Korea) means

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Claimed sense of social self-worth a person wants others to have of him/her.

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Patriarchal Structure

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Male dominated culture

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Paralanguage

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Sounds and tones used in conversation

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Uncertainty Avoidance Management

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A society's or individuals tolerance for ambiguity.

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Racism

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Strong in-group preferences; rejection of out-group.

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Power DIstance

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Deals with hierarchy and authoirty

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What does it mean to "give face"?

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What does it mean to "save face"?

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A culture that is a face saving culture is also known as a __________ based culture.

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How has technology, media, & internet communication changed communication on a...
a. Deep level
b. Surface level

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Deep Level: In person (face2face) communication has vanished or decreased.
Surface Level: #####

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"Global identity" has to do with _______

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Two ways of communicating, according to T-T- and Chung that carry meaning but are non-verbal

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1) Gesture
2) Face expression