Exam 4: Who Are You Understanding Intercultural Communication and Workplace Diversity

Which of the following is an example of ethnocentrism?

A person who identifies as intersex might also use the term transgender, not as an alternative, but as an addition to the term intersex.

Sebastian is highly competent with social media and considers himself a global citizen. These are qualities he says are a result of his belonging to the millennial generation. His self-identity as a millennial is a function of, or contributes to, his ________.

People's sense of cultural and social identity might come from their identification with more than one group.

A person's identity is formed through the following major categories of influence: ________.

Which of the following behaviours indicates stereotyping?

The "tendencies" of a group of people are ________.

Brazilian employees often choose which task to do depending on its relative thrill or importance and will often do several things at once. Brazilians are typically what kind of employees?

While visiting a friend in a foreign country, you notice how loudly everybody talks and it seems to you that everyone is always angrily arguing with each other. Your friend assures you that this is all normal and that nobody is really angry. It is possible that you are from a(n)________ culture and you are a tourist in a ________ culture.

You are on a cruise with people from a variety of countries. You are getting to know the other guests at your shared table one evening and you sense that they are cold towards you. They seem bland and unemotional even when you are discussing controversial topics. It is possible that you are from a(n)________ culture and they are tourists from a ________ culture

Japanese businesses are often characterized by their slow decision-making processes: decisions that are made low on the hierarchy of power must often by accepted by each level up the corporate hierarchy in turn before they are actually implemented. This kind of decision making is characteristic of what kind of business culture?

At a meeting with First Nations people, which of the following would be a culturally normative behaviour?

Many successful businesses in Canada have moved away from hierarchical organizational arrangements, giving employees the autonomy to do as they see fit and removing managers from the equation. These businesses are expressing what kind of business culture?

Which of the following is most typical of collectivist thinking?

Generalizations about a group's preferences and tendencies become stereotyping when ________.

When you are deciding what term to use to describe a particular group of people, ________.

Fahima is a visiting student and a Muslim from the Arabic nation of Qatar. Welcoming her at the airport, her sponsors are surprised that she is wearing clothing very similar to their own and, in particular, is not wearing a hijab. They are even more surprised to learn during her stay that she is a capable driver and owns her own vehicle back home. Fahima's sponsors are surprised because ________.

Which of the following is a "national norm" described by the Lewis model of cultural types?

Which of the following sentences is likely to come from a speaker who has a low understanding of intercultural, inclusive communication?

Feeling gratitude for favours is an example of ________.