Exam 3: Adapting to Others

Culture is defined as a learned set of ___________________ about beliefs, values, norms, and social practices that affect the behaviors of a relatively large group of people.

A culture is a learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, and norms that affect the behaviors of a relatively large group of people.

__________ is a monotheistic religion (belief in one God) just like Christianity.

There is a strong correlation between collectivism and high power distance.

Collectivist cultures place greater value on

Ethnocentrism is a belief based on generalizations about a group of people that oversimplify their characteristics.

High power distance represents the extent to which the less powerful person in society accepts inequality in power and considers it normal.

According to the practice of communication accommodation, you will encounter differences in all conversations.

Groups of people who coexist within the mainstream of society, who remain connected to their cultural heritage, are known as

Identify and describe at least two assumptions in Muted Group Theory that explain how women and minority group voices are subdued and silenced in many cultures.

What kinds of misunderstanding or conflict could occur when some work colleagues are individualistic and others are collectivist in orientation? What communication strategies could help resolve any resulting tensions?

According to Hofstede's dimensions of culture, the United States can be classified as a(n) __________ nation.

The majority of Americans, including people of color and other minorities, show a variety of unconscious biases.

According to intercultural communication scholars Stella Ting-Toomey and Leeva C. Chung, the nature of our language creates many stereotypes.

Members of high-context culture tend to speak more, speak louder, and speak more rapidly than people from low-context cultures.

In many countries and for many cultures, religion is the culture.

Western thinkers focus on the interacting, unpredictable relationships among events, whereas East Asian thinkers focus on discovering the basic and predictable nature of objects and events.

Which of the following is a low-context culture?

Define each of the five obstacles to understanding others (ethnocentrism, stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, and racism). Explain how they differ from one another and how they can lead to one another. In other words, how does ethnocentrism lead to stereotyping, which leads to prejudice, and so on?

People who share beliefs such as "The duck that squawks gets shot," or "Seeing is better than hearing," would be characterized as members of a(n) __________ culture.