Deck 2: Barriers to Intercultural Communication

Question 1

Which of the following explains part of the Roma's history in Europe?

A) The Holocaust is an important part of their history.
B) They have largely assimilated into European cultures.
C) The Roma have largely disappeared from Europe.
D) Migration from Egypt to Europe is a major part of their history.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What is the official language(s)of Hong Kong?

A) Cantonese and English
B) Cantonese only
C) Cantonese, English, and Putonghue (Mandarin)
D) English only

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Who applied uncertainty reduction theory to intercultural communication by developing the concept of the "stranger"?

A) Boucher
B) Cohen
C) Gudykunst and his colleagues
D) Yosei Sugawara

Answer 3

C

Question 4

In the reading by Benjamin Franklin,the commissioners from Virginia were victims of which barrier to intercultural understanding from the list below?

A) ethnocentrism
B) ethnography
C) high anxiety
D) nonverbal misinterpretations

Question 5

Positive or negative judgments made about others on the basis of their group membership is ______. a.ethnocentrism
B)prejudice
C)racism
D)stereotyping

Question 6

______ is prejudice with the exercise of power on or over the group.

A) Racism
B) Stereotyping
C) Ethnocentrism
D) Bias

Question 7

Who can be the target of stereotyping?

A) only individuals of a minority group
B) only individuals of a majority group
C) anyone
D) only a member of a subculture

Question 8

Negatively judging the aspects of another culture by the standards of one's own culture is ______.

A) ethnocentrism
B) prejudice
C) racism
D) stereotyping

Question 9

China's government promotes "Internet ______" rejecting the idea that a nation's virtual borders should be less meaningful than its physical borders.

A) jurisdiction
B) sovereignty
C) dominion
D) supremacy

Question 10

If you are unsure how to behave in an intercultural contact and you tend to avoid contact,you are experiencing which type of intercultural barrier?

A) high anxiety
B) assuming similarity instead of difference
C) ethnocentrism
D) stereotyping

Question 11

The term Asian American ______.

A) contributes to a stereotype of all people of Asian ancestry as a single community
B) includes more than 30 ethnicities with family origins from East Asia and excludes the Indian subcontinent
C) was developed by the Census Bureau to refer to all people of Asian descent
D) was developed by the Census Bureau to refer to people from the Indian subcontinent

Question 12

Which of the following,according to LaRay Barna (1997),is one of the barriers to intercultural communication?

A) perceptions of money
B) spatial distance between cultures
C) nonverbal communication
D) relationships

Question 13

The father of modern China is ______.

A) Chiang Kai-shek
B) Mao Tse-tung
C) Deng Xiaoping
D) Dr. Sun Yat-sen

Question 14

In the United States,the idea that dominant culture values some based on race is often referred to as ______.

A) White benefits
B) color privilege
C) color benefits
D) White privilege

Question 15

What region of China is the more traditional and conservative?

A) East
B) Hong Kong
C) North, including Beijing
D) South, including Guangzhou

Question 16

If you consider that people display emotions inappropriately when the display of emotions in their culture is different from the display of emotions in your culture,you exemplify which type of intercultural barrier?

A) high anxiety
B) assuming similarity instead of difference
C) ethnocentrism
D) stereotyping

Question 17

China has a recorded history of ______.

A) 65 years (since the end of World War II)
B) 200 years
C) 2,000 years
D) 4,000 years

Question 18

What term is used to describe the view that an individual's beliefs and behaviors should be understood only in terms of that person's own culture?

A) cultural relativism
B) cultural universalism
C) prejudice
D) ethnocentrism

Question 19

The irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group,race,religion,or sexual orientation is ______.

A) ethnocentrism
B) prejudice
C) racism
D) stereotyping

Question 20

"You're really pretty for a dark-skin girl" would be an example of ______.

A) a microaggression
B) a macroaggression
C) microracism
D) macroracism

Question 21

Air quality is a major problem in Chinese cities.

Question 22

A communicator's concern over a lack of cultural awareness can be a barrier to intercultural communication.

Question 23

The term Asian American was created early in the 19th century to refer to all people of Asian descent in the United States.

Question 24

China has become a major competitor with the United States for oil.

Question 25

Google has been banned in China.

Question 26

Hundreds of thousands of Roma were exterminated in Nazi gas chambers and concentration camps.

Question 27

Cultural nearsightedness is a less extreme form of ethnocentrism.

Question 28

China views U.S.demands for the Chinese to improve their human rights policies as attacks on its sovereignty.

Question 29

Hong Kong was promised at least 50 years of press freedom after its return to China in 1997.

Question 30

Japanese-born Koreans,the largest minority group in Japan,experience little social or economic prejudice.

Question 31

Using the word Americans to describe only individuals living in the United States is an example of cultural nearsightedness.

Question 32

The word stereotyping was first used in the Christian Bible to describe judgments made about other groups.

Question 33

The United States leads all nations in carbon dioxide emissions.

Question 34

The "model minority" stereotype associated with Asian Americans has had negative effects.

Question 35

Stereotypes can become self-fulfilling prophecies for the person stereotyped.

Question 36

Taiwan currently has a one-party government under martial law.

Question 37

Across all cultures,it is appropriate to display emotions in front of the same types of people (parents,lovers,etc.).

Question 38

Chinese leaders place a higher premium on social order and a lesser one on individual expression.

Question 39

Psychologists explain stereotypes as mistakes our brains make in the perception of other people similar to those mistakes our brains make in the perception of visual illusions.

Question 40

Profiling refers to the law enforcement practice of scrutinizing certain individuals based on characteristics thought to indicate a likelihood of criminal behavior.

Question 41

In China,the ______ approves all media programming.

Question 42

China emphasizes ______ order.

Question 43

A less extreme form of ethnocentrism can be labeled cultural ______.

Question 44

In the United States,the term ______ describes how a dominant culture empowers some over others,due to race.

Question 45

______ includes threats or verbal slurs directed against specific groups.

Question 46

______ is the irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group,race,religion,or sexual orientation.

Question 47

The effect of making Chinese products cheap is due to the fact that Chinese currency is ______.

Question 48

______ is prejudice with the exercise of power on or over the group through historical or institutional structures.

Question 49

______ impede communication by causing us to assume that a widely held belief is true of any one individual.

Question 50

Deng's ______ sought to remove the dogmas,irrationality,and inefficiencies of Mao's era and transformed China into a modern nation.

Question 51

Continued use of a ______ reinforces the belief that it is based upon.

Question 52

______ theory assumes that,during the initial phase of interaction with another person,your primary communication goal is to discover information about the other person.

Question 53

When encountering strangers,you experience ______ or not knowing how to interpret the person's reactions.

Question 54

Cultural ______,in contrast to ethnocentrism,is the view that an individual's beliefs and behaviors should be understood only in terms of that person's own culture.

Question 55

In China,the government encourages the ______ for education and business.

Question 56

______ refers to the law enforcement practice of scrutinizing certain individuals based on characteristics thought to indicate a likelihood of criminal behavior.

Question 57

To be ______ is to believe in the superiority of one's own culture.

Question 58

Psychologists have identified the highly prejudiced individual as having a(n)______ personality.

Question 59

______ leads all nations in carbon dioxide emissions.

Question 60

People most likely to be highly ______ tend to be uncritical of higher authority,overgeneralize,and think in bipolar terms.

Question 61

What barrier(s)is(are)illustrated in the Benjamin Franklin reading?

Question 62

Discuss how profiling can become ethnic stereotyping.

Question 63

Describe and give an example of White privilege.

Question 64

Discuss with examples how prejudice affects intercultural communication.

Question 65

Give examples of ethnocentrism.

Question 66

Based on intercultural communication concepts you have learned so far,discuss how mutual understanding between China and the United States could be improved.

Question 67

Discuss how hate speech impedes intercultural communication.

Question 68

Identify and discuss major areas of misunderstandings between China and the United States.

Question 69

Give examples of prejudice in the United States.

Question 70

Discuss how stereotyping can become a self-fulfilling prophecy for the person stereotyped.

Question 71

Discuss the implications of stereotyping Asian Americans as the model minority.

Question 72

Discuss the impact on the environment of China's economic development.

Question 73

Discuss how the Roma have experienced prejudice.

Question 74

Describe and give an example of microaggressions.

Question 75

Discuss with examples how stereotypes affect intercultural communication.

Question 76

Discuss with examples how racism affects intercultural communication.

Question 77

Discuss assuming similarity instead of difference as a barrier to intercultural communication.

Question 78

Discuss anxiety as a barrier to intercultural communication.

Question 79

Discuss China's human rights policies.

Question 80

Discuss China's media policies.