Chapter 3

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Culture

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Generation part of a country even sports teams are all types of culture which is the system of shared values beliefs, attitudes, and orientations learned through communication that guides what is considered to be appropriate thought and behavior in a particular segment of the population

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Culture shock

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The psychological discomfort you experience when you must interact in a new culture

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Interculture communication

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Interactions that occur between people whose cultures are so different that the communication between them is altered. Getting over culture shock and you try to understand people who are different from you

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Individualistic culture

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A culture that values personal rights and responsibilities, privacy, voicing one's opinion, freedom, innovation, and self-expression.

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Personal rights expression personal freedom independent from crowd

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Collectivist culture

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A culture that values community, collaboration, shared interests, harmony, the public good, and avoiding embarrassment.

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To be part of a group, values of community

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Uncertainty avoidance

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The extent to which the people in a culture look for ways to predict what is going to happen as a way of dealing with the anxiety caused by uncertain situations or relationships.

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Caused by uncertain situations...dealing with anxiety

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Low uncertainty avoidance

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The culture that tolerates uncertainty is and is less driven to control unpredictable people, relationships, or events.

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Tolerates difference better

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High uncertainty avoidance

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A culture characterized as having a low tolerance for and a high need to control unpredictable people, relationship, or even.

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Difference is suspicious. ....less accepting.

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Power distance

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The extent to which members of a culture expect and accept that power will be unequally shared.

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Higher status. .. except the unequal

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High power difference

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A culture in which both high and low power holders accept the unequal distribution of power.

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Low power difference

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A culture in which members prefer power to be more equally distributed.

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Dominant culture

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Culture holding majority in a society and terms of attitudes, beliefs, values, and orientations.

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Co-cultures

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Cultures that exist side by side with the dominant culture and are comprised of smaller numbers of people who hold common values, attitudes, beliefs, and orientations that differ from those of the dominant culture.

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Cultural identity

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The part of your self image that is based on the cultural group or groups with which you most closely associated and align yourself.

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Sense of self based on culture

Gender, race

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Ethnicity

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The classification of people based on shared national characteristics such as country of birth, geographic origin, language, religion, ancestral customs, and tradition.

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Religion

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A system of beliefs, rituals, and ethics based on the common perception of the sacred or holy.

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Social class

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A level in the power hierarchy of a society who's membership is based on income, education, occupation, and social habits.

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Generation cultures

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Such as the baby boomers, Generation X, Generation Y, Generation Z.

Baby Boomers include large numbers of people who came of age during the counter culture of the 1960s. They are likely to judge, question, and compete. Those we call Generation X, who experienced latchkey childhood and the consequences of widespread divorce, value self-sufficiency and are adaptable, creative, and comfortable with technology Millennials also called Generation Y or the Echo Boomers, never knew life without computers. They were exposed to school and world violence at an early age, experience corporate failures and globalization, and groove at the start of the trend for parents to place their children on pedestals. Generation Z has never known a world without portable technology, internet access, notebook PCs, iPods, DVDs, and of course social media sites like Facebook and MySpace. Generation Y members are group-oriented.

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Monochronic

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A time orientation that views time as being small, even units that occur sequence sequentially. Monochronic people at here the schedule and do things one at a time monochronic cultural value punctuality,

on interrupted task completion, meeting deadlines, and following plans.

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Polychronic

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A time orientation that use time as a continuous flow. Polychronic people understand that appointment times and schedules are approximate and fluid rather than doing one thing at a time they are comfortable doing several things at once, having flexible schedules or not at all, and disregarding deadlines an appointment times to satisfy task a relationship needs.

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Ethnocentrism

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The belief that one's own culture is superior to that of others. And if no centric view of the world leads to attitudes of superiority and messages that are directly and subtly couldn't condescending and content in town these messages are offensive to receivers from other cultures or cork oak cultures and get in the way of intercultural communication.