Com 101 - C7

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Reasons to study intercultural communication

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- increased opportunities for intercultural contact.
- enhanced business effectiveness.
- improved intergroup relations.
- enhanced self-awareness.

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Cultural

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values, attitudes, beliefs, orientations, and underlying assumptions prevalent among people in society.

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Intercultural communication

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interactions that occur between people whose cultural assumptions are so different that the communication between them is altered.

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What does culture incorporate?

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age, sex, religion, values, individualism, nationality, race...

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Dominant cultures

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attitudes, values, beliefs, and customs that the majority of people in a society hold in common.

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Dimensions that affect communication:

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- individualism - collectivism.
- preferred personality.
- view of human nature.
- human-nature value.
- power distance.
- long-term/short-term.

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Individualistic culture

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emphasizes personal rights and responsibilities, privacy, voicing one's opinion, freedom, innovation, and self-expression.

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Collectivist culture

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emphasizes community, collaboration, shared interest, harmony, the public good, and avoiding embarrassment.

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Success, to my way of thinking, is better measured by:

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A. the extent to which I surpass others.
B. my contribution to the group effort.

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A responses indicate
B responses indicate

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A responses indicate an individualist orientation.
B responses indicate a collectivist orientation.

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Human-nature value

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- humans rule nature.
- nature rules humans.

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High power-distance

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the cultural belief that inequalities are in power, status, and rank are "natural" and that these differences should be acknowledged and accentuated.

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Low power-distance

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cultural belief that inequalities in power, status, and rank should be underplayed and muted.

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Low uncertainty-avoidance cultures

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characterized by greater acceptance of, and less need to control, unpredictable people, relationships, or events.

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High uncertainty-avoidance cultures

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characterized by a low tolerance for, and a high need to control, unpredictable people, relationships, or events.

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Barriers to effective intercultural communication:

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- anxiety.
- assuming similarity or difference.
- ethnocentrism.
- stereotypes and prejudices.
- incompatible communication codes.
- incompatible norms and values.