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28 Cards in this Set
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Mediation
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Peaceful third-party intervention
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Intercultural communication
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Communication that occurs in interactions between people who are culturally different
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Culture
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Learned patterns of perceptions, values, and behaviors that a group of people shares
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Heterogeneous
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Diverse
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Border dwellers
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People who live between cultures and often experience contradictory cultural patterns
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Voluntary long-term travelers
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People who are border dwellers by choice and for an extended time, such as immigrants
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Voluntary short-term travelers
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People who are border dwellers by choice and for a limited time, such as study-abroad students, corporate personnel
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Involuntary short-term travelers
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People who are border dwellers not by choice and only for a limited time, such as refugees forced to move
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Involuntary long-term travelers
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People who are border dwellers permanently but not by choice, such as those who relocate to escape from war
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Culture shock
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A feeling of disorientation and discomfort due to the lack of familiar environmental cues
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U-curve theory
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A theory that individuals go through three predictable phases in adapting to a new culture
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Encapsulated marginal people
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People who fell disintegrated by having to shift cultures
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Constructive marginal people
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People who thrive in a border-dweller life, while recognizing its tremendous challenges
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Cultural values
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Beliefs that are so central to a cultural group that they are never questioned
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Individualist orientation
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A value orientation that respects the autonomy and independence of individuals
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Collectivistic orientation
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A value orientation that stresses the needs of the group
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Preferred personality
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A value orientation that expresses whether it is more important for a person to “do” or to “be”
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View of human nature
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A value orientation that expresses whether humans are fundamentally good, evil, or a mixture
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Human-nature value orientation
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The perceived relationship between humans and nature
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Power distance
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A value orientation that refers to the extent to which less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a culture expect and accept an unequal distribution of power
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Long-term verse short-term orientation
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The dimension of a society’s value orientation that reflects its attitude toward virtue or truth
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Short-term orientation
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A value orientation that stresses the importance of possessing one fundamental truth
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Monotheistic
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Belief in one god
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Long-term orientation
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A value orientation in which people stress the importance of virtue
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Polytheistic
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Belief in more than one god
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Dialectic approach
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Recognizes that things need not be perceived as either/or, but may be seen as both/and
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Dichotomous thinking
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Thinking in which things are perceived as “either/or” ---- for example, good or bad, big or small, right or wrong
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Co cultural group
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A significant minority group within a dominant majority that does not share dominant group values or communication patterns
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