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How can cultural differences in perception affect the intercultural communication process?
Why do you believe families in the United States have experienced so many changes in the last two decades? What are these changes? Do you believe the changes are positive or negative?
Can you give an example of how each of the three components (motivation, knowledge, and skills)of intercultural communication competence can be improved? Be specific.
List ten communication characteristics that you would like to develop if you were selected to visit another country as an exchange student.
Type the words “international proverbs” into any search engine and locate proverbs that are trying to “teach” respect, patience, silence, hard work, group solidarity, or trustworthiness.
Go to YouTube and search for “culture and folk tales.” View some folktales froma variety of cultures.Note the “lessons” being taught in each folktale.
Make a list of the changes in your culture that you have observed during your lifetime. Discuss with a group of your classmates how those changes have affected intercultural communication.
Attend a meeting (church service, lecture, social event, etc.) of a culture or co-culture different from you own. Try to notice the various ways cultural characteristics of that culture are being
What are some generalizations about life in the United States that an international exchange student might draw from watching The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, or your favorite television show?
How can culture influence different perceptions of human rights? What is an example?
How do you think the United States becoming a“minority majority” nation will influence dominant culture values?
What are some of the most compelling intercultural communication challenges that will have to be managed over the next 50 years? Why?
Go to YouTube and search for videos on “cultural conflict,” “intercultural communication,” or other related terms. Enjoy the videos, but use your critical thinking skills.
Identify a problem in your own life where communication has only worsened the situation.
Find a partner and review the internal conflict scenario on bullfighting given in the text. Roleplay the situation with each person assuming the position of the student. How do you manage this
In a class or online group, discuss the role of culture in sectarian and ethnic tensions. Identify ways of ameliorating these tensions in your community.
Identify some of the culturally related challenges involved in an international relief response to a communicable disease outbreak.
In a discussion group, identify problems arising from international water and food shortages.
Explain what is meant by the statement “In studying other cultures, we do so very often from the perspective of our own culture.”
Explain how and why communication and culture are linked.
What do you see as the major differences between nuclear and extended families? How do these differences influence communication between members of the family?
What are some ways a person’s family influences his or her cultural identity?
During the chapter, we discussed cultural differences in the perception and treatment of the elderly. Why do you think the differences exist?
How are the three deep structure elements interrelated? Are those links the same in every culture?
Go to YouTube and search for “gender stereotypes in the media.” After viewing some of the most popular videos, try to answer the following questions:What cultural themes are repeated in many of
Working with others, discuss the following questions:Are child-rearing practices throughout the world more alike than they are different? What are the major similarities, and what are the major
Go to YouTube and search for “Jewish family Passover.” View some of the family videos as they apply to how family rituals are taught to the children who are sharing the religious service
Working with others, have each person discuss the “stories” that helped form his or her familial and cultural identity.
Interview someone of a culture different from your own using questions about child-rearing practices.You might inquire about methods of discipline, toys, games, topics discussed at the dinner table,
Working with others, discuss the following topic: In what ways have globalization and new immigration patterns changed families? Have these changes been beneficial or detrimental to families?
What are some ways cultures differ in the way they listen?
What are some common misconceptions regarding human communication?
Making inferences about a culture different from your own can often be problematic. Can you think of examples when a lack of information forced you to make the wrong inference?
How does intercultural communication differ from everyday forms of communication?
Explain what is meant by the phrase “Communication is contextual.” Can you think of examples of how context has influenced your behavior?
Why is it said that much of culture is invisible?
Working with others, think of some of the ways in which the ethnic and age-group changes in the U.S.demographic composition will impact your lives.
The United States ranked in the upper third as a monumentalism culture. What cultural traits from Khols’ American values list do you think contribute to this ranking?
Recall as much as you can about your personal family history.Record your answers to the following questions as they apply to the conscious and unconscious learning that took place. It might be
Do you think members of a host culture have any responsibilities to make immigrants feel comfortable in the new cultural environment? Why?
Why do so many immigrants have a difficult time adapting to a new culture? What suggestions do you have for making that process less troublesome?
Working with others, discuss the components of intercultural ethics. How would you recommend that such ethics be internalized so that they are always present during intercultural exchanges?
Go to the “Shooter Task” website (http://www.csun.edu/~dma/FPST/consent.html) and read about the voluntary study to measure “implicit associations and the demographic variables.” Participate
To measure your implicit social attitudes about race, gender, sexual orientation, etc., go to the Harvard University–sponsored “Project Implicit”website (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit)
Working alone or in a group, choose a country and compile a list of preparations to minimize the effects of culture shock in that specific nation.
Go to YouTube and search for “Examples of culture shock.” You can also search for “cultural adaptation,” “cultural adjustment,” “reverse culture shock,” or “U-curve.” After
Imagine you are a doctor and have just diagnosed one of your patients with a terminal illness. How would you present the news to a German American, a Mexican immigrant, and someone from China?
Recall the Consider This example of Hanako’s visit to the medical laboratory. How could the lab tech have better phrased his question to promote understanding?
Examine you own beliefs about the causes and prevention of disease. Which healthcare perspective do you most identify with? Why? Do you engage in health practices that would be considered a part of
What are some of the ways that a culture’s attitude toward education can become manifest in the classroom? In the workplace? Identify some of the outcomes of a culture’s overemphasis and
In the globalized marketplace, contemporary business leaders must manage a variety of cultural expectations and adapt them to the workplace.What cultural differences of values and behaviors are most
In almost any context, first-time meetings will involve initial conversational talk. The rules governing what are appropriate or inappropriate topics for these interactions vary across cultures. Work
What is meant by the phrase “communication is rule governed”? Compare some of the different“rules” that govern your communication in the following contexts:(a) A meeting with your professor
You have been asked to conduct a culture general training course for marketing department employees, a class of elementary school teachers, or a group of multicultural nurses. Draw up a list of
Using online searches, compile a list of hot–cold foods and the health benefit that is attributed to each. Can you identify any cultural relation to the listed foods?
Discuss the following statement: “Prejudice can never be eliminated because it is so deeply rooted in human nature.”
What relationship links stereotypes, prejudice, racism, and power?
In what ways have gender roles changed in the United States?
How do extended families differ from nuclear families?
Why is it difficult to develop a single definition of the word“family”?
What is unique about the deep structure institutions of family, state, and religion that makes them endure?
What are the advantages of the “culture-general” approach to the study of intercultural communication over the “culture-specific”method?
As you watch television for a week, keep a record of the various cultural “lessons” that you believe are being transmitted, either overtly or covertly, through the programs you are watching.
Which ten words do you believe best describe your culture?
What is meant by the phrase “Culture is shared”?
What is meant by the phrase “Communication has a consequence”?
What is meant by the phrase “Communication is a dynamic process”?
What is meant by the phrase “People engage in communication for a variety of purposes”?
Why do you believe that compromise is difficult to achieve in the intercultural setting?
The use of social media networks has expanded far beyond private citizens and now includes government officials, corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and government organizations. For
How do you believe we can get people throughout the world, and from a variety of cultures, to engage in humanitarian cooperation? Is such engagement possible?
What are some reasons that make intercultural cooperation more important than ever?
What are some of the merits of a relativistic approach to developing an intercultural ethic?Of a universalistic approach? What are some of the dangers?
Form a small group (three or four people) and select one of the recent natural disasters where aid responders from different countries came to offer assistance. Identify some of the cultural
Identify several examples of how cultural ethnocentrism could occur in the classroom. Meet with other classmates to compare examples and then devise some recommended actions that would eliminate the
Some scholars think the world is moving toward an “oligarchy” of major economic power languages.Do you think this would be a good or a bad occurrence? Why? What will happen to minority languages,
Some countries have an official language (or languages), but others do not. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a country having an official language? Should the United States have an
What images come to mind when you hear someone speaking English with an accent? Do different accents create different images? Try to decide why you form those images? Talk with others to see if they
What is meant by the phrase “Language influences our view of reality”?
To become aware of the multiple meanings found in most words, meet in a group with a number of people who have English as their second language. Ask them to give as many meanings as they can for the
An Internet search for “Where is the Speaker From?” should take you to the PBS website regional dialect quiz. Take the quiz. Explore the “Do You Speak American” site for additional
Meet with one or two speakers of English as a second language to identify the kinship terms they use in their native language (e.g., mother, brother, aunt). Do they have kinship terms that vary with
Talk with two or three people over sixty years of age and ask them for some examples of the slang they used in their younger days (e.g., “groovy man”). Try to compare it with slang that is
Find someone who is of a culture that uses the type of indirect communication we discussed in the chapter. Ask that person to note some of the difficulties he or she often experiences when speaking
Take four different English proper nouns (other than someone’s name) and use online translation dictionaries to translate each noun into five different European languages. Do some of the translated
How did you establish some of your identities?How do you enact those identities?
What are some of your different identities and how did you acquire them? What are some differences between your identities and those same identities in another culture?
How would you define identity? How would you explain your identities to another person?
Why is an awareness of identity important in your personal life? What are some of the situations in which this awareness would be beneficial?
In a group of at least three individuals, have each person go to YouTube and view at least two videos on one of the following topics—Christian, Jewish, or Muslim/Islamic identity. Afterward,
Construct a list of as many of your identities as you can. Using the list, draw a pie chart with each identity receiving space proportional to that identity’s importance to you. Compare your chart
Do you believe technology helps or hinders intercultural communication?
What techniques can you employ that will assist you when you are in a situation that is employing an interpreter?
Table 10.6 lists the characteristics of Chinese and U.S. negotiation styles. Select several of the characteristics and discuss how they might influence communication between the two negotiating
Make a list of the culturally related problems that you think might arise in a multicultural workforce, either domestically or internationally. Compare your list with several other classmates’
Find two or three online articles that discuss globalization of the economy/marketplace. Working with others, identify three positive and three negative cultural aspects related to globalization.
This chapter discussed three different contexts—business, education, and healthcare. Think of another context (e.g., environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), social work organization,
Do you believe that in the United States a person who knows how to effectively employ nonverbal communication has an advantage over other people?How would the use of these same skills be received in
What is meant by “Nonverbal communication is rule governed”?
How late can you be for the following: (a) a class,(b) work, (c) a job interview, (d) a dinner party, or (e) a date with a friend? Ask this same question of members of two or three cultures other
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