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Title: Cultural


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3 Inter-Act, 13th Edition

Culture
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Intercultural Communication
  • Interactions that occur between people whose
    cultures are so different that the communication
    between them is altered

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Culture
Culture Shock
  • The system of beliefs, values, and attitudes
    shared by a particular segment of the population
  • The psychological discomfort of adjusting to a
    new cultural situation

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Dominant Culture
  • Culture within a society whose attitudes,
    values, beliefs, and customs hold the majority
    opinion

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Co-Cultures
  • Groups of people living within a dominant
    culture who are clearly different from the
    dominant culture

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Co-Cultures
  1. Gender
  2. Race
  3. Ethnicity
  4. Sexual orientation and gender identity
  5. Religion
  6. Social class
  7. Generation

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Identifying Cultural Similarities and Differences
  • Individualism-Collectivism extent to which
    people in a culture are integrated into groups
  • Uncertainty Avoidance extent to which people in
    a culture avoid unpredictability regarding
    people, relationships, and events
  • Power Distance amount of difference in power
    between people, institutions, and organizations
    in a culture
  • Masculinity-Femininity extent to which notions
    of "maleness" and "femaleness" are valued in a
    culture
  • Time Orientation differences in how cultures
    perceive time

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Individualism-Collectivism
  • Individualistic cultures value
  • Personal rights and responsibilities
  • Competition and personal achievement
  • Self-expression
  • Privacy
  • Collectivist cultures value
  • Community, strong connection to groups
  • Harmony and cooperation
  • Avoiding embarrassment
  • Group interests over self-interests

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Uncertainty Avoidance
  • Low Uncertainty Avoidance
  • Comfortable with unpredictability
  • Takes risks
  • Few rules
  • Accepts multiple perspectives of truth
  • High Uncertainty Avoidance
  • Creates systems of formal rules
  • Believes in absolute truth
  • Less tolerant of deviant ideas or behaviors

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Power Distance
  • High Power Distance
  • Power distributed unequally
  • Power imbalances seen as natural
  • Power is respected
  • Low Power Distance
  • Power is distributed equally
  • Inequalities are downplayed
  • People with power are not feared
  • Democracy is valued

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Masculinity-Femininity
  • Masculine Cultures
  • Traditional sex-based roles followed
  • Men are assertive and dominant
  • Women are nurturing, service-oriented
  • Male traits valued over female traits
  • Feminine Cultures
  • Roles not based on ones sex
  • People free to act in nontraditional ways
  • Feminine traits valued
  • Both men and women demonstrate both masculine and
    feminine behaviors

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Time Orientation
  • Monochronic
  • Value punctuality
  • Follow plans
  • Polychronic
  • Value flexible schedules
  • Multitasking

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U.S. Rankings(among 53 Countries/Regions)
15th
38th
43rd
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Cultural Context
  • Low-Context
  • Direct verbal messages
  • Speakers expected to say what they mean
  • High-Context
  • Indirect meaning
  • Understood by referring to unwritten cultural
    rules and subtle nonverbal behavior
  • Read between the lines

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Barriers to Effective Intercultural Communication
  • Anxiety
  • Assuming similarity or difference culture
  • Ethnocentrism
  • Stereotyping
  • Incompatible communication codes
  • Incompatible norms and values

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Pyramid Model of Intercultural Competence
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Intercultural Communication Competence
  • Intercultural competence effective and
    appropriate behavior and communication in
    intercultural situations
  • Internal outcomes
  • Informed frame of reference, filter shift
  • Adaptability, flexibility
  • Ethnorelativism point of view that allows you to
    see value in other cultural perspectives
  • Empathy

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Intercultural Competence
External outcome Behaving and communicating
effectively and appropriately to achieve your
goals
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