Cultural And Global Issues Affecting Communication

Question 1

is based on our group memberships which are determined by gender, age, racial, ethnic, religious, socioeconomic, political or even national affiliations. German et al (2003) defines culture as a social group’s system of meanings

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Cultural identity

Question 2

are similarly socially constructed. Some racial and ethnic groups, for example, share experiences of oppression.

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racial and ethnic identities

Question 3

is at the root of countless contemporary conflicts occurring in the Middle East, India and Pakistan.

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Religious identify

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frames how we respond to issues of our day. The widening gap between the ultrawealthy and the middle and lower classes in the different parts of the world is contributing to their developing different attitudes on a wide array of issues.

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socioeconomic identify

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the tendency to see your own culture as superior to all others, is a key characteristic of failed intercultural communication efforts.

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Ethnocentrism

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the opposite of ethnocentrism. When you practice cultural relativism, instead of viewing the group to which you belong as superior to all others, you work to try to understand the behavior of other groups on the basis of the context in which the behavior occurs rather than from your own frame of reference.

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Cultural relativism

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are mental images or pictures we carry around in our heads; they are shortcuts, whether positive or negative, that guide our reactions to others.

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Stereotypes

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describes how we feel about a group of people whom, more likely than not, we do not personally know.

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Prejudice

Question 9

Communicators who fail to realize that persons from different cultures may not look, think, or act as they themselves do run the risk of having those with whom they interact judge them to be insensitive, ignorant, or culturally confused.

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Cultural ignorance