INTERCULTURAL AND GLOBAL COMMUNICATION

Question 1

believing that your culture is the benchmark of all others; You think other cultures are incorrect.

Answer 1

Ethnocentric Bias

Question 2

compares two cultures; comparison and contrast other cultures; generally compares the styles.

Answer 2

Cross Cultural communication

Question 3

how people speak to one another and what difficulties or differences they encounter over and above the different languages they speak.

Answer 3

Intercultural communication

Question 4

the verbal and nonverbal language that one culture uses; it indicates the differences between one culture to another.

Answer 4

Symbols

Question 5

socially essential collective activities within a culture; a large group or number of people do that

Answer 5

Rituals

Question 6

the feelings not open for discussion within a culture about what is good or bad,
beautiful or ugly, normal and abnormal;

Answer 6

Values

Question 7

real or imaginary people who serve as behavior models

Answer 7

Heroes

Question 8

spoken words and everything else

Answer 8

Context

Question 9

Spoken words are much less important than the rest of the context

Answer 9

High-context culture

Question 10

relationships build slowly and depend on trust on high-context culture

Answer 10

Association

Question 11

nonverbal elements are significant on high-context culture

Answer 11

Interaction

Question 12

everything has its own time; Time is not easily scheduled on high-context culture

Answer 12

Temporality

Question 13

space is communal; the way we view spaces; people stand close to each other and share the same space on high-context culture

Answer 13

Territoriality

Question 14

multiple sources of information on high-context culture

Answer 14

Learning

Question 15

The message itself means everything

Answer 15

Low-context culture

Question 16

relationships begin and end quickly on low context culture

Answer 16

Association

Question 17

space is compartmentalized on low context culture

Answer 17

Territoriality

Question 18

events and tasks are scheduled and to be done at particular time on low context culture

Answer 18

Temporality

Question 19

one source of information is used on low culture

Answer 19

Learning

Question 20

involves forcing one’s will on another to satisfy individual desires

Answer 20

Dominating style

Question 21

necessitate a great deal of open discussion about the conflict.
● Combines two choices.

Answer 21

Integrating style

Question 22

often confused with integrating styles because a solution is reached following discussion of the conflict.

Answer 22

Compromising style

Question 23

involve giving up one’s position to satisfy another.

Answer 23

Obliging style

Question 24

people avoid the conflict entirely by failing to acknowledge its existence.

Answer 24

Avoiding Style

Question 25

the interest of the individual prevails

Answer 25

Individualist culture

Question 26

the interest of the group matters.

Answer 26

Collectivist culture

Question 27

the extent to which less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally

Answer 27

Power Distance

Question 28

children are expected to display respect for those of higher status.

Answer 28

High power distance culture

Question 29

the extent to which people in a culture feel threatened by uncertain or unknown situations.

Answer 29

Uncertainty Avoidance