Module 3

Question 1

They stated that the definition of culture is that “it is the learned and shared behavior of a community of interacting human beings

Answer 1

Useem & Useem, 1963

Question 2

He stated that “a system of beliefs, assumptions and values shared by a group of people

Answer 2

Fielding, 1996 in Singh & Rampersad, 2010

Question 3

It is where it’s stated that “Shared patterns of behaviors and interaction, cognitive constructs and affective understanding that are learned through a process of socialization”

Answer 3

Center for Advanced Research in Language Acquisition, n.d.

Question 4

They stated that “learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values and norms that affect the behaviors of a relatively large group of people

Answer 4

Lustig & Koestner, 2003

Question 5

What are the Five Characteristics of Culture

Answer 5

1. Learned not Innate
2. Shared
3. Multifaceted
4. Dynamic
5. Overlapping

Question 6

This is where we think and act as Filipinos because our parents bought us up this way.

Answer 6

Learned not Innate

Question 7

This is where we are surrounded by cultural norms that affect language, religion, basic world view, education, technology, organization, politics and law all interacting with one another.

Answer 7

Multifaceted

Question 8

This is where culture constantly change as cultural contact increases, new technology emerge, and economic conditions vary.

Answer 8

Dynamic

Question 9

This is where we belong to multiple, overlapping cultures as we interact with one another.

Answer 9

Overlapping

Question 10

This is where we act as members of our own cultural group not as individual.

Answer 10

Shared

Question 11

THis is a place where people of various races or cultures live together and gradually create one community

Answer 11

Melting Pot

Question 12

What are the ways of Adaptation

Answer 12

1. Cultural Integration
2. Cultural Assimilation
3. Cultural Multiculturalism
4. Cultural Accommodation
5. Cultural Separation

Question 13

What kind of way of Adaptation that has this characteristics
 Without sacrificing the characteristics of its own culture
 A positive kind of adaptation
 Healthy intermingling of two unique cultures

Answer 13

Cultural Integration

Question 14

What kind of way of Adaptation that has this characteristics
 Cultural diversity is encouraged and valued
 Cultures should be accorded special acknowledgement of their
differences within a dominant political culture
 Engagement with and respect toward people from distinctly different
cultures (Gamble & Gamble, 2013)

Answer 14

Cultural Multiculturalism

Question 15

What kind of way of Adaptation that has these characteristics
 Accommodation in the public sphere while maintaining the parent
culture in the private sphere (Cultural AccommodationandNegotiation, 2017)
 Maintaining their cultural identity even while they strive to establishrelationships with the members of the dominant culture.

Answer 15

Cultural Accomodation

Question 16

What kind of way of Adaptation that has these characteristics
 Refusing to interact or join the dominant culture
 Prefers to interact with the members of their own culture
 Often known as outsiders

Answer 16

Cultural Separation

Question 17

What kind of way of Adaptation that has these characteristics
 Often losing the aspects of their traditional culture in the process
 Happens when immigrants voluntarily adopt their newcountry’slanguage and cultural practices

Answer 17

Cultural Assimilation

Question 18

What are the Nature of Common Cultural Differences or the Four Basic Traits?

Answer 18

1. Leadership
2. Work Productivity
3. Group Allegiance
4. Task Commitment

Question 19

This is the Individual and Group Orientation

Answer 19

Group ALlegiance

Question 20

This is the power of Influence

Answer 20

Leadership

Question 21

This is where Masculine culture and Feminine Culture comes from

Answer 21

Work Productivity

Question 22

This is where High and Low Context culture comes from

Answer 22

Task Commitment

Question 23

What are the Guidelines on developing intercultural competence?

Answer 23

1. Widen you field of experience by making new contacts.
2. Learn about history and the experiences and aspirations of people from different cultures.
3. Examine yourself for possible stereotypes.
4. Look at the world from someone else’s way of looking at and thinking about
   something, not just yours
5. Work on becoming more self-confident.
6. Appreciate cultural similarities and differences
7. Acknowledge the essential equality and value of all cultures. 8. Be sensitive and interpret cultural styles of communication.

Question 24

These are the barriers to effective international communication.

Answer 24

1. Ethnocentrism
2. Stereotypes
3. Prejudice
4. Assumed Similarities
5. Anxiety

Question 25

What are the Impacts of technology on communication

Answer 25

1. Technology provides us with unlimited information.
2. It creates opportunities for meeting new people.
3. It helps us keep in touch with family and friends anywhere in the world.
4. It brings new diversity to our culture and our lives.
5. It foster better cooperation among different cultural groups. 6. It isolates us.
6. It can make us create second lives.

Question 26

This use personal characteristics and achievements to define themselves and value individual welfare

Answer 26

Individualistic Culture (I)

Question 27

This define themselves as members of groups, which can be clans or communities

Answer 27

Collectivist Culture(We)

Question 28

This is the information is already in the person, while very little is in the coded, explicitly transmitted part of the message

Answer 28

High-Context Culture