Exam 2: Barriers to Intercultural Communication

Give examples of ethnocentrism.

If you consider that people display emotions inappropriately when the display of emotions in their culture is different from the display of emotions in your culture,you exemplify which type of intercultural barrier?

If you are unsure how to behave in an intercultural contact and you tend to avoid contact,you are experiencing which type of intercultural barrier?

The "model minority" stereotype associated with Asian Americans has had negative effects.

Continued use of a ______ reinforces the belief that it is based upon.

Discuss China's human rights policies.

Stereotypes can become self-fulfilling prophecies for the person stereotyped.

Air quality is a major problem in Chinese cities.

Discuss with examples how stereotypes affect intercultural communication.

Chinese leaders place a higher premium on social order and a lesser one on individual expression.

Describe and give an example of microaggressions.

Discuss the implications of stereotyping Asian Americans as the model minority.

What term is used to describe the view that an individual's beliefs and behaviors should be understood only in terms of that person's own culture?

A communicator's concern over a lack of cultural awareness can be a barrier to intercultural communication.

Psychologists explain stereotypes as mistakes our brains make in the perception of other people similar to those mistakes our brains make in the perception of visual illusions.

Negatively judging the aspects of another culture by the standards of one's own culture is ______.

China views U.S.demands for the Chinese to improve their human rights policies as attacks on its sovereignty.

Psychologists have identified the highly prejudiced individual as having a(n)______ personality.

Discuss how profiling can become ethnic stereotyping.

The term Asian American was created early in the 19th century to refer to all people of Asian descent in the United States.