Exam 8: Adapting Communication to Cultures and Social Communities

__________ is the assumption that our culture is right and its norms are the only right ones.

Toleration is a response in which we accept and approve differences between us and other social groups.

Which of the communication cultures or co-cultures below tends to favor competitiveness in interaction, limited emotional responsiveness, and a focus on accomplishing instrumental goals?

__________ occurs when people give up their ways and adopt the ways of the dominant culture.

We learn our own culture's perspectives and rules by __________.

Define culture and discuss at least three ways in which communication and culture are closely linked. Provide examples for each of the three ways.

Identify the five responses in the process of adapting to cultural diversity. Provide an example of each response in the same communication context.

A culture includes a number of __________ __________, groups of people who live within a dominant culture yet also belong to another social group or groups.

Men who are socialized in masculine communities typically __________.

Discuss the four guidelines for adapting communication to diverse cultures and social communities. Give examples for each.

__________ __________ claims that social groups within a culture distinctively shape the perceptions, identities, and opportunities of members.

Eye-contact is a primary indicator of culture.

Nonverbal communication expressions of the overall dominant European-American culture heritage in the United States today is reflected __________.

__________ is the response to diversity when we incorporate some practices and values of other groups into our own.

The type of communication styles used by individualistic cultures which are very explicit, detailed, and precise are __________.

__________ __________ is the idea that cultures vary in how they think, act, and behave, as well as in what they believe and value.

Resistance is a response to social diversity that devalues other cultures.

The idea that any culture includes a number of social groups with distinct perceptions, identities, and ways of interacting is associated with __________.

The type of cultures in which people act relatively independent of others in the culture.

"I don't approve of the gay lifestyle, but I can accept it." This response reflects which of the following orientations to cultural diversity?