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  • Negative cultural diversity

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  • negative attitude of other cultures

  • Stereotype-

  • when false and inaccurate characteristics are attributed to an individual

  •   Sociotyping-

  • when false and inaccurate characteristics are attributed to a cultural group as a collective.

  • Assimilation-

  • forced or by choice to take on another's cultural ways at the expense of your own culture.

  • Acculturation-

  • blending your own culture and adding on the ways of another culture while retaining your own sense of cultural identity.

  • Ethnicity-

  • refers to the sense of belonging to a cultural group

  • Culture-

  • "A total way of life of a people. The environment in which the people live-their language, their philosophy, their standard of behavior, their beliefs and their aspirations."

  • Deep Culture-

  • considering the roots of a culture-meaningful significance of what it is truly like to be a part of that culture ( family, roles, ceremonies, myths, grooming, values, time)

  • Surface Culture-

  • superficial understanding or naive understanding of a culture (food, holidays, personalities, art, music)

  • Ethnocentrism-

  • believing your culture is superior compared to others

  • High-Involvement-

    more gregarious in social dynamic-interrupt, loud, animated

  • High-Considerateness

    -more formal in etiquette-not interrupting, politely listens, attentive

  • Low-Context-

    As E. Hall explains: "Words and sentences have different meanings depending on the context in which they are embedded" (p. 31). Information about what is expected is readily available-instructions, directions, clearly explained as to how to behave and what constitutes appropriateness. (American culture in the middle of high & low context cultures; unstable & changing over time.)

  • High Context Cultures

    - People do not have to speak or explain very much about what is expected about appropriateness; they know what others mean, think and expect. (static-traditional)

  • Field-Dependent-

  • students need to see the whole picture (global perspective) first before information is broken into bite size pieces. Tend to like to work cooperatively and works well in informal, social settings. Appreciates story format. Learns in context.

     

  • Field-Independent Learners-

  • students like to work independently; competitive, logical sequential ordering of information culminating in the whole picture. Comfortable with abstract thinking; self-centered thinking.

  • Chronemics-people's use and perception of time (Monochronic or Polychronic)

  • Proxemics-people's use and perceive body space

  • Haptics-people's use of touch to communicate

  • Paralinguistics-people's use of vocal and nonverbal utterances that communicate and augment meaning.