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Communication and Cultural Diversity Exam I with ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




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all people share a common ancestry from - correct answer✔✔Africa
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world's languages originated in - correct answer✔✔Africa
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ethnography - correct answer✔✔a study of the culture by emerging yourself in the culture ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




cultural studies - correct answer✔✔reading books, using the internet, etc. to study a culture
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concern for poor and rich countries - correct answer✔✔immigration ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




the greater the diversity in the community, the (greater/lesser) the civic engagement -
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correct answer✔✔lesser ||\\//||




reframe - correct answer✔✔change a word to bring it into a positive light (example: dikes on
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bikes)
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co-cultures - correct answer✔✔new word for subcultures; part of a culture ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




we are part of co-cultures our entire lives and they differ throughout the lifespan (example:
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sorority/fraternity, occupation, men or women, gay or lesbian, bikers, etc.); suggests that no ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




one culture is inherently superior to the other coexisting culture; mutuality may not be easily
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established; cultures within cultures
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value - correct answer✔✔what someone believes
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,behavior - correct answer✔✔acting based on values ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




cultural identity - correct answer✔✔identify with a group; feel accepted by group; share
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music, symbols, myths, language/slang, and heros
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culture - correct answer✔✔a community or population sufficiently large enough to be self-
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sustaiing with a totality of that group's thoughts, experiences, and patterns of behavior,
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concepts, values, and assumptions about life that guide behavior with the transmission of
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these thoughts and behaviors from birth over the course of generations
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UN Assembly General attempted to enact a law in 1979 - correct answer✔✔to give women
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equal rights (example: hiring)
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symbols - correct answer✔✔verbal and nonverbal language (example: signs on the road,
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rituals - correct answer✔✔socially essential collective activities within a culture (example:
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marriage, funeral, baby shower) ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




values - correct answer✔✔feelings not open for discussion within a culture about what is
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good or bad ||\\//|| ||\\//||




heroes - correct answer✔✔real or imaginary people who serve as behavior models within a
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culture (example: in myths which can be subject of novels and literature; MLK, Ghandi,
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president)



increased tolerance of diversity results from - correct answer✔✔learning about yourself
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when you study other cultures
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, subculture - correct answer✔✔resembles a culture in that it usually encompasses a relatively ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




large number of people; exists within dominant culture and is often a subdivision based on
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economic or social class, ethnicity, race, or geographic isolation ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




ethnicity - correct answer✔✔nothing to do with race; another basis for subcultures; can
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refer to a group of people of the same descent and heritage who shave a common and
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distinctive culture passed on through generations; distinguishing characteristics: language, ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




accent, physical features, family names, customs, and religion
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subgroup - correct answer✔✔membership groups; like cultures, subgroups provide members ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




with relatively complete sets of values and patterns of behavior and in many ways pose
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similar communication problems as cultures; exists within a dominant culture and dependent
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on that culture (example: occupation)
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race - correct answer✔✔a large body of people characterized by similarity of descent; may
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include some physical characteristics or characteristics of heredity but skin color alone does
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not define race; no gene has been isolated for race
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white privilege - correct answer✔✔how a dominant culture empowers some while denying
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others



intercultural communication - correct answer✔✔interactions among people of diverse ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




cultures



Foreign Service Act - correct answer✔✔formal study of intercultural communication when
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military needed to know about the people they were fighting ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




intercultural communication competence - correct answer✔✔one's skill in facilitating ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




successful intercultural communication outcomes in terms of satisfaction and other positive ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




assessments of the interaction and ther interaction partner ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||

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