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| intercultural communication |
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| communication between and among individuals and groups from different cultural backgrounds |
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| the shared, personal, and learned life experiences of a group of individuals who have a common set of values, norms, and traditions |
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| occurs when a person -either consciously or unconsciously- learns to identify with a particular culture and a culture's thinking, way of relating, and worldview |
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| occurs when a person learns, adapts to, and adopts the appropriate behaviors and rules of a host culture |
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| the common understandings among people who are committed to coexisting |
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| a culture within a culture |
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| a conflict over cultural expectations and experiences |
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| the concept that all societies, regardless of their size, are connected in some way. the term also can be used to describe how communication technology ties the world into one political, economical, social, and cultural system |
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| a practice in which a nation sends work and workers to a different country because doing so is cost efficient |
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| cultural variability theory |
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| a theory that describes the four value dimensions (individualism/collectivism,uncertainty avoidance, power distance, masculinity/femininity) that offer information regarding the value differences in a particular culture |
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| a cultural mindset that indicates how tolerant (or intolerant) a culture is of uncertainty and change |
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| how a culture perceives and distributes power |
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| a culture that emphasizes characteristics stereotypically associated with masculine people, such as achievement, competitiveness, strength, and material success |
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| a culture that emphasizes characteristics stereotypically associated with feminine people, such as sexual equality, nurturance, quality of life, supportiveness, affection, and compassion for the less fortunate |
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| a cultural mindset that emphasizes self-concept and personal achievement and that prefers competition over cooperation, the individual over the group, and the private over the public |
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| a cultural mindset that emphasizes the group and its norms, values, and beliefs over the self |
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| context orientation theory |
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| the theory that meaning is derived from either the setting of the message or the words of a message and that cultures can vary in the extent to which message meaning is made explicit or implicit |
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| a culture in which there is a high degree of similarity among members and in which the meaning of a message is drawn primarily from its context, such as one's surroundings, rather than from words |
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| a culture in which there is a high degree of difference among members and in which the meaning of a message must be explicityly related, usually in words |
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| the process of judging another culture using the standards of our own culture |
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| a group to which a person feels he or she belongs |
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| a group to which a person feels he or she does not belong |
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| the process whereby individuals, companies, and/or the media impose their way of thinking and behaving upon another culture |
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| the learned ability to accurately understand the experiences of people from diverse cultures and to convey that understanding responsively |
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| the ability to avoid judging or condemning any practice in which any other culture engages |
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