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ICC 1st test
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Communication
Undergraduate 4
10/07/2013

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6 dialectics
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Cultural/individual
Personal/Context
differences/similarities
Static/dynamic
History/past/present/future awareness
Privilege/disadvantage
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Culture
Definition
the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
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Communication
Definition
A symbolic process whereby reality is produced,maintained, repaired, and transformed.
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Race
Definition
1. a set of ideas about one's own ethnic group membership; 2. a sense of belonging to a particular group and knowing something about the shared experience of a group
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Ethnocentrism
Definition
A tendency to think that our own culture views superior to other cultures
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Embodied ethnocentrism
Definition
Feeling comfortable and familiar in the spaces, behaviors, and actions of others in our own cultural surroundings
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Anglocentrism
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Using Anglo or white cultural standards as the criteria for interpretations and judgments of behaviors or attitudes.
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Assimilation
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Nativism
Definition
Extremely patriotic to the point of being anti-immigrant
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Myth of the American dream
Definition
That every man woman and child are equal and all have the same opportunities if they work hard enough and play by the rules.
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Monolith
Definition
Grouping a group or community into segment of cultures. White people are white people
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Role of power in intercultural interactions
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The legacy, the remnants of the history that leaves cultural groups in a particular position
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Dialectical perspective
Definition
Understanding the past of a person
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Dialogical approach
Definition
An approach to interculteral communication that integrates three approaches fuctionalist (social science)interpretive and critical-in understanding culture and communication. It recongnized and accepts that the threee approaches are interconnected and sometimes contradictory
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Grand narrative
Definition
A unified history and view of mankind
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6 imperatives for studying intercultural communication
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Economic
Technological
Peace
Ethical
Relativity versus Universality
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Nation of immigrants/melting pot (cultural groups’ experiences with melting)
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Written histories
Definition
More access (political, intellectual and social)
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Unwritten/absent histories
Definition
any part of history that was not recorded or that is missing. Not everything that happened in the past is accessible to us today because only some voices were documented and only some perspectives were recorded.
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Nonmainstream histories
Definition
Absent Histories-lost or unrecoverable
Hidden Histories- hidden or forgotten or marginalized challenged mainstream representations
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Culture as performative (rituals, etc.)
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Media as a tool of colonialism
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• Social science, interpretive, and critical approaches to culture
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Social science, interpretive, and critical approaches to communication
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Digital divide
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Power distance
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Feminine/masculine value systems
Definition
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Cultural identities and their link to history
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Paradigms
Definition
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US history and its relationship to white, modernistidentity
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Kroll
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Cargile
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Miner
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