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| Shared beliefs, values, norms, & social practices that are stable over time & that lead to roughly similar behaviors across similar situations. |
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| An idea that people assume to be true about the world. |
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| Predictable behavior patterns that members of a culture typically follow. |
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| Culture's fundamental teachings about what reality is & expectations about how the world works. |
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| Refer to matters of personal taste |
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| Desired characteristics/goals of a culture. |
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| Refers to whether the value is seen as positive/negative. |
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| Socially shared expectations of appropriate behavior. |
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| Knowledge, skills, and personal attributes needed to live and work in a diverse world. |
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| Extent to which the culture feels threatened by ambiguous, uncertain situations or tries to avoid them by establishing more structure. |
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| Individualism vs. Collectivism |
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| Most important attribute that distinguishes one group from another; Degree to which a culture relies on & has allegiance to the self or the group. |
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| Culture minimizes differences in gender expectations for men versus women. |
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| Time-Orientation Dimension |
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| Refers to person's point of reference about life & work. |
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| Juxtaposes hedonism w/self-discipline. |
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| View of human actions expressed through activities. |
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| Doing continuum; Inaction; Contemplative behaviors; Evolving |
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| Prefer to use high context messages in which most of the meaning is either implied by the physical setting or presumed to be part of the individual's internalized beliefs, values, norms, & social practices; very little is provided in the coded, explicit, transmitted part of the message |
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| The majority of the information is vested in the explicit code. |
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| Which cultural group is typical of the saying "Putting your cards on the table?" |
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| Humans are subjugated by nature is a characteristic of... |
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| Not all cultural members share... |
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| Cultures inconsistent with your own might... |
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| Negatively evaluate others |
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| The degree to which people express pride, loyalty, & solidarity w/their family or similar group. |
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| Institutional Collectivism |
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| Represents the degree to which cultures support, value, & prefer to distribute rewards based on groups vs. individual interests. |
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| Describes extent to which people value & prefer tough aggressiveness or tender nonaggressiveness. |
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| Degree to which a culture encourages & rewards people for their accomplishments. |
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| Degree to which a culture plans for forthcoming events. |
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| Extent to which cultures encourage & reward their members for being benevolent & compassionate toward others or are concerned with self-interest & self-gratification. |
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| Share context; belongs; commitment to group is strong |
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| Those to which you don't belong |
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| The authors of our book say to improve intercultural competence involves... |
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| Willingness to reflect on one's own personal preferences. |
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| Refers to one's sense of belonging to a particular culture or ethnic group. |
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| Common human tendency to draw on their personal experiences to understand & evaluate the motivations of others. |
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| Interaction within our own culture reduces... |
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| Obstacles to intercultural competence is... |
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| Simplification of information |
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| Selection process that is used to organize & simplify perceptions of others. |
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| Refers to negative attitudes toward other people that are based on faulty, inflexible stereotypes. |
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| Outgroup Homogeneity Effect |
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| Refers to perception of outgroup members as more similar to one another than are ingroup members. |
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| Any kind of system of inequality based on race. |
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| Occurs when individuals who highly value fairness & equality among all racial & cultural groups nevertheless have negative beliefs & feelings about members of a particular race, often as a result of childhood socialization experiences. |
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| Symbolic Racism (Modern Racism) |
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| Members of a group with political & economic power believe that members of some other group threaten their traditional values, such as individualism & self-reliance. |
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