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• Values and behavior styles
• languages and dialects
• cultural cognitiveness
• identification
• perspectives, world views, frame of reference
• nonverbal communications

• abstract, generalized principles of behavior to which members of society hold in high regard
• individuals acquire during socialization
• one of the most improtant elements
• influence behavior

Mexican-American and Anglo-Americans (thinking and learning styles)

• Mex-americans - prefer to work with other people to achieve goal
• Anglo-americans - prefer to work independently

• determines how people view and intrepret world
• usually there is a national language in nations
• in U.S. there are different types of english spoken (black english, southern accents)
• in 2004, 1 out of 7 students in US spoke language other than english at home

• how people look at each other, use their body
• often reveals subtle but important components of culture or microculture
• Example: study of native americans, how nonverbal communication differed from their anglo teachers
• looking someone in the eye is offensive in some cultures

• can create what is considered "normal" in culture or microculture
• some perspectives just occur more frequently
• example: japanese americans perspectives on WWII internment; african american perspectives on Civil Rights movement are held by microculture groups and may differ with perspective from other microcultures

• a person feels a part of the cultural or microcultural group he identifies with and internalizes its goals, interests, values and standards
• Example: individual african-american or jewish american or jamaican in UK may have a weak or strong identification with ethnic group

• individuals are not just their race or gender or social class
• each variable influences the behavior of individuals
• gender, social class, race, ethnic group, disable or non-disabled, religion, region