Intercultural Communication

A person's culture is determined by his/her ethnicity.

• True

• False

Highly feminine cultures value this characteristic more so than highly masculine cultures.

• Ambition

• Competition

• Achievement

• Nurturance

People raised in this type of culture are taught to believe that all people are equal and that no one person or group should have excessive power.

• High power distance culture

• Low power distance culture

• High context culture

• Masculine culture

In a high context culture, people are expected to be direct, clear and explicit in their communication with others.

• False

• True

Mark hates to be late to anything: he gets anxious at even the thought of being late, especially to events he believes are important. This orientation toward time is known as

• Monochronic

• Polychronic

• Ethnocentric

• Expressive

Within many large cultures are a host of smaller groups of people researchers refer to as

• Pidgin

• Creole

• Co-culture

• Dialect

The phrase "looking-out for number 1" is reflective of the ____ cultural viewpoint.

• Individualistic

• Collectivistic

• High-power distance

• Polychronic

The perception of time as holistic, fluid and unstructured is associated with which culture?

• Low-power distance

• High-context

• Monochronic

• Polychronic

People in ___ cultures are raised to believe that certain people deserve to have more power than others.

• low power distance

• low context

• high power distance

• high context

Germany, Japan and Italy are among the countries that adopt the ____ culture

• Individualistic

• Monochronic

• High-power distance

• Masculine