Intercultural communication review 1

What is intercultural awareness?

• Being aware of your own culture

• Being aware

• Being aware of others

• Being aware of everyone's culture

Diversity in the workplace can be based on

• ethnic heritage

• age or gender.

• religion

• all of the above

As it pertains to communication, culture influences the

• meanings of words

• importance of nonverbal signals.

• use of time and space

• all of the above

What defines us as individuals is

• ethnicity

• culture

• diversity

• none of the above

The business advantages of today's diverse workforce include

• a wider range of views and ideas

• a better understanding of world markets

• a broader talent pool to recruit from

• all of the above

Xenophobia is the fear of

• crises

• working in unfamiliar environments

• strangers and foreigners

• change

Ethnocentrism can be overcome in part by

• avoiding assumptions

• ignoring the distinctions among cultures

• judging other groups according to your own standards

• believing your culture communicates better than others

In high context cultures

• people rely more on nonverbal cues to convey meaning

• the rules of everyday life are highly explicit

• people rely less on the environment to convey meaning

• all of the above occur

To convey meaning in low context cultures , people rely more on

• gestures and vocal inflection

• explicit verbal communication

• indirectness and metaphors

• situational cues

Members of the ............... were born in 1946 -1964

• Radio Generation

• Baby Boomer Generation

• Lost Generation

• Millennial Generation