L2. IC project. Cultural Value Patterns

1. In a culture, African Americans and Mexican American fight against racism via social movements. They value:

• Doing solution

• Being solution

• Being-in-becoming solution

2. A culture which confronts a natural disaster, such as floods, by building dams, bridges, and other water-control features, is operating from which people-nature value orientation?

• Controlling their environment value solution

• Harmony-with-nature or “flowing” value solution

• Subjugation-to-nature or “yielding” value solution

3. Traditional Asian Americans and Native Americans tend to value past experience and wisdom of elder people. They value:

• schedule

• tradition

• present

4. Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant. Value emphasis:

• yielding to nature

• controlling nature

• living harmoniously with nature

5. The person who has achieved success has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. Value emphasis:

• Doing solution

• Being solution

• Being in becoming solution

6. What is a low-context culture?

• Culture in which information is communicated implicitly through nonverbal communication.

• Culture in which information is communicated primarily through language and rules are explicitly spelled out.

• Culture in which there is low meaning in any situation

• None of the above

7. What is a high-context culture?

• Cultures in which the rules are primarily communicated through the use of contextual elements (i.e., body language, a person's status, tone of voice) and are not explicitly stated.

• Cultures in which the rules are primarily communicated through words.

• Cultures in which relationships are more important than the contextual situation.

• None of the options are correct.

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

• True

• False

9. Which of these countries is an example of a low-context culture?

• America

• China

• Japan

• Vietnam

10. Using formal titles to refer to your professor would be most common in a/an ______ culture.

• Low power distance

• Low context

• High power distance

• Polychronic