Intercultural Communication- Lecture 1

which one of these qualify as cultural groups. You may tick more than one

• Muslims

• Japanese

• men

• students

• women

social psychologist believe

• that culture is a kind of embodied ethnocentrism

• that culture involves “the programming of the mind”

• culture is heterogenous and often have conflictual cultural boundaries.

Critical definitions of culture mostly emphasize

• that culture is a kind of embodied ethnocentrism

• that culture involves “the programming of the mind”

• culture is heterogenous and often have conflictual cultural boundaries.

Embodied ethnocentricism means that

• people of the same cultural groups will find comfort in their shared values

• people of the same group will find it easy to adapt to other cultural groups

say if the following is true or false: "Critical scholars argue that in emphasizing only the shared aspects of culture, we gloss over the many interesting differences that exist in a single nation"

• True

• false

The definition of culture as “shared and transmitted from generation to generation” is hegemonic because

• it works in favor of the dominant group in society

• it works in favor of the dominated group in society

• it works in favor of both the dominant and dominated groups in society

choose the correct word to fill in the blank:

Viewing culture as a contested site helps us understand the ( ....) of various groups

• comfort

• happiness

• struggles

Communication can be both verbal and non-verbal

• Correct

• incorrect

• sometimes

variables like gender, age, social status, etc. influence communication

• Correct

• incorrect

• sometimes

According to the interpretive perspective, The symbolic nature of communication means

• that the words we speak or the gestures we make have no inherent meaning.

• that the words we speak or the gestures we make have inherent meaning.