CrossCulturalCommunication

Why is it important to understand cultural values?

• Cultural values are interesting from a historical perspective.

• Cultural values change slowly as cultures change.

• Cultural values influence and guide behavior.

It is always easy for people to describe ideas or values of their own culture.

• True

• False

What is one reason that it is possible to make generalizations about American culture despite the diversity in the US?

• The same educational institutions, political system, economy, and mass media play a part in the "Americanization" of most people living in the US.

• All immigrants must learn American history before they can become citizens.

• There are no differences among the ethnic groups, and together they form an American culture 

_____ is the process of an immigrant to the United States becoming a person who shares American values, beliefs, and customs by assimilating into American society.

( paragraph K)

Answer explanation

Americanization

_____refers to people born in the United States, with at least one first-generation (immigrant) parent.

( paragraph K)

Which of the following would not be considered mainstream American values?

• hierarchy, tradition, and spiritulism

• independence, informality, and self-help

• egalitarianism, individualism, and an emphasis on future time

The relationship of individualism to attitudes and practices regarding privacy is an example of:

• how people must change their values to adapt to another culture.

• how values may be different across cultures.

• how values affect behavior and attitudes.

The fact that in Russian and Japanese there is no exact translation for the word "privacy" means that:

• Russians and Japanese do not need privacy.

• Russians and Japanese cannot have privacy because they live in small homes.

• Russians and Japanese may have a different concept of privacy.

The American ideal of equality means that:

• in the United States, everyone is equal.

• in the United States, the goal is equality.

• in the United States, employees, and their bosses have no status differences 

People can better understand their cultual values if:

• they compare them with the values of a different culture

• they compare them with the values of individuals from the same culture

• they read about values in a sociology text book