Media & Intercultural Communication

Communication strategy used to “save” our own or someone else’s “face,” or public image to avoid conflict is called…

• Facework

• Ambiguity

• Feeling

• Mutuality

Conflict resolution style that emphasizes an indirect approach for dealing with conflict and a more emotionally restrained manner is called…

• discussion style

• engagement style

• accommodating style

• dynamic style

K-pop is making billions for South Korea by producing music, drama, and movies. Industries that produce and sell popular culture as commodities is called…

• folk culture

• cultural industries

• pop culture

• high culture

When Captain America: The First Avenger was released in cinemas in 2011, it did quite well at the box office its opening weekend by earning $65.8 million. Other Hollywood movies have also been successful worldwide. Domination through the spread of cultural products is called….

• cultural imperialism

• media imperialism

• cultural colonialism

• media colonialism

Styles of interaction for intercultural couples in which one partner yields to the other partner’s cultural patterns, abandoning or denying his or her own culture, is called…

• immersion style

• compromise style

• obliteration style

• consensus style

The capacity to “walk in another person’s shoes” is called…

• sympathy

• tolerance

• empathy

• understand

A notion of ethically working with and through cultural differences and power inequities to achieve understanding, intercultural growth, mutuality, and social and global justice through critical self-transformation is called…

• intercultural communication

• interpersonal communication

• multicultural communication

• cosmopolitan communication

A situation where political borders become increasingly more irrelevant, economic interdependencies are heightened, and national differences due to dissimilarities in societal cultures are central issues of business, is called…

• localization

• globalization

• immigration

• coalition

Cultures differ in their understanding of the causes, treatments, and prevention of illness. A perspective that an entity is not as discrete parts but as an integrated whole. That is, an entity consists of interdependent, interacting parts. When applied to the medical profession, an individual is seen as a whole composed of interdependent parts, including physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. This is the perspective of…

• holistic

• medical

• supernatural

• magico

According to the U-curve model, cultural adaptation has four phases, except..

• honeymoon

• recovery

• adjustment

• anxiety