COM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Cultural Relativism, Eye Contact, Acculturation
2 Dec 2016
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Immigrants original cultural values are shifted towards those of the culture they have immigrated to. The immigrant goes beyond simply acquiring the necessary level of cultural understanding sufficient for day to day functioning, embraces their newly acquired cultural values, and rejects their old cultural perspectives. Immigrant returns to their cultural roots by re-emphasizing their original cultural heritage, withdrawing to some degree of their new cultural environment and limiting cultural assimilation. Obvious differences: (cid:449)here the parties i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)ed do(cid:374)"t share the same language. Interactions in which each party speaks a different language. Subtle differences: differences in using words/languages. Ex: self-references: culturally distinct associations for shared words words that are identical or highly similar can have different meanings, taboo topics/words topics that are not discussed publically in a particular culture. Different nonverbal codes: significant, but not absolute. Some nv cues seem to be universally expressed/recognized to some degree.
