[COMM 2303] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (36 pages long!)

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2303
• Professor: Margaret Williams

Document Summary

Why study intercultural communication: the number of hate groups operating in the us continued to rise in 2008, and has grown by 54 percent since 2000. This has been fuelled by immigration fears, a failing economy, and the campaign of barack obama. People around the world watch the us elections. There was a lot of excitement, as well as a lot of anger generated by the election of obama: tea for trump campaign. A tea company in india organised a campaign where women from india wearing sarees carried tea leaves to the trump towers in new york to protest against his campaign. Their video highlighted the general position of indians on the current presidential race. Six reasons for studying intercultural communication: the self-awareness imperative. To gain awareness of your own cultural identity and to avoid ethnocentrism: ethnocentrism: the idea that one"s own culture is superior to others, there is a difference between patriotism, or love of one"s country, and ethnocentrism.