COM 439 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Cross-Cultural Communication, Ethnocentrism, Proxemics
12 Oct 2018
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COM 439
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Chapter 1 Lecture
● Adler
○ Self Awareness Imperative
■ Journey into others leads to a journey into self
■ Things that are unique to particular cultures or regions
● Ethnocentrism
○ The thought that your culture is superior to all others
● Majority vs minority
● Anglocentrism
○ Anything anglo (white) is the best and the standard for defining things
● Melting pot
○ Immigrant nation
○ Mix of different kinds of communities
● Nativistic
○ Extremely patriotic
○ Anti-immigrant
● Enclaves
○ Small community or culture surrounded by another community or culture
● Economic class
○ Fussell
● Guanxi
○ Connections
○ In Asia you have to work harder for business, trust, and respect
● We live in an age of globalization
● Global village (Marshall McLuhan)
○ Technology unites people
○ Technology increases knowledge
■ People, cultures
○ Technology increases contact
■ With alike and different people
● Identity management
● Multipheria (Gergen)
○ Splitting of the personality
○ Multiple selves
■ Sorority self, home self, school self, etc.
● Identity tourism
○ Taking on various identities in different situations
● Impacts on intercultural communication
○ Haves vs have-nots
○ History of colonialism
○ Economic disparity
○ Cultural domination
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■ Ex: US controls pop culture
○ Failure to address pertinent cultural values
○ Dialectically
● Use a dialogue
● Self-reflexive
○ Know yourself and how you interact with things
● Self knowledge
● Six imperatives for intercultural communication
○ Self awareness
○ Demographics
○ Economic
○ Technologic
○ Peace (colonialism)
○ Ethical
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Document Summary
Journey into others leads to a journey into self. Things that are unique to particular cultures or regions. The thought that your culture is superior to all others. Anything anglo (white) is the best and the standard for defining things. Small community or culture surrounded by another community or culture. In asia you have to work harder for business, trust, and respect. We live in an age of globalization. Sorority self, home self, school self, etc. Taking on various identities in different situations. Know yourself and how you interact with things. Underlying assumptions about the nature of reality and human behavior. Language shapes our ideas and guides our social reality (relativist position) Framework that assumes different interpretations of reality. Select, evaluate, and organize information or stimuli from the external environment. Individual focuses on a single person, collective focuses on the group. What do you do to reduce anxiety or uncertainty. Need to save face is stronger in collective culture.
