Communication and Culture Final Exam
Course Introduction
Communication and Culture explores the intricate relationship between communication practices and cultural contexts, examining how meaning is created, negotiated, and understood among diverse groups. The course delves into theories of intercultural communication, cultural identity, language, and nonverbal behaviors, emphasizing the influence of cultural values, norms, and power dynamics on communication. Through case studies, discussions, and critical analyses, students develop a deeper awareness of their own cultural assumptions and acquire skills to engage effectively and ethically in a globalized, multicultural world.
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An Introduction to Intercultural Communication 9th Edition by Fred E. Jandt
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Chapter 1: Defining Culture and Communication
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Q1) Discuss how the telephone has served as a medium of intercultural communication.
Answer: Varies,but students may discuss differences in use for both traditional phone calls and text messaging or SMS.Students may also discuss the cultural implications due to the barriers of the lack of contextual cues other than those related to voice.
Q2) Culture is a code we learn and share,and learning and sharing require communication.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Discuss how definitions of communication are cultural.
Answer: Varies,but students should explain how to be understood,the two must be studied together.Culture cannot be known without a study of communication,and communication can only be understood with an understanding of the culture it supports.Students may then compare Western views of communication and Confucian views of communication,for example.
Q4) ______ refers to the identification with and perceived acceptance into a group that has a shared system of symbols and meanings as well as norms for conduct.
Answer: Cultural identity
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Chapter 2: Barriers to Intercultural Communication
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Q1) Discuss how stereotyping can become a self-fulfilling prophecy for the person stereotyped.
Answer: Varies,but students should note a negative stereotype creates a threat that can distract the individual stereotyped and lower performance.
Q2) Who applied uncertainty reduction theory to intercultural communication by developing the concept of the "stranger"?
A) Boucher
B) Cohen
C) Gudykunst and his colleagues
D) Yosei Sugawara
Answer: C
Q3) In the United States,the term ______ describes how a dominant culture empowers some over others,due to race.
Answer: White privilege
Q4) The United States leads all nations in carbon dioxide emissions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Context, Perception, and Competence
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Q1) Compare and contrast low-context and high-context culture.
Answer: Varies,but all should define low-context cultures as those in which little of the meaning is determined by the context because the message is encoded in the explicit code and high-context cultures as those in which less has to be said or written because more of the meaning is in the physical environment or already shared by people.
Q2) ______ refers to attaching meaning to sense data and is synonymous with decoding.
A) Sensation
B) Organization
C) Selection
D) Interpretation
Answer: D
Q3) According to Kale (1997),ethical ______ address people of other cultures with the same respect that they would like to receive themselves.
Answer: communicators
Q4) A ______ person is one who respects cultures and has tolerance for differences.
Answer: multicultural
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Chapter 4: Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Which of the following is a characteristics of the wai gesture?
A) It is a learned behavior in France.
B) It is a learned behavior in Nigeria.
C) It is used to pay homage to Confucius.
D) It varies by the degree of deference that is called for.
Q2) A gesture,such as a wave,is included in the study of ______.
A) haptics
B) kinesics
C) olfactics
D) artifactual communication
Q3) Researchers found evidence for how many universal nonverbal expressions?
A) two
B) seven
C) three
D) five
Q4) Even if a smile is universally recognized as a sign of friendliness,it has other meanings specific to a culture.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Many American-Indian people understand time to be ______.
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Chapter 5: Language as a Barrier
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Q1) The English language has a Germanic structure.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss and give examples for the translation problems related to idioms.
Q3) In the Eskimo language,there is a consistent use of the word ______ in reference to the future; linguists have associated this grammatical trend with the harsh environment that Eskimos live in,where there is little control over nature.
Q4) In the interpretation of linguistic relativism,the difference between languages is not what can be said,but ______.
A) how fast it is said
B) how it is said
C) what cannot be said
D) what is relatively easy to say
Q5) Discuss and give examples for the translation problems related to vocabulary.
Q6) What is language?
Q7) Discuss how the Qur'an is related to Arabic culture and language.
Q8) The most commonly used second language in the United States during the 19th century was ______.
Q9) Discuss issues related to machines as translators.
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Chapter 6: Dimensions of Nation-State Cultures
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Q1) A country high on the Environmental Sustainability Index (indicating high performance in environmental protection)is ______.
A) China
B) Saudi Arabia
C) Sweden
D) United Kingdom
Q2) In cultures with ______ power distance,children are expected to be obedient toward parents and people are expected to display respect for those of higher status.
Q3) ______ is related to the direct style of communication.
A) Femininity
B) Masculinity
C) Collectivism
D) Individualism
Q4) ______ orientation encourages thrift,savings,perseverance toward results,and a willingness to subordinate oneself for a purpose.
Q5) Individualism is associated with an indirect style of communication.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Dominant USCultural Patterns Using Value
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Q1) North America was home to a diverse population of how many before the time of Columbus?
A) 1 million
B) 5 million
C) 10 million
D) 20 million
Q2) As a culture,the United States is less likely to make short-term sacrifices for long-term gain.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When time is viewed in a ______ fashion,as it is in the United States,it obviously has a past,a present,and a future.
Q4) Identify origins of U.S cultural patterns.
Q5) People in the United States tend to view time as ______.
A) a commodity
B) mutable
C) rational
D) relational
Q7) Discuss what is meant by hyperindividualism. Page 9
Q6) Discuss how goodness is viewed in the United States.
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Chapter 8: Religion and Identity
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Q1) Fasting during Ramadan is ______.
A) one of the religious obligations of Muslims
B) not an obligation for Muslims
C) strongly encouraged for Muslims
D) nonexistent
Q2) Islam is the only world religion that offers rules by which to govern a ______ as well as a set of spiritual beliefs in its holy book.
Q3) Sunni Muslims compose what percentage of the world's Muslims?
A) 90%
B) 70%
C) 50%
D) 30%
Q4) Social lives in Arab culture are ______.
A) based on work and other aspects of human activity
B) based on leisure and intellectual interests
C) organized around family
D) similar to Western concepts of individuality
Q5) Between the 10th century and the 20th century,various geographical areas within the Arab world were ruled by a chief Muslim civil and religious leader or a ______.
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Chapter 9: Culture and Gender
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Q1) Discuss the economic measurement of the World Economic Forum study.
Q2) The term ______ refers to people who identify with the sex assigned at birth.
Q3) ______ countries have some sort of female quota for political representation.
Q4) Japan's equal employment opportunity laws ______. A) are not particularly effective in Japan's male-centered workplace B) have been suspended during Japan's economic slump C) were enacted in the 1950s D) were enacted in the 1970s
Q5) Discuss the Gender-Related Development Index (GDI)and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM).
Q6) Cultures regulate how many spouses a person can have,which partner has more authority and dominance in the union,and from what group a person can choose a partner.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Gender identity is usually established by the age of ______.
A) 1
B) 3
C) 8
D) 11
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Chapter 10: Immigration and Acculturation
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Q1) Assimilation is generally a short-term process.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An individual experiencing cultural shock has achieved ______ when they have developed the ability to cope comfortably in both the home and new cultures.
A) culturalism
B) biculturalism
C) multiculturalism
D) coculturalism
Q3) The first stage of culture shock is sometimes called the "______ stage."
Q4) Name and discuss major contributing countries to immigration into the United States.
Q5) Discuss the role of the Great Depression in U.S.immigration.
Q6) The United States is host to more ______ than any other nation.
Q7) What factors contributed to Germany changing its asylum law?
Q8) The second wave of immigration was from 1904 to ______.
Q9) Discuss the issues related to immigration to Brazil,followed by a discussion of the waves of immigration to Brazil.
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Q10) Discuss true integration and contrast integration and assimilation.
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Chapter 11: Cultures Within Cultures
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Q1) Discuss the issues related to the notion of Amerienglish.
Q2) Advertisers marketing in Spanish have made ______ errors.
Q3) What percentage of Amish youth choose to accept an Amish identity?
A) 20-30%
B) 80-90%
C) 40-50%
D) 60-70%
Q4) The trend today is to assimilate indigenous peoples into national cultures as quickly as possible.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The largest Spanish-language television network in the United States is ______.
A) Galavision
B) SIN
C) Telemundo
D) Univision
Q6) The term Latino refers to Spanish-speaking individuals who came from,or whose ancestors came from,anywhere in Latin America.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Identity and Subgroups
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Q1) Dick Hebdige showed that it was how British punk youth culture used commodities that marked the subgroup off from the dominant culture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Identify the elements of Southwest Airlines' corporate culture.
Q3) At Google,core employees have autonomy but work with a single unifying philosophy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which country has both low religiosity and a low level of acceptance of homosexuality?
Q5) What role does argot play within a subgroup?
A) It erases the group's cultural identity.
B) It connects members to the dominant culture.
C) It changes the history of the subgroup.
D) It defines the boundaries of the subgroup.
Q6) Among the consequences of ______ are the potential for emotional and physical harm to those being labeled.
Q7) Explain and exemplify why argot has specific and unambiguous meaning.
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Chapter 13: Contact Between Cultures
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Q1) The initiation of contact among previously separated cultures has been the major world event of past centuries.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The dehumanization of Hawaiians into "others" contributed to the near ______ of Hawaiian culture.
Q3) Cultural exchanges have had the intent to help develop the country or ______ for the purpose of economic gain.
Q4) Ritzer's critique of the efficiency model originating in U.S.corporations is a critique of ______.
A) the McDonaldization of society
B) the Disneyfication of culture
C) standardization
D) the U.S. Spam food
Q5) An example of adopting new practices during cultural exchange is ______.
A) Captain Cook's voyage to Hawaii
B) Captain Arthur Phillip's voyage to Australia
C) Columbus' voyages to the New World
D) none of these
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Chapter 14: Future Challenges
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Q1) According to Cannadine (2013),it is difficult to substantiate that there is solidarity among all ______.
A) countries
B) men
C) continents
D) women
Q2) Cultures feel threatened by the spread of products and ideas from one culture to another.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to Putnam,increased ______ and diversity not only are inevitable in modern societies but over the long term are desirable.
Q4) Huntington asserts that the clash of the Western civilization and which other civilization dates back 1,300 years?
A) Native American
B) Asian
C) African
D) Islamic
Q5) Discuss nation-state as a source of identity.
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