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It originated with scholars looking for practical answers to help overseas workers.

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Which of the following is true about the development of the intercultural communication area of study?

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critical

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Which approach to intercultural communication has the goal of initiating social change?

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social science

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Which of the following approaches to intercultural communication views reality as external to humans?

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text and media analyses

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Which methods are primarily used in the critical approach to intercultural communication?

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functionalist approach

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The social science approach is also called the

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how macrocontexts such as political structures influence communication.

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Researchers using a critical perspective attempt to explain

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the possibility that the methods used are not culturally sensitive.

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One limitation of the social science approach is

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describe and predict human behavior.

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The goals for the social science approach are to

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proxemics

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The study of how people use personal space is called?

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static-dynamic dialectic

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Which dialectic of intercultural communication addresses the fact that some of our cultural patterns are constant and some are shifting?

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some people are disadvantaged in some contexts and privileged in other contexts.

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The Privilege-Disadvantage dialectic recognizes that

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Most of the researchers had international intercultural experience.

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Which of the following might explain why early intercultural researchers paid little attention to intercultural communication in domestic contexts?

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some people are disadvantaged in some contexts and privileged in other contexts.

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The Privilege-Disadvantage dialectic recognizes that

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assumptions about the nature of reality and human behavior.

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Worldviews are

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social science research.

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Gudykunst's studies of differences between individualist and collectivist cultures in how uncertainty is reduced during communication interactions is an example of

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False

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True or False: Researchers from the interpretive perspective assume the existence of an external reality can be described by researchers.

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True

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True or False: Hall suggests that different cultural groups have different rules for personal space and that these affect intercultural communication.

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True

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True or False: The strength of the interpretivist approach is that it provides an in-depth understanding of communication patterns in particular cultural communities.

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False

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True or False: The training that is meant to facilitate intercultural communication among various gender, ethnic and racial groups in the United States is called cross-cultural training.

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True

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True or False: Early intercultural communication research was dictated by the needs of middle-class U.S. professionals conducting business overseas.

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False

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True or False: Experiences of U.S government and business personnel working overseas after World War II suggest that language training alone is a sufficient form of preparation for working in foreign countries.

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False

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True or False: Social science, interpretivist, and critical perspectives are contradictory and cannot be connected in ways that help us better understand social reality.

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False

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True or False: The assumption that language shapes our ideas and guides our view of social reality is called the Gudykunst hypothesis.

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False

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True or False: The dialectical perspective suggests that people are either privileged or disadvantaged depending on the culture to which they belong.

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False

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True or False: The goal of researchers who study human behavior from the interpretive perspective is to explain and predict human behavior.

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culture is learned and shared

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A social science approach to defining culture would include which of the following?

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a programming of the mind

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Hofstede defined culture as

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They focused on the nation-state or ethnic group level of culture.

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Which is true of traditional definitions of culture in intercultural communication studies?

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deeply felt, commonly intelligible, widely accessible.

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Carbaugh suggests that the concept of culture is defined by patterns of symbolic action and meaning that are

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They are studying the way people enact and represent their worldviews.

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When researchers study culture as performative, what are they examining?

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communication

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"A symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired and transformed" is a definition of

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Culture and communication are not really related to each other.

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Which of the descriptions below is NOT an accurate representation of the relationship between communication and culture?

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cultural values

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The worldview and the set of deeply held beliefs of a cultural group defines

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symbolic and a process

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Which pair BEST describes communication?

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It has brought attention to the cultural groups that are trying to negotiate their identities in the United States.

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In what way has cultural studies influenced the study of intercultural communication?

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the meaning that most members of a cultural group attach to a communication activity.

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"Symbolic significance" in the definition of communication can be defined as

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human nature is basically good

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Religions such as Buddhism which focuses on improving the natural goodness of humans believe

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low degree of masculinity.

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A culture with less specific gender roles that values the quality of life for all has a

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What is the relationship of humans to nature?

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Dominance, harmony, and subjugation are all value orientations that correspond to which of the following cultural problems?

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collectivism

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A culture in which importance is placed on the family or work teams over the individual has a high degree of

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False

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True or Flase: The relationship between communication and culture may be best described by saying that culture has tremendous influence on communication but that communication only moderately affects culture.

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False

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True or False: In intercultural interactions, the status of the communicators has very little effect on their communication.

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True

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True or False: The social science approach to intercultural communication places emphasis on the role of perception in cultural patterns.

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True

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True or Flase: When ethnographers of communication suggest that observed cultural patterns are "deeply felt," it means that the patterns must be sensed collectively by members of the cultural group.

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False

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True or False: The acceptance of multiple perspectives toward defining culture enables a researcher to more narrowly define what culture is.

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False

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True or False: Uncertainty avoidance is practiced only in a few cultures.

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True

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True or False: Culture primarily functions at a subconscious level.

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False

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True or False: Most people share equal power in communication interactions.

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True

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True or False: The dialectical approach reminds us that the context may determine which value a person manifests at a given time.

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False

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True or False: The disempowered are unable to negotiate power.

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Social histories

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_____________ help us understand the everyday life experiences of the people in the past.

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absent history

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There were very strict laws that existed to forbid teaching slaves to read in the U.S., which kept many of their stories from being documented. This is an example of ____________.

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national history

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A body of knowledge based on past events that influenced the development of a country is called ___________________

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diaspora

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A massive migration, often caused by war or famine or persecution, which results in the dispersal of a cultural group, is called:

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Chile

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As a result of colonization by British, English is spoken in all of the following countries EXCEPT ___________.

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Management should not be involved in intergroup interactions and initiatives.

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According to the contact hypothesis, which of the following conditions would not facilitate successful intergroup contact and relations?

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family histories

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Which type of history is most likely to be passed down orally to each generation?

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They have had a significant role in determining what languages we speak.

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How have colonial histories influenced intercultural interactions?

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cultural group histories.

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The forced removal of the Cherokees from New Echota on what is called the "Trail of Tears" to Springfield, Illinois and then to Oklahoma is an example of

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give them a shared notion of who they are.

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National histories are important to members of particular nations because they

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material and political positions affect individuals' abilities to record history.

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It is important to understand the role of power in construction of historical accounts because

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inequalities in material positions contribute to stereotyping.

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Scholars Allport and Amir suggest that prejudice might be reduced if members of groups coming into contact are of equal status because

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helps us have better understanding of different cultural identities.

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Rewriting traditional histories to include hidden histories

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disparity of access to political participation.

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The U.S. government Indian schools case of forbidding Native American students to utilize their own languages is an example of ___________________.

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there were restrictions in the past that forbade women's access to public records.

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One reason it has been difficult to rewrite women's histories is that

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True

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True or False: Gays and lesbians were among the Holocaust victims during the World War II.

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True

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True or False: Ethnic and racial histories are included in the overarching category of nonmainstream histories.

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True

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True or False: Recovering various histories that have been suppressed, hidden or erased helps us examine the dominant cultural identity.

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False

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True or False: All people and cultural groups have equal opportunity to record their histories.

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False

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True or False: History is a collection of unbiased narratives of events.

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True

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True or False: Due to harsh socioeconomic conditions in the nineteenth century in Ireland, today there are more Irish Americans than there are Irish.

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True

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True or False: Contact is likely to reduce prejudice if there is an equal number of each group present when they interact.

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True

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True or False: It is possible for people today to "negotiate history" during interpersonal interactions.

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True

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True or False: Hispanics and/or Latinos/as. Share a common history of colonization by Spain.

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True

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True or False: Postcolonialism is a position that calls for the independence of colonialized states

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They feel that they have to choose one race or the other.

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During the development of their identity, biracial or multicultural children first realize that they are different from other children. What is the next stage?

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familial

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Which identity stresses the importance of emotional connectedness to and interdependence with others?

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People tend to hold certain prejudices that contradict the prejudices held by their friends or family.

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According to your textbook, which of the following is NOT true about prejudice?

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Discrimination always takes place on a person-to-person basis and never on an institutional, collective level.

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Which of the following statements is NOT true about discrimination?

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setting the norm for a society

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The term "normative" means:

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Chicana

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Communication scholar Dolores Tanno suggests that the self-identification label _________ promotes political and cultural assertiveness in representing her identity.

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Cultures are but one influence on a person's self-identity.

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Which is true concerning the influence of culture on the formation of our identities?

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ascription

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The process by which others attribute identities to an individual is

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They affirm the identity of the other that is most salient in a conversation.

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Which of the following describes how competent intercultural communicators negotiate identities in conversation?

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It suggests that race has complex social meanings.

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How does the concept of racial formation inform our understanding of racial identity?

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resistance and separatism

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Which stage in minority identity development is characterized by the rejection of dominant group values and norms?

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resistance

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In which stage of majority identity development do people begin to blame their own dominant group instead of the minority members as the source of racial problems?

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Privilege and White are always synonymous.

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Which of the following does NOT describe a characteristic of whiteness in the United States?

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class identity

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A sense of belonging to a group that shares similar economic, occupational or social status is

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are not just based on biological differences.

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The notions of masculinity and femininity

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True

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True or False: Members of minority groups tend to formulate a sense of identity earlier than majority group members.

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False

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Gender is the same as the biological sex of an individual.

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True

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True or False: Some of the identities ascribed to us are socially and politically determined.

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False

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True or False: We fully develop our identities in early childhood.

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True

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True of False: In different contexts, one of our multiple identities will be highlighted.

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False

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Most scholars today view the concept of race as describing biological differences between people.

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True

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True or False: "Global nomads" are children who grow up in many different cultural contexts.

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False

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All U.S. multicultural individuals prefer to be hyphenated Americans.

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False

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Regional identity is also known as national identity.

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False

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People in individualistic societies do not identify themselves in terms of groups they are part of.

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phonetics

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Which component of language is concerned with, cultural variations in sounds, such as the difference between the French and English "r"?

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to accommodate other speakers

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What is the primary reason that people code switch?

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lingusitics

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This study is one of the many ways to think about language, plus it provides us with a useful foundation for our exploration of language in intercultural communication.

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Most of the information is either in the physical context or internalized in the person

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Which is true about high-context communication?

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elaborate/understated

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Which of the communication style dimensions specifically refers to "the quantity of talk that people value"?

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direct

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Which communication style is preferred by most people in the United States?

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semantics

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The study of meaning is

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The message of a label varies by the social position of the speaker.

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Which statement best describes labels used to describe others?

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direct.

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This school of thought rejects the Sapir-Whorf assumption that the particular language we speak compels us to perceive the world in a particular way and prevents us from thinking in different ways.

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language acquisition.

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The process of learning language is known as

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language is a tool rather than a mirror of perception.

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The qualified relativist position suggests that

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metaphor.

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This is an expression where a word (or words) is used outside of its normal conventional meaning to express a similar concept.

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provides contextual information to help listeners interpret the message.

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Tonal coloring or the metamessage in a message

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nonassertive assimilation

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Which orientation has a co-cultural group adopted when they passively try to be accepted and fit in with the dominant group (e.g. by emphasizing commonalities, developing positive face, and censoring self )?

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assertive accommodation

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Which orientation has a co-cultural group adopted when they try to actively adapt to the dominant group (e.g. by communicating self, intragroup networking, using liaisons, and educating others)?

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True

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Code switching refers to the phenomenon of changing languages, dialects, or accents.

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True

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The source text is an original language text.

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False

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The critical approach to intercultural communication has generally focused on the contextual uses of linguistic codes.

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True

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The communication practice of "nagging" seems to be related to issues of gender, power and control.

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False

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Phonetics is the study of how meaning is constructed in relation to receivers.

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True

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The metamessage contextualizes how listeners are expected to receive and interpret verbal messages.

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False

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A direct communication style is one in which the verbal message is often designed to camouflage the speaker's true intentions, needs, wants, and desires.

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False

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The terms we use to refer to another cultural group have no influence on the way we perceive and feel about members of that cultural group.

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True

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Nondominant cultural groups that exist in a national culture are called co-cultural groups.

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False

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High levels of fluency in two languages ensure good interpretation skills.

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