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CST_110
Intro to Communication_Chapter 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Diaspora | Group Of immigrants sojourners, slaves or strangers living in new lands while retaining strong attachments to their homelands. |
| Mediation | Peaceful third-party intervention |
| Intercultural communication | Communication that occurs in interactions between people who are culturally different |
| Culture | Learned patterns of perceptions, values and behaviors shared by a group of people |
| Heterogeneous | Diverse |
| Border dwellers | People who live between cultures and often experience contradictory cultural patterns |
| Voluntary short-term travelers | People who are border dwellers by choice and for a limited time such as study-abroad students or corporate personnel |
| Voluntary long-term travelers | People who are border dwellers by choice and for an extended time, such as immigrants |
| Involuntary short-term travelers | People who are border dwellers not by choice and only for a limited time, such as refugees forced to move |
| Involuntary long-term travelers | People who are border dwellers permanently but not by choice such as those who relocate to escape war |
| Culture shock | A feeling of disorientation and discomfort due to the lack of familiar environmental cues |
| Reverse culture shock/ reentry shop | Culture shock experienced by travelers upon returning to their home country |
| Encapsulated marginal people | People who feel disintegrated by having to shift cultures |
| Constructive marginal people | People who thrive in a border-dweller life, while recognizing its tremendous challenges |
| Cultural values | Beliefs that are so central to a cultural group that they are never questioned |
| Individualist orientation | A value orientation that respects the autonomy and independence of individuals |
| Collectivistic orientation | A value orientation that stresses the needs of a group |
| Preferred personality | A value orientation that expresses whether it is more important for a person to "do" or to "be" |
| View of human nature | A value orientation that expresses whether humans are fundamentally good evil or a mixture |
| Human-nature value orientation | The perceived relationship between humans and nature |
| Power distance | A value orientation that refers to the extent to which less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a culture expect and accept and unequal distribution of power |
| Long-term versus short-term orientation | The dimension of a society's value orientation that reflects its attitude toward virtue or truth |
| Short-term orientation | A value orientation that stresses the importance of possessing one fundamental truth |
| Monotheistic | Belief in one god |
| Long-term orientation | A value orientation in which people stress the importance of virtue |
| Polytheistic | Belief in more than one god |
| Dialect approach | Recognizes that things need not be perceived as "either/or" , but may be seen as "both/and" |
| Dichotomous thinking | Thinking which things are perceived as "either/or" -for example, "good or bad," "big or small," "right or wrong" |
| Cocultural group | A significant minority group within a dominant majority that does not share dominant group values or communication patterns |
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