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Culture
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alternation | maintenance of two distinct cultural identities within a multicultural society |
| assimilation | absorption into the dominant culture |
| acculturation | the changes that groups and individuals undergo when they come into contact with another culture |
| Etic perspective | is cross-cultural and involves the search for commonalities or differences across cultures |
| Emic perspective | is culture specific and involves focusing on one cultural group and examining particular psychological aspects of that group |
| High context cultures | pay close attention to nonverbal signs to decode the real meaning behind words or actions |
| Low context cultures | interpret actions andwords literally |
| Multiculturalism | A situation where multiple cultures exist within a country and where the number of inhibitants representing those cultures is significant |
| pluralism | genral acceptance of the existences of many cultures and ethnic groups and their right to retain their cultural heritage while co-existing |
| Culture Shock | feeling of disorientation and anxiety that occurs as people from one culture encounter and adapt to the practices, rules and expectations of another culture |
| race | Categorising people based on their physical charactersitics |
| Culture | shared system of belief and understading |
| ethnicity | an identity that reflects the cultural experiences and feelings of a particular group |
| Cultural Competence | a person's effectiveness in communication and behaving appropriately with people from another culture |
| social identity | perception that we belong to a larger social group who possess similar attributes such as values, meanings and goals |
| Enculturation | the process of absorbing and internalising the rules of our culture |
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