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Psychology - Culture
Cross culture stuff
| Sense of community - McMillian and Charvis | - Membership - influence - shared emotional connection - integration +fulfillment of needs |
| Multiculturalism | Individuals from many cultures co-exist and live my one set of rules |
| Pluralism | Each group holds onto their own rules, traditions +rituals in the same location. |
| Cultural Norms | shared rules set by specific group to guide behavior |
| Issues with cultural diversity | cultural sensitivity/lack of awareness - work ethic/approach to task - decision making - communication |
| Implicit racism | Unconscious/concealed negative behaviors towards individuals of another race |
| Explicit racism | Intentional Negative behavior towards people of another race |
| Culture shock | Overwhelmed feeling due to difference in culture between new and old home |
| Assimilation | adopting new culture + losing cultural markers that made minority distinct from majority |
| Acculturation | keeping core values and ideas from original culture while abiding by rules of new one. |
| Intergroup contact | individuals engage with people from other groups - reducing fear of unfamiliarity |
| Equality | contact must take place where there is equality - no power difference/opportunity for dominance to occur |
| Sustained Contact | interaction is most likely to reduce prejudice if its long term |
| Superordinate goal | Shared goal that can only be achieved with both groups cooperation |
| Mutual Interdependence | Both groups must rely on each other to successfully complete task |