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Intro to Communication_Chapter 8

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