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三.简答题
1. What are the characteristics of culture?
Learned, adaptive, pervasive, integrated, dynamic.
2. What is the nature of culture?
1. Culture is like an iceberg.
2. Culture is our software.
3. Culture is like the water a fish swims in.
4. Culture is the grammar of our behavior.
3. What are the characteristics of communication?
Communication
is
dynamic,
systematic,
symbolic,
irreversible,
transactional,
self-reflective and contextual.
4. What are the components of communication?
Message, sender, receiver, channel, noise and feedback
5. What are the barriers to effective intercultural communication?
(1) Assumptions of similarities
(2) Language differences
(3) Nonverbal misinterpretations
(4) Preconceptions and stereotypes
(5) Tendency to evaluate
(6) High anxiety or tension
6. What are the categories of nonverbal communication?
1.ocuelsics 2. olfactics 3. haptics
4. kinesics 5. chromatics 6. attire
7. What are the four modes of acculturation?
Assimilation
: is a process in which members of an ethnic group are absorbed into the
dominant culture, losing their culture in the process.
Integration
:
is a process of desiring a high level of interaction with the host culture
while maintaining identity with their native culture.
Separation and
segregation
:
Separation is
when individuals
prefer
low
levels of
interaction with the host culture and associated micro-cultural groups while desiring
a close connection with, and reaffirmation of, their native culture. If such separation
is initiated and enforced by the dominant society, this is called segregation
Marginalization
:
Marginalization occurs when the individual chooses not to identify
with his or her native culture or with the host culture.