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Define in your own words the following concepts listed below and submit to assignment link. (Make sure to start at the top of the module, watch the videos before you begin this assignment, and READ the chapter designated for this module.
1. What did the video teach you about Culture? (Explain in detail your response)
2. Define the following words (refer to the Intercultural Communication chapter in the textbook). Use your own words.
What is Culture? Define Culture.
Ethnocentrism
Culture Shock
Adaptation
World View
Co-Culture
The following video discusses Cultural Values from Dr. Hofstede Gertz's perspective.
3. After the video, identify your Cultural values based on Dr. Gertz's dimensions.
4. Define each cultural value established in Dr. Gertz's model in your own words.
https://youtu.be/a9Z83I_g4Hw?si=GYcG8DpqtyDw9Etk
Bullied and Beautiful - TED TALKLinks to an external site.
What is culture?
We are also so different it is important to address that it doesn't just reflect on our nationalities or the colors of our skin or our gender. It is important to reflect on what it means to be culturally relevant. Our hope as a society is for all to be other-oriented and focused on others as much as people focus on themselves. Cultural Relativity is the absence of a universal standard to measure cultures, by which all cultural values and beliefs must be understood relative to their cultural context and not judged based on outside norms and values. So, within this Communication segment, you must connect with your Personal, Social, and Cultural Identities.
Cultural Identities: or based on socially constructed categories of teach us a way of being includes expectations for social behavior, since we are apart of them since birth, cultural identity or the least changeable of the three.
Social Identities: are the identities from involvement in social groups in which we are interpersonally committed. For example, we may derive aspects of our social identity from our families or community fans from a sports team. Social identities differ from personal identities because they are externally organized from group membership.
Personal Identities: include the components of self that are primarily intrapersonal and connected to our life experiences. For example, I consider myself a dog lover, and you may identify as a cat lover.
This part of ourselves becomes more apparent when we grow up and step out of the cultural norms of our family and friends. I experienced my first encounter with being different than my peers when I left home and moved into my college dormitory in San Diego, California. You would think that this general area is not too far from where I grew up in Los Angeles, California, but it can be. So, if I am in California, my experiences within my identity should be the same; well, they are not, especially when your family and friends are not there to protect you. I found myself in such a level of uncomfortableness walking into my new life in college. I was not the majority ethnically and looked different from everyone around me. I was also treated differently than my peers. I found myself uncomfortable in my skin and genuinely lost in my identity. It was like I was defined by how others perceived my ethnicity and my gender, not by my own identity. I found that people identified me a certain way, and I accepted it. However, I was so much more than the color of my skin and my femaleness. It still plagues me today when people meet me for the first time. Sometimes, people assume that I fit a specific identity; unfortunately, I morph into that person naturally. I guess it has just become comfortable doing so. I do not argue or try to defend myself anymore. I just let them think they know me. If they want to get to know me, they will ask.
As a society, we are becoming increasingly diverse with a more globalized approach to our interactions with others, mainly in California, not so much around the United States. We hope that through your growing knowledge of intercultural communication competency, change will take place for the better.
The Surprising Paradox of Intercultural Communication - TED TalkLinks to an external site.
What is IC?
Intercultural Communication (IC) is the communication practices between cultures with distinct cultural identities. If we can learn to step out of our culture and into another comfortably, that would be the epitome of Intercultural Competence. It will also allow us to understand other cultures' viewpoints, giving us a better sense of Cultural Relativity (Jones, 2024).
Do the following listed below and submit to assignment link few tabs forward:
Intercultural Communication.
1. What did the video teach you about Culture? (Explain in detail your response)
2. Define the following words (refer to Intercultural Comm. Ch. in textbook)
- What is Culture? Define Culture.
- Ethnocentrism
- Culture Shock
- Adaptation
- World View
- Co-Culture
The following video discusses Cultural Values from Dr. Hofstede Gertz perspective.
Dr. Hofstede GeertLinks to an external site.
3. After the video, identify your own Cultural values based on Dr. Gertz dimensions make sure you watch the several 10-minute video (s) on the website of each dimension before you analyze your cultural footprint.
4. Define each cultural value established in Dr. Gertz model.
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