U2LC: Cultural Diversity

CLEARLY identify which choice best answers the following questions. Either highlight your answer or clearly indicate the LETTER of your choice. This assignment has 10 questions and is worth 15 points.

1. At the core of is the principle that the future is unknown. It is the extent to which people within a culture are made nervous by situations which they perceive to be unstructured, unclear, or unpredictable.

a. tolerance for ambiguity

b. flexibility

c. the future

d. uncertainty avoidance

2. Face, in the context of cultures:

a. refers to how a culture is represented in the media.

b. both refers to how a culture is represented in the media and is a metaphor for the self-image you want others to see.

c. refers to your physical features.

d. is a metaphor for the self-image you want others to see.

3. The single most important cultural pattern in the United States is material acquisition.

a. True

b. False

4. The means by which you make sense of your physical and social world is referred to as:

a. Perception

b. Attitudes

c. Beliefs

d. Schemata

e. Awareness

5. Identify the correct time-order of these phenomena:

a. belief – value – attitude – behavior

b. behavior – value – belief – attitude

c. attitude – belief – value – behavior

d. value – behavior – belief – attitude

6. According to the textbook, dominant cultural patterns like material acquisition, equal opportunity, and individualism are associated with what country?

a. United States

b. China

c. Russia

d. Japan

7. According to the textbook, the process of manipulating how you want others to see you is referred to as ____.

a. self-image

b. manipulative self

c. face

d. facework

8. Long-term orientation includes many Asian cultures. They value:

a. Quick gratification of needs

b. Social order

c. Low priority on status

d. All of the above

9. Collectivist cultures value independence over interdependence.

a. True

b. False

10. When referring to power distance, high power distance expresses the powerful and powerless being set far apart.

a. True

b. False