Cultural identity and Cultural Biases

Cultural identity refers to one's sense of belonging to a particular culture or ethnic group.   Almost like how do I know I am an African American without taking my skin color into  Social identity develops as a consequence of memberships in particular groups within one's culture. Personal...

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Cultural Patterns and Communication: Taxonomies

High-context cultures - prefer to use high-context messages in which most of the meaning is either implied by the physical setting or presumed to be part of the individual internalized beliefs, values, norms, and social practices; very little is provided in the coded, explicit,...

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Verbal intercultural Communication

Definition of Verbal Codes     The Features of Language Verbal means "consisting ofwords." Therefore, a verbal code is a set of rules about the use of words in the creation of messages. Words can obviously be either spoken or written. Verbal codes, then, include both...

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Communication and intercultural Competence

The Melting Pot Metaphor- "is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" into a harmonious whole with a common culture. It is particularly used to describe the assimilation of immigrants to the United States; the melting-together metaphor...

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Culture and Intercultural Communication

"Culture is a learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, norms, and social practices, which affects the behaviors of a relatively large group of people." "Terms such as nation, race, and ethnic group are often used synonymously with the term culture. Subculture...

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Introduction to Intercultural Competence

"The world has changed dramatically from what it was even a generation ago. Across the globe and throughout the United Slates, there is now a heightened emphasis on culture. Similarly, there is a corresponding interplay of forces that both encourage and discourage accommodation and understanding among...

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Cultural Patterns and Communication Foundations

Shared beliefs, values, norms, and social practices that are stable over time and that lead to roughly similar behaviors across similar situations are known as Cultural Patterns. Ex: You know how every time an african American christian extended family gets together they have a long prayer by the family elder... (yep we all do that) A...

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