ICC Midterm

peace imperative

conflict & how its resolved

environmental imperative

weather doesn’t understand borders

economic imperative

consideration of our economic activities as intercultural interactions

demographic imperative

consideration of the people in our community

• immigrants, emigrant, migrant, refugee, asylum seeker, sateless person

technological imperative

connection, progress, division

self-awareness imperative

knowing your own cultural idenitity as you build relationships with others

ethical imperative

principles to help govern behaviors of individuals and groups

immigrants

makes consious effort to leave their country & choose another country to live in

emigrant

status after immigration

migrant

travels borders to work, but plans to return home once the job is finsihed

refugee

forcibly leaves home for saftey

asylum seeker

forcibly removed for saftey, seeks citizenship/saftey in a certain person

stateless person

cannot go through immigration because their original home is not considered a state

List of Cultural Imparatives

1. Peace Imperative

2. Enviornmental Imperative

3. Economic Imperative

4. Demographic Imperative

5. Technological Imperative

6. Self-awareness Imperative

7. Ethical Imperative

4 Building Blocks

1. Culture

2. Communication

3. Context

4. Power

Culture - Building Block #1

learned patterns of perception, values, & behaviors shared by a group of people

• learned, perception & values, feelings, shared, expressed as behaviors, constantly changing

Communication - Building Block #2

symbolic process where reality is produced, maintained, repaired, & transformed

• symbolic, a process consisting of: people, messages, channel & context, sharing & negotiating meaning, dynamic, doesn’t have to be intentional, reciver-oriented

Rleationship of culture and communication -

culture creates a worldview which influences how we communicate

• values & behaviors

value orientation

common understanding of human behavior/realtionship between humans

Barriers to Intercultural Communication

• bias

• ethnocentrism

• sterotypes

• prejudices

• discrimination

• privilege

6 Commponents of Identity

1. communication

2. created in spurts

3. multiple identities

4. influence

5. dynamic (constantly changing)

6. developed in different ways, based on culture

Multiple Types of Identities

• ethnic, encopsulated, gender, multicultural, national, personal, physical ability, racial, regional, religious, sexual

Different Types of Histories

• political, social, intellectual, family, national, cultural, religious, gender, sexual orientation, racial, ethnic, class, colonial

bias

perjudice agaisnt one thing, people/group, compared to another

ethnocentrism

orientations towards ones own ethnic group, belief ones own orientation is superior to others

stereotyping

widely held belief about a group of people

prejudice

attitude toward a cultural group based on little or no evidence

discrimination

behaviors resulting from steryotypes that cause people to be denied equal participation or rights based on cultural group membership

privilege

unearned special rights, benefits, & advantages granted to an individual or group based on their identity

demographics

characteristics of a population with respect to age, race, & gender

color-blind approach

looking beyond individuals ethnicities or race in an effort to focus on their common human nature

Intercultural Communication

the interaction between people from different cultural backgrounds

Context - Building Block #3

the physical, social, political, & historical structures in which communication occurs

Power - Building Block #4

• power is always present when we communicate even though it is not always evident

• every society has a social hierachy

micro agression

actions and/or statements that can be intentional or unintentional that show discrimination or bias

colonial histories

histories that legitimate international invasions

cultural group histories

history of a cultural group within a nation

• group origin, why the people migrated, how cultural traits came to be devloped/maintained

diasporic histories

histories of the ways which international cultural groups were created

• through transnational migrations, slavery, religious crusades, ext.

ethnic histories

histories of ethnic groups

family histories

body of knowledge shared by family members - the customs, ritual, & stories passed from one generation to another within a family

gender histories

histories of how cultural conventions of men & women are created, maintained, and/or altered

intellectual histories

written histories that focus on the development of ideas

national histories

bodies of knowledge based on past events that influenced a countries development

political histories

written histories that focus on political events

racial histories

histories of nonmainstream racial groups

religious histories

bodies on knowledge containing the items of faith & that faiths perscriptions for actions that have been important for a cultural group

sexual orientation histories

historical experiences of LGBTQ+

social histories

written histories that focus on everday life experiences of various groups in the past

socioeconomic class histories

bodies of knowledge relating to a groups relationship to social class & economic forces

culture

beliefs, customs, & traditions of a specific group of people

assimilable

understanding & navigating cultural differences in verbal & non-verbal communication to have effective interaction

cosmopolitans

perspective can enhance the quality of communication by promoting mutal respect, intercultural communication, & the ability to navigate complex golbal issues

globalization

creation of a world market in goods, services, labor, capital, & technology

heterogeneous

differences in a group, culture or population

maquiladoras

assembly plants/factories established on the US-Mexican border using mainly Mexican labor

melting pot metaphor

immigrants & cultural minorities will be assimilated into the US majority culture, losing their original cultures

self-reflexivity

process of learning to understand oneself & ones position in society

universalist position

individuals share a common humanity

embodied ethnocentrism

feeling comfortable & familiar in the spaces, behaviors, & actions of others in our own cultural surroundings

diasporic group

ethnic &/or national groups that are geographically dispersed throughout the worldd

cross-cultural training

training people to become familiar with other cultural norms & improve their interactions with people of different domestic & international cultures

postcolonialism

intellectual, political, & cultural movements that calls for independence of colonialized states & liberation from colonialist ways of thinking

masculinity & femininity

a cultural variability concerning the degree of being feminine and masculine

diaspora

massive migration often caused by war, famine, or persecution

power distance

extent to which members of a culture expect & accept that power will be equally orunequally shared