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| Imperatives for Intercultural Competence (5) |
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-demographic
-technological
-economic
-peace
-interpersonal |
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The US and the rest of the world is experiencing a lot of cultural mixing
-European culture is fastly becoming a minority
-People are also becoming more accepting of other minorities |
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| Imperatives for Intercultural Competence (5) |
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-demographic
-technological
-economic
-peace
-interpersonal |
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United states and the rest of the world (middle east, asia, europe, africa, south america) is going through an intensive culture mixing around the world.
-Europeans are becoming a minority in US
-people are becoming more accpeting of minorites
-mostly affecting k-12, universities, and business settings |
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| minorities in America outnumber the majority of European Americans |
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| Reason for increase in minorities |
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| Consequences of the browning of America |
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| -a lot of students first language is not english |
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| "typical" foregin born resident in US |
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| has lived in the United States for more than twenty years |
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| Marshall McLuhan coined the term to describe the consequences of the mass media's ability to bring events fromt he far reaches of the globe into people's homes thus shrinking the world. Is an image used to describe the world wide web of interonncetions that modern technologies have created. |
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| Technological Imperative for Intercultural Competence |
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-modern transportation systems contribute to the creation of the global village and link people that are far from each other together
-technolgy facilitates human interactions across the globe and in real time |
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| the integration of capital, technology, and info across national borders-is creating a global market place |
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| Economic Imperative for Intercultural Competence |
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-international tourism is one of the growth industries that is burgeoning worldwide and us is benefiting from it greatly
-US economy is characterized by interdependence with other countries |
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| Peace Imperative for Intercultural Competence |
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-in 2009 there were over six thousand hate crimes
- the need to understand and appreciate others who are different is vital |
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| The interpersonal Imperative for Intercultural Competence |
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-because of global village you're daily life with greatly effect how you're intercultural competence is
-there are consquencecs |
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| is a symbolic interpretive transactional contextual process which people create shared meanings |
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| is a word action or object that stands for or represents a unit of meaning |
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| feeling that a person experiences and might want to communicate to others (ex sensation resulting from rooms temp, thoughts about a teacher in a particular course, feelings of happiness or anger because of what someone said) |
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| package of symbols used to create a shared meaning. Meanings are only understood in a message. Use symbols to create this message. |
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| Communication is an interpretative process... |
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| -whenever people communicate they must interpret the symbolic behaviors of others and assign significance to some of those behaviors in order to create a meaniful account of the others actions |
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Interpretative
two outcomes of communication |
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-understanding: without this communication never occurred
-agreement: not only do they understand what each other said but they agree to it |
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| Communication is transactional |
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this implies that all participants in the communication process work together to create and sustain the meanings that develop
-a transactional view holds that communicators are simultaneously sending and receiving messages at every instant |
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| earliest view of the communication process was... |
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| actional---> held that communication was a linear one way flow of idea and info. Did not include the receivers of the message. |
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| Interactional views of communication |
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| The goal is still to influence the sender to understand them so it is not good. It does include that there will be feedback about the message is percieved though. |
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| Communication is contextual |
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| communication takes place within a setting or situation |
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Contexts
1) physical setting
2) social setting
3)Interpersonal settings |
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1) actual location for interaction
2) shared expectations and behaviors people expect a certain social events
3)expectations people have of others depending on the different relationships between them |
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| process that is ever changing (dynamic) not static (never changing) |
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| Four characteristics of Interpersonal Communication |
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1) occurs in a small number of people, social bonds are more likely in interpersonal
2) people interacting exclusively with one another unlike public speaking
3) adapted to specific others (so someone adapts their way of communicating depending on the person)
-immediate interpretations unlike books or newspapers interpretations of messages can occur simultaneously with creation |
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| created by Edward T Hall. Basically says that culture is like an iceberg. 10% is visible the rest 90% is hidden under water. The 10% is the only part we understand of a culture, but they have a much more important part that is hidden. The things that are visible are like the cultures food or music and behavioral differences The hidden part would be the deeply held beliefs values and norms. |
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| There is no simple prescription that.. |
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| can gaurentee competent interpersonal communication among people from different cultures |
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| differences among people becomes... |
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