| A | B |
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| Communication between and among individuals and groups from different cultural backgrounds. | intercultural communication |
| The shared, personal, and learned life experiences of a group of individuals who have common set of values, norms, and traditions. | Culture |
| Occurs when a person -either consciously or unconsciously- learns to identify eith a particular culture and culture's thinking, way of relating, and worldview. | enculturation |
| Occurs when a person learns, adapts to, and adopts the appropriate behaviors and rules of a host culture. | acculturation |
| The common understandings among people who are committed to coexisting. | community |
| A culture within a culture | co-culture |
| A conflict over cultural expectations and experiences. | culture clash |
| The concept that all societies, regardless of size, are connected in some way. The term also can be used to describe how communication technology ties the world into one political, economic, social, and cultural system. | global village |
| A practice in which a nation sends work and workers to a different country because doing so is cost efficient. | outsourcing |
| A theory that descirbes the four value dimensions (uncertainty avoidance, distribution of power, masculinity-femininity, individualism-collectivism) that offer information regarding the value differences in a particular culture. | cultural variability theory |
| A culture mind-set that indicates how tolerant (or intolerant) a culture is of uncertainty and change | uncertainty avoidance |
| How a culture percieves and distributes power | power distance |
| A culture that emphasizes characteristics stereotypically associated with masculine people, such as achievement, competitiveness, strength, and material success | masculine culture |
| A culture that emphasizescharacteristics stereotypically associated with feminine people, such as sexual equality, nurturance, quality of life, supporrtiveness, affection, and a compassion for the less fortunate. | feminine culture |
| A cultural mind-set that emphasizes self-concept and personal achievement and that prefers competition over cooperation, the individual over the group, and the private over the public. | individualism |
| A cultural mind-set that emphasizes the group and its norms, values, and beliefs over the self. | collectivism |
| The theory that meaning is derived from either the setting of the message or the words of a message and that cultures can vary in the extent to which message meaning is made explicit or implicit. | context orientation theory |
| A culture in which there is a high degree of similarity among members and in which the meaning of a message is drawn primarily from its context, such as one's surroundings, rather than from words. | high-context cultre |
| A culture in which there is a high degree of difference among members and in which the meaning of a message must be explixitly related, usually in words. | low-context culture |
| The process of judging another culture using the standards of one's own culture | ethnocentrism |
| A group to which a person feels he or she belongs. | in-group |
| A group to which a person feels he or she does not belong | out-group |
| The process whereby individuals, companies, and/or the media impose their way of thinking and behaving upon another culture. | cultural imperialism |
| The learned ability to accurately understand the experiences of people from diverse cultures and to convey that understanding responsively. | cultural empathy |
| The ability to avoid judging or condemning any practice in which any other culture engages. | cultural relativity |
