Intercultural Communication

1. peace imperative
2. economic imperative
3. technology imperative
4. demographic imperative
5.self- awareness imperative
6. Ethics imperative

1. Culture
2. Communication
3. Context
4. Power

1. learned
2. perceptions and values
3. involves feelings
4. expressed
5. Dynamic and heterogeneous
6. Shared

1. ethnocentrism
2. Discrimination
3. prejudice
4. stereotyping

Political histories- documented
intellectual- transmission and development of ideas
social- everyday occurrences

Occur at same time as other histories

• Personal level
• Passed orally

Hidden histories can be revealed through DNA testing

Based on past events and figures important to that nation

• Solidifies sense of nationhood
• U.S. students rarely learn about histories of other nations

• History of cultural group within a nation
• Includes where group originated, why ppl migrated, development of cultural traits

Only one way of looking at past

1. 1. Religious
2. 2. Gender
3. 3.Sexual orientation
4. 4. Racial and ethnic
5. 5. Diasporic- ways in which international culture groups were created through transnational migrations, slavery, religious crusades and other historical forces
6. 6. Colonial-
7. 7. Socioeconomic class

1. created through communication
2. created in spurts
3. multiple
4. influenced by society
5. dynamic
6. different ways in different cultures

1. excitement
2. culture shock
3. Adaptation

1. phonology
2. semantics
3. syntactics
4. pragmatic

1. give information- ex: assignment explanation
2. control other's behavior- ex: persuasive
3. communicate feelings- ex: "i love you"
4. Participating in rituals- ex: prayer
5. Execute plans- ex: meeting deligation

The language we speak determines our perception of reality

ex: native American languages- no possessive, Spanish formality