in multi-cultural communication, physical differences sometimes might result in stereotyping, prejudice or even discrimination.
noise is inevitable in human communication but we can eliminate it completely.
culture is innate as soon as a person is born.
effective communication should be interactive and transactional.
westerners emphasize the instrumental function of communication. therefore, westerners are generally more courteous and indirect in their mode of communication.
the process of communication has 10 components: sender, encoding, message,channel, receiver, decoding, response, feedback, noise and context.
in modern countries, our experience of culture has been profoundly affected by the development of mass media.
culture is compared as the “ hardware of our mind”, regulating and governing people’s behaviors.
four elements affect the quality of intercultural communication. they are conception ，verbal process, nonverbal process and contextual elements.
nervousness about a public speech is psychological noise in a communication process.
6.values are only tranitted by family members and usually passed down from generation to generation.
7. the belief that human nature is basically evil can be traced back to the teachings of christianity.
8. the orientation of man's mastery over nature is characteristic of the western approach.
9. the united states and mexico are typical future-oriented societies.
10. in social relationships that stress group values, people usually seek suggestions from their friends, family members and colleagues.
1. muslims do not eat pork, which is an example of ______values.
2. in china, as in other asian societies, humans are believed to be born good but ______.
3. people who believe that man is ______nature worship the natural world as god and tend to accept their fate.
4. in past-oriented societies, people usually attach great importance to ______and ______.
5. the being-in-becoming cultures stress the idea of ______and ______ of self.
if we all speak the same language, we can communicate happily with each other.
language and culture are closely related.
every word has a cultural connotation.
our social norms are determined and will never change.
people in some arabic countries use a lot of adjectives in their communications.
americans often communicate in a matter-of-fact way.
ranks in the armed forces like captain, colonel can be used as titles.
chinese hospitality toward the westerners is always greatly appreciated.
red is considered a festival color all over the world.
addressing forms like “miss mary”, “brown” by the chinese may be a form of cultural compromise.
nonverbal communication plays just a minor role in a typical communication process.
illustrators can be used independently of verbal messages.
monochronic time cultures attach more importance to schedules than to relationships.
future-oriented cultures tend to show a great deal of respect for elders.
even after you have put a marker for a piece of public territory, it is still subject to disagreement or invasion.
gestures have universal meaning because different cultures use them in the same way.
present-oriented people put their life in the hands of unseen forces such as fate or luck.
proxemics refers to how people use, structure, interpret and understand time.
americans are more polychronic than chinese.
arabs, with their strong religious influence, maintain greater personal distance than americans.