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Stranger

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Someone whom you do not know and who is therefore unfamiliar to you

2
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Acquaintances

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Someone you know but only casually

3
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Friends

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Someone you know well, someone you like, and someone with whom you feel a close personal bond

4
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Romantic Partners

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5
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Family

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Kinship relationships that are characterized by large cultural variations

6
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U-Curve

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The initial intercultural contacts are characterized by a positive, almost euphoric, emotional response

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W-Curve

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The persons responses to her or his own culture upon return

8
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Assimilation

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Occurs when it is deemed relatively unimportant to maintain ones original cultural identity but it is important to establish and maintain relationships with other culture

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Re-entry Shock

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Occurs when the individual returns home and must readapt to the once taken-for-granted practices that can no longer be followed without question

10
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Integration

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When an individual or group retains its original cultural identity while seeking to maintain harmonious relationships with other cultures

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Separation

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If a culture does not want positive relationships with another culture and if it also wishes to retain its cultural characteristics

12
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Segregation

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If the separation occurs because the more politically and economically powerful culture does not want the intercultural contact, this is the result of forced separation

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Seclusion

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When a non dominant group chooses not to participate in the larger society in order to retain its own way of life

14
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Marginalization

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When individuals or groups neither retain their cultural heritage nor maintain positive contact with other cultural groups

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Accent

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Distinguishable marks of pronunciation

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Proxemics

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The study of how people differ in their use of personal space

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Chronemics

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The study of time- how people use it, structure it, interpret it, and understand its passage

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Kinesics

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The study of body movements, often inaccurately called body language

19
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Vocalists

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Non-speech sounds, such as belching, laughing, crying, and vocal filler sounds like uh, er, um, and uh-huh

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Monochronic Time

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Things should be done one at a time, and time is segmented into precise, small units.
Time is viewed as a commodity; it is scheduled managed, arranged.

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Polychronic Time

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Several things are being done at the same time

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Informal Time Systems

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The assumption cultures make about how time should be used or experienced

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Formal Time Systems

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The ways in which the members of a culture describe and comprehend units of time

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Technical Time Systems

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Precise, scientific measurements of time that are calculated in such units as nanoseconds

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Past-oriented Cultures

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Regard previous experiences and events as most important

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Present-oriented Cultures

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Regard current experiences as most important

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Future-oriented Cultures

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Believe that tomorrow- or some other moment in the future- is most important

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Affiliation

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What members of a culture use to interpret the degree of friendliness, liking, social warmth, or immediacy that is being communicated

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Activation

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The ways people react to the world around them

30
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Face

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Erving Goffman

The favorable social impression that a person wants others to have of him or her

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Control Face

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Individual requirements for freedom and personal authority

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Approval Face

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Individual requirements for affiliation and social contact

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Admiration Face

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Individual needs for displays of respect from others

34
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Facework

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The actions people take to deal with their own and others’ face needs

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Self-disclosure

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The human tendency to reveal personal information about oneself and to explain ones inner experiences and private thoughts

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Depth

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Self-disclosing information that refers to the degree of “personalness” about oneself that is revealed

37
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Valence

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Refers to whether the self-disclosure is positive or negative, and thus favorable or non-favorable

38
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Timing

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Refers to when the self-disclosure in new relationships is generally high because participants share information about themselves that the others do not know

39
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Target

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Refers to the person whom self-disclosing information is given

40
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Dominant Culture

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The cultural group that has primary access to institutional and economic power is often characterized

41
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Muted Group Theory

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Individuals who do belong to the dominant group are often silenced by lack of opportunities to express their experiences, perceptions, and worldviews

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Psychological Adaption

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Ones personal well being and good mental health while in the intercultural setting

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Sociocultural Adaption

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One’s competence in managing the everyday social interactions that occur in daily life

44
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When in Rome

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A fundamental issue confronting those who are in the midst of another culture is a decision about how they should change their behaviors to fit their beliefs, values, norms, and social practices of those with whom they interact

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Cultural Relativistic

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Suggests that every culture has its own set of values and that judgments can be made only within the context of the particular culture

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Universal Value

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1st- “The guiding principle of any universal code of intercultural communication, therefore should be to protect the worth and dignity of the human spirit”
2nd- World at peace

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Ethical Dilemmas

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1st- Summarized in the adage “When in Rome, do as the Romans do”
2nd- Asks if it is possible to judge a particular belief, value, norm, or social practice as morally responsible\
3rd- Relates to the consequences of intercultural contacts

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Ethical Communicators

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Whether it is ever acceptable to judge the people of a culture when their behaviors are based on radically different set of beliefs, values, norms, and social practices