LABLAB-DEMO - 11 com final.pptx oral com.
- 2. Definition and Nature of Intercultural Communication -Intercultural communication happens when individuals interact, negotiate, and create meanings while bringing in their varied cultural backgrounds.
- 3. Intercultural sensitivity - an individual's ability to develop emotion towards understanding and appreciating cultural differences that promotes appropriate and effective behavior in intercultural communication.
- 4. Ethnocentrism- believing that the way you're used to doing things is the only right way to do them, and that people or cultures that do things differently are wrong.
- 5. Examples of ethnocentrism include how we: Judge others based on their food preferences. Judge others based on their clothing styles. Judging others based on their language.
- 6. Ethnorelativism – the assumption that cultures can only be understood relative to one another and that particular behavior can only be understood within a cultural context.
- 7. The Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity 1: Denial 2: Defense 3: Minimization 4: Acceptance 5: Adaptation 6: Integration
- 8. Intercultural sensitivity - an individual's ability to develop emotion towards understanding and appreciating cultural differences that promotes appropriate and effective behavior in intercultural communication
- 10. 1. Denial Denial of cultural difference occurs when people fail to recognize distinctions among cultures or consider them to be irrelevant;
- 11. example: people in the denial stage will lump other cultures into vague homogenized categories, such as “foreigner,” “immigrant,” or “Asian,” or they will stereotype, demean, or dehumanize others by assuming that different cultural dispositions must be the result of deficiencies in character, intelligence, physical ability, work ethic, or other innate traits.
- 12. 2. Defense Defense against cultural difference occurs when people perceive other cultures in polarized, competitive, zero-sum, or us-against-them terms
- 13. Example: immigrants are taking our jobs, our traditional values are under assault, etc.
- 14. 3. Minimization Minimization of cultural difference occurs when people assume that their distinct cultural worldview is shared by others, when they perceive their culture’s values as fundamental or universal human values that apply to everyone, or when people obscure, disregard, or neglect the importance of cultural differences
- 15. Example: such as when organizational leaders respond—when confronted with examples of racial, ethnic, or gender bias in the workplace—with statements such as “We try to treat everyone equally” or “I don’t see color”
- 16. 4. Acceptance Acceptance of cultural difference occurs when people recognize that different beliefs and values are shaped by culture, that different patterns of behavior exist among cultures, and that other cultures have legitimate and worthwhile perspectives that should be respected and valued.
- 17. 5. Adaptation Adaptation to cultural difference occurs when people are able to adopt the perspective of another culture, when they can empathize intellectually and emotionally with the experiences of others, or when they can interact in relaxed, authentic, and appropriate ways with people from different cultures.
- 18. 6. Integration Integration of cultural difference occurs when someone’s identity or sense of self evolves to incorporate the values, beliefs, perspectives, and behaviors of other cultures in appropriate and authentic ways.
- 19. The students will be grouped into two. Each has to select a country and prepare a creative presentation featuring the country’s language, cultures, values and beliefs.
- 20. Thank You!