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The document discusses culture and related concepts. It defines culture as a learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, norms and social practices that influence group behavior. It distinguishes culture from related terms like nation, race, ethnicity. Forces that maintain cultural differences are discussed, including historical events, ecology, technology, biology, institutional networks, and communication patterns. Examples are provided to illustrate the interrelationship among cultural forces in different regions. Intercultural communication and related terms are also defined. The document poses self-study questions about views of culture, distinguishing cultural concepts, effects of technology, and influences on views of international relationships.

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Handout 2 - Chapter 2

The document discusses culture and related concepts. It defines culture as a learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, norms and social practices that influence group behavior. It distinguishes culture from related terms like nation, race, ethnicity. Forces that maintain cultural differences are discussed, including historical events, ecology, technology, biology, institutional networks, and communication patterns. Examples are provided to illustrate the interrelationship among cultural forces in different regions. Intercultural communication and related terms are also defined. The document poses self-study questions about views of culture, distinguishing cultural concepts, effects of technology, and influences on views of international relationships.

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Handout 2

Review – Chapter 2
1. What is culture? Analyze the definition of culture?
Cultural is a learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, norm and social
practices which affect the behaviors of a relatively large group of people.
- Beliefs: refer to the basic understanding of a group of people about what the world is like or what is

true of false.

- Values: refer to what a group of people defines as good and bad or what it regards as important.

- Norms: refer to rules for appropriate behavior, which provide the expectations of people have of one

another and of themselves

- Social practices: are the predictable behavior patterns that members of a cultural typically follow

nation culture: not equivalent terms. Most nations contain multiple cultures within their boundaries.

2. Explain culture and related terms


 Nation: is a political term referring to a government and a set of formal and legal mechanism that

regulate the political behavior of its people.

 Race: commonly refer to shared physical similarities (skin color, eye, shape,….) that mark different

group of people. In reality, race > political and society term, not a biological one/ invented to justify

economic and social distention,

 Ethnic group: is another term often used interchangeably with culture.

 Subculture: refer to racial and ethnic minority groups sharing same nation – state and some aspect

of the large culture

 Co-culture: used to avoid the implication of hierarchical relationship. The European American

culture and these other important culture groups that for the mosaic of the US

3. 6 Forces that maintain cultural differences?

 Some Examples – influence of historical events


- The Black Death in Europe
- Historical events in the U.S:

 How does ecology affect a culture’s formation and functioning?


- In cold-weather climates

- In warm-weather climates

- High-contact cultures - low-contact cultures

 Examples of technological changes that alter the balance of forces that maintain a culture?

 Biology and Race

 Explain the importance of some institutional networks in practicing a culture? Give examples
 Analyze the cause and effect relationship between interpersonal communication patterns and
cultural differences.

 Examples of the interrelationship among the cultural forces:


- In Ireland

- In India

- European conquest of the Americas

4. Intercultural Communication and Related Terms


- Definition of Intercultural Communication:

- Interethnic and Interracial Communication:


- Cross-cultural Communication:

- International Communication:

5. Questions for self-study


- What differences are there between the view that “people were born into a culture” versus
the opinion that “one becomes a member of a culture through a process of learning”?
- Make some important distinctions among the terms such as culture, nation, race, ethnic
group, sub-culture.
- What affects U.S. Americans’ views of their government’s relationships with other
countries?
- What are the effects of technology on a culture?

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