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The document discusses culture and related terms like nation, race, and subculture. It examines six forces that maintain cultural differences like historical events, ecology, and technology. The importance of institutional networks and interpersonal communication patterns on cultural differences are analyzed. Examples of the interrelationship between cultural forces in Ireland, India, and European conquest of the Americas are provided.

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Handout Chapter 2

The document discusses culture and related terms like nation, race, and subculture. It examines six forces that maintain cultural differences like historical events, ecology, and technology. The importance of institutional networks and interpersonal communication patterns on cultural differences are analyzed. Examples of the interrelationship between cultural forces in Ireland, India, and European conquest of the Americas are provided.

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Handout 2

Review – Chapter 2
1. What is culture? Analyze the definition of culture?
- Beliefs:

- Values:

- Norms:

- Social practices:

2. Explain culture and related terms


 Nation:

 Race:

 Ethnic group:

 Subculture

 Co-culture

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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