Blog

Studies show that when prompted to discuss a scene, people in Japan discuss relationships between objects and people in the United States describe the largest object.

When viewed from the perspective of high- and low-context cultures, language often separates people.

Korean has special vocabularies for each sex, for different degrees of social status and degrees of intimacy, and for formal occasions.

The nation-state may be the most significant political creation of modern times.

Which of the following is one of the skill areas of intercultural communication competence identified by Chen (1990)?

Social class has been traditionally defined as a position in a society’s hierarchy based on income, education, occupation, or neighborhood.

The Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith decision has been used to limit religious expression in the United States.

People most likely to be highly prejudiced tend to be uncritical of higher authority, overgeneralize, and think in bipolar terms.

The term “coculture” is used to emphasize that we are all members of multiple groups.

East Asian countries tend to be high-context cultures.