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Critical intercultural communication ✔Correct Answer--View of the world in terms of the
structures & contexts of power that surround us & impact our lives & experiences
-A perspective of icc w/ a specific focus on power relationships & how different social groups are
positioned in different way bc of the often unseen socio cultural structures, histories, & conditions
-Looks at power dynamics
-Look at ways in which we are both individuals and larger social identities/ groups

Critical intercultural communication cont ✔Correct Answer--Power is key
-Invisible dimensions of power constitutes & frame our intercultural communication

Contexts of power ✔Correct Answer-Economic
Governmental
Legal
Educational
Family
Media
Tourism

3 Characteristics of Critical intercultural communication ✔Correct Answer-1. Context of power is
based on an obvious &/or subtle hierarchy of dominant & subordinate power
2. Revolves around an ongoing struggle for power between dominant & subordinante parties
3. Both independent & dependent of each other

Intercultural Justice ✔Correct Answer-notion of taking action to help culturally different
communities, groups, or persons, whose identities & lives are negatively impacted by structures of
power

Social Justice ✔Correct Answer-ways to positively transform society by working toward
redistribution of advantages, disadvantages, benefits, & resources to those in need

ACT acronym ✔Correct Answer-awareness/ agency, critiquing, thoughtfully taking action

Power ✔Correct Answer--Constraining forces by which dominant structures, groups, & individuals
are able to gain in position over/ against the will of others
-It is also a productive force through which individuals & groups can resist & make more positive
social change
-"Power in every single one of our interactions"
-Power can be a productive force to create social change

What are ways we can minimize power relationships ✔Correct Answer-Be advocates

Equity vs equality ✔Correct Answer-Equity is giving everyone what they need to be successful.
Equality is treating everyone the same.
Before we can be equal we need equity

, Meritocracy ✔Correct Answer-myth, working hard doesn't always mean you will be successful,
different social groups have different access to power & tools
"pull yourself up by your bootstraps"

Emigration to US from 1820-1890 ✔Correct Answer-Top countries are Ireland, Uk, and Germany

Emigration to US from 1890-1909 ✔Correct Answer-Top countries are Italy, Russia

When did canada become a top emigrating country? ✔Correct Answer-1910

When did Mexico become a top emigrating country? ✔Correct Answer-1920 briefly, then
permanently in 1950

Power can be both a... ✔Correct Answer-controlling force that seeks to restrict the movements &
experiences of individuals & groups as well as an enabling force that individuals & groups can deploy
in dramatic or subtle form against larger structures

Characteristics of power ✔Correct Answer-Invisible & hidden
Material
Constraining
Enabling & creative

Power is invisible & hidden ✔Correct Answer-Ex: friendships are a hidden context (power
influences such as history or economics)
Similar socio-economic status
Unseen , invisible, & untraceable (macro-power influences)
More powerful when unseen
Social control gains potency through invisibility

Power is material ✔Correct Answer-Concrete, tangible consequences (economic implications)
Can determine survival
Social marginalization & economic exploitation
The degree of material power determines how you are able to live (often due to capitalism)

Power is constraining ✔Correct Answer-Internal oppression
Slaves experiences epistemic violence that undermines & devalues their own cultural experiences
governmental , legal, economic, institutions, & social forces
coercion , force, violence

Power is enabling & creative ✔Correct Answer-Challenge conditions
Power can be remade
Power of the law in a resistive way
Resistance: couple in the cage clip designed to critique the experiences such as Sara Baartman's

Culture ✔Correct Answer-Set of meanings that result from a social process of meaning-making
Product & process of individuals & groups coming together & making meaning around a way of life

Power-based perspective of culture ✔Correct Answer-Culture is a system of meanings &
representations created in an entangled field of forces through which differently positioned entities,
groups, and people compete for the power to define, represent, and even own a culture & its
resources

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