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What is culture and how does it affect one's worldview and activities of everyday life? correct answers Culture: consists of shared values, practices, social norms, and worldviews associated with a particular cultural group---can be based on race, ethinicity, gender, sexual identity, ses, disibility, age, spirituality -culture affects a person's worldviews and activities through impacting someone's values, communication styles, beliefs, challenges, and lifetsyles -affects one's attitudes, behaviors, and feelings about money, work, interpersonal relationships, sense of self, expectations of life, political positions What are the stages of and experiences during culture shock? correct answers 1) Honeymoon stage: An initial reaction of enchantment, fascination, enthusiasm, admiration and cordial, friendly, superficial relationships with people in the new place 2) Crisis: Initial differences in language, concepts, values, familiar signs and symbols lead to feelings of inadequacy, frustration, anxiety and anger. 3) Recovery: The crisis is resolved by several methods, such that the person ends up learning the language and culture of the host country. 4) Adjustment: The person begins to work in and enjoy the new culture, although there may be occasional instances of anxiety and strain. The Racial/ Cultural Identity Development Model correct answers Stage 1—Conformity: acceptance of the belief of White superiority and minority inferiority. Minority individuals desire to assimilate with the dominant culture and escape from their own cultural heritage. They feel shameful for not being White and do not want to be associated with others of their own group. Low self-esteem and negative perceptions of other minority groups are common. Stage 2—Dissonance: gradually or suddenly via a traumatic event become aware of the inconsistence between the belief-held value at the conformity stage and experienced cultural reality. Individuals experience conflict between both self-depreciating and self-appreciating attitudes about themselves and group-depreciating and group-appreciating beliefs toward members of their own minority group;additionally, they question the stereotypes previously held about other minority groups. Stage 3—Resistance and immersion: tendency to adopt views and beliefs of own group completely and reject the dominant social and cultural values. Individuals endorse self-appreciating attitudes toward the self and group-appreciating beliefs toward others in the same group. Immersion in their own culture, ethnocentric feelings about other minority groups, and group-depreciating attitudes toward the dominant group are present at this stage. Stage 4—Introspection: a need for a positive self-definition and autonomy emerges, and intense negative emotion (e.g., anger toward the White society) subsides. Individuals reflect on the basis