Multicultural Exam 1Questions And Well Detailed 100% Explained Answers.

More than half of those who are multiracial were how old? - correct answers Under 20 Growth in Latinos is fueled by? - correct answers Birth In 2010, how many people identified with more than one racial group? An increase of? - correct answers9 million, 32% increase from the last decade What is responsible for the overall population shift in the US? - correct answers Immigration In 2011, how much of the population was immigrants? - correct answers13% How many people speak a language other than English at home? - correct answers1 in 5 Global Village - correct answers Term used to describe the consequences of the media's ability to bring events from the far reaches of the globe into people's personal lives, thus shrinking the world. -Ex. social media, transportation In the past 15 years, the number of internet users has increased by? - correct answers741% What is our relationship with other cultures as a society? - correct answers We are increasingly interdependent on other cultures in the global marketplace Globalization - correct answers The integration of capital, technology, and information across national borders, which is creating a worldwide marketplace -What happens in one country can have an effect on another (stock market, weather disasters) International Tourism - correct answers One of the "growth industries" that the US benefited from substantially. This injects new money into the US economy U.S. higher education has how many international students? - correct answers4.5 million How many registered hate groups are there in the US? - correct answersAt least 1000 What is considered the single most important global communication issue that humans face? - correct answersCulture How many hate crimes are committed annually? Are they increasing or decreasing? - correct answers6,000, increasing Social Practices - correct answersThe predictable behavior patterns that members of a culture typically follow What is the Self-Awareness imperative? - correct answersWho we are,where we are, and what others presume about us as we interact with them -Constitutes our "standpoint" in the interaction Your quality of life is dependent on? - correct answersCommunicating with those in other cultures Communication Definition - correct answersA symbolic, interpretive, transactional, contextual process in which people create shared meanings. Communication: Symbol - correct answersA word, action, or object that stands for or represents a unit of meaning Communication: Meaning - correct answersA perception, thought, or feeling that a person experiences and might want to communicate to others Communication: Message - correct answersThe "package" of symbols used to create shared meanings Communication: Emblems - correct answersNonverbal behaviors that have a direct verbal counterpart -Ex: thumbs up, middle finger Communicators are simultaneously doing what? - correct answersSending and receiving messages at every instant that they are involved in conversations. Agreement - correct answersWhen each participant not only understands the other but also holds a view that is similar Context - correct answersThe setting or situation within which communication takes place -The place where people meet, the local purpose of being together, and the nature of the relationship. What type of communication is better? - correct answersCommunication can be static but dynamic communication is better because it allows language to change and evolve What is culture? - correct answersA learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, norms, and social practices, which affect the behaviors of a relatively large group of people Is culture something you are born with or something that is learned? - correct answersLearned Culture: Beliefs - correct answersRefer to the basic understanding of a group of people about what the world is like or what is true or false Culture: Values - correct answersRefer to what a group of people defines as good and bad or what it regards as important Culture: Norms - correct answersRefer to rules for appropriate behavior, which provide the expectations people have of one another and of themselves Culture: Social Practices - correct answersThe predictable behavior patterns that members of a culture typically follow. Nation - correct answersA political term referring to a government and a set of formal and legal mechanisms that regulate the political behavior of its people Race: What most people think it is - correct answersA term that is commonly, but incorrectly, used to refer to a genetic or biologically-based similarity that distinguishes one group of people from another. Race: What it actually is - correct answersPredominantly a political, legal, and social distinction -More encompassing term than culture or nation Racial Distinctions form the base for? - correct answersPrejudicial communication that can become a major obstacle for intercultural communication Ethnicity - correct answersRefers to a wide variety of groups that share a common language, religious traditions, nation-state, cultural system, and historical origins (people who share language and traditions) Subculture and coculture are? - correct answersThe same thing, subculture used to refer to cultures that exist in the middle of a larger culture, and coculture used in place of subculture to hide the implication of a hierarchical relationship When trying to understand intercultural situations, what questions can you ask? - correct answers1. What differences among groups of people constitute cultural differences? 2. How extensive are those differences? 3. How does extended communication change the effects of cultural differences? Melting Pot Metaphor - correct answers Implies that the U.S. is like a huge crucible, a container that can withstand extremely high temperatures and can therefore be used to melt, mix, and ultimately fuse together metals or other substances (in this case the "substances" are people of various cultures). Melting Pot Metaphor: Origin - correct answers-It was created at a time when great furnaces were used to forge steel and helped the U.S. become an industrial power -It is the oldest metaphor. Melting Pot Metaphor: Flaws - correct answers The metaphor has never been an accurate description and such blending and loss of cultural identity has never really existed Tributary Metaphor - correct answers Implies that the U.S. is like a huge cultural watershed, providing numerous paths in which many tributary cultures flow Rainbow Metaphor - correct answers These colors represent the wide variety of cultures that comprise the United States. -Thus a rainbow is often invoked as a metaphor of people from disparate cultures who enjoy living together in peaceful harmony Rainbow Metaphor: Flaws - correct answers-It suggests that U.S. cultures should be separate, unequal, and hierarchically ordered -The colors in a rainbow have fixed and unchanging positions -Though the rainbow metaphor has desirable qualities, it also could suggest an undesirable separation of U.S. cultures Tapestry Metaphor - correct answers Suggests that the U.S. is like a decorative cloth made up of different threads, colors, and patterns -Each thread, which can differ according to thickness, color and the like, is akin to a person, and groupings of similar threads are analogous to culture Tapestry Metaphor: Flaws - correct answers Not a completely accurate way to describe the cultures in the U.S, as once a tapestry is made it is finished and U.S. culture is always changing Garden Salad Metaphor - correct answersImplies that the U.S. population is like a salad that is made up of distinct ingredients that are continuously being tossed. -Suggests that the U.S. is made up of an array of distinct cultures that provide a unique combination of tints and textures that blend into a unique mixture Garden Salad Metaphor: Flaws - correct answers1. It suggests an absence of firmness and stability; it is always in a state of flux 2. Cultural groups in the U.S. are not always moving, mixing, and mingling with the speed and alacrity (eagerness) that this metaphor suggests. Hispanic American - correct answers Hispanic derives from the dominant influences of Spain and the Spanish language, but many shy away from this term because it tends to homogenize all groups of people who have Spanish surnames or use the Spanish language. Chicano/a American - correct answers Refers to the multiple-heritage experience of Mexicans in the U.S. and speaks to apolitical and social consciousness of the Mexican American. Mexican/Cuban American - correct answers Preferred by those who wish to acknowledge their cultural roots in a particular national heritage while simultaneously emphasizing their pride in being U.S.Americans The problem with using the term "Native American" - correct answers Many tribal nations are categorized under the umbrella term Native American, but more specific terms such as Chippewa, Sioux, Navajo, Choctaw, Cherokee, or Inuit are more accurate and more preferred Asian American - correct answers This term groups markedly different cultures together as one (such as Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Malaysian Americans, Korean Americans, and other cultures) because they geographically reside in the part of the world loosely referred to as Asia European American - correct answers Obscures differences among those whose heritage may be English, French, Italian or German. Which culture values birth order? - correct answers Asian Americans Which culture values holistic treatments? - correct answers Native Americans