Summary Intercultural Communication: Defining Culture and Communication.

SOURCES OF IDENTITY
● Religion - oldest
● Nation - modern political creation
● Class
● Gender
● race/skin color/ethnicity - biological race is not scientifically meaningful
● Civilization

CULTURE
- community/population self-sustaining
- that group’s thoughts, experiences, patterns of behavior, concepts, values, assumptions
about life
- symbols, rituals, values, heroes
- process of social transmission
- consciously identifying

subcultures
- exist within dominant cultures
- ethnicity
- sub/co culture, counter culture, subgroup and membership groups, reference groups,
microculture
- community

COMMUNICATION
culture and communication are intertwined

Confucianism
- ruler/state, husband/wife, father/son, older brother/younger brother, friend/friend
- harmony, virtue, hierarchy, selflessness
- particularism, intermediaries, reciprocity, in/out groups, overlap of personal/private
- infinite interpretive process
Western
- Berlo model of communication
- Speaker, speech, audience, purpose

media
- couriers/intermediaries
- telephone
- internet
- social media