Professional Documents
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Guide
Communicating in a Multicultural
Society and World
Lessons of Chapter 2
Summary
Speaking of Difference
● gender
● age
● race
● ethnicity
● religion
● socioeconomics
● nationality
● generational identity
Co-Culture:
A group of persons who differ in
some ethnic or sociological way from
the parent culture.
What happened to the melting pot?
Melting Pot Philosophy:
View that different cultures should be assimilated into the
dominant culture.
Replaced By
Cultural Pluralism:
Allowing cultures to maintain differences while coexisting in
broader society.
How Technology Changed Our Lives
Culturally Confused:
Lacking an understanding of cultural difference.
Cultural Imperialism:
The expansion of dominion of one culture over another culture.
Ethnocentrism:
The tendency to see one’s own culture as superior to all others.
Cultural Relativism:
The acceptance of other cultural groups as equal in value to one’s
own.
Prejudice:
A positive or negative prejudgment.
Digital Divide:
The information gap.
Works Cited from:
Communication Works Eleventh Edition, pages 23-41. Teri
Kwal Gamble / Michael Gamble & Published By: The McGraw-
Hill Companies ©2013