Walmart ran afoul of Canadian and Mexican consumers because of ________
A) cultural insensitivity
B) a failure to observe local language laws
C) low wages
D) A and B
E) All of the above.
Answer: D
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Imagine that you are listening to a speech about AIDS and HIV. One of the speaker?s main
points describes ways to respond to the devastating news that you or someone in your family is HIV Negative. You are confused by this, because you know that HIV Negative means that someone isn?t infected with the virus that leads to AIDS. What is happening in this situation? A) The speaker obviously plagiarized the speech, because he/she doesn?t know the correct terms. B) The channel of the message is faulty, or else the correct term would be sent and received. C) The speaker?s encoding and the listener?s decoding are interfering with communication. D) External noise is keeping the message from being sent and received accurately.
The tendency to view one’s own group as the standard against which all other groups should be measured or judged is called _____
a. stereotyping b. labeling c. ethnocentrism d. prejudice
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A. size B. name C. beauty D. behavior