When learning about intercultural communication, why is it just as important to get to know individuals from a different culture as it is to read about their culture?

a. It helps you realize the importance of multiculturalism, cultural relativism, and changing your own cultural practices to make others feel welcome.
b. It helps you understand that their cultural practices are just as valid as yours, since they work well for each individual.
c. It helps you not form stereotypes about them and their culture, since getting to know individuals helps you see them as culturally unique.
d. Cultures can change quickly due to intercultural contact via the internet, so anything written about them can quickly become outdated.


c. It helps you not form stereotypes about them and their culture, since getting to know individuals helps you see them as culturally unique.

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barrier between herself and her classmates.??By doing this, Ginger is hampering which aspect of delivery from occurring? A) variety B) extravagance C) stillness D) immediacy

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Which of the following accurately traces the formal logic of the text?

a. An attack against one NATO member is an attack against all NATO allies. The United States (one member) has suffered an attack. (Therefore) The attack on the United States is an attack against all NATO allies. b. The attack on the United States is an attack against all NATO allies. An attack against one NATO member is an attack against all NATO allies. (Therefore) The United States (one member) has suffered an attack. c. The United States (one member) has suffered an attack. An attack against one NATO member is an attack against all NATO allies. (Therefore) The attack on the United States is an attack against all NATO allies. d. An attack against one NATO member is an attack against all NATO allies. The United States is a member of NATO. (Therefore) The United States must have been attacked.

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According to Senge, this is a key element in creating and sustaining a learning organization

A) innovation B) investment C) coordination D) leadership

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When we state language organizes and classifies reality, we express the idea

A. We tend to group ideas by the words they are associated with. B. We tend to group words, concepts, shapes and images, for example, by their physical proximity and/or their similarity to one another. C. We tend to group words or concepts in a set order, such as alphabetical order. D. We tend to group shapes and images, as well as words, according to denotative and connotative meanings.

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