People who don’t grow up with strong traditions that give them a sense of community sometimes adopt a tradition from another culture (e.g., music, dance, or martial arts) and find others who are interested in the same foreign tradition to create a new community. What are the other cultural effects of this, beyond creating community?

What will be an ideal response?


Answers may vary but should mention these people are creating a co-culture with its own group norms and behaviors and creating a social identity for themselves via membership in a co-culture.

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a. giving the audience more reasons to support the position you share with them. b. making jokes that demonstrate the absurdity of the opposition's arguments. c. building up audience resistance to counterpersuasion by showing them how to refute opposing arguments. d. attacking the opposition's credibility. e. coming up with clever, demeaning slogans to characterize the opposition.

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Examples of ________ roles are giving and seeking information in order to help a group move

toward its goals. Fill in the blanks with correct word

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The written, spoken, and unspoken elements of communication to which we assign meaning are called _____

Fill in the blanks with correct word

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"Um," "ah," and "you know" are examples of vocalized pauses

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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