Provide two examples of how culture impacts nonverbal communication.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
- Students' examples will vary but should indicate their understanding that people from different cultures have different display rules. For example, collectivist cultures often consider direct eye contact overly forward, impolite, or inappropriate, while individualist cultures often consider direct eye contact a sign of honesty and forthrightness.
- Different cultures have different meanings for the same gesture. For example, the thumb and forefinger forming a circle means "OK"in most of the United States, but it means "money" in Japan, "zero" in some Mediterranean countries, and "I'll kill you" in Tunisia.
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word.
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a) value diversity b) value orientation. c) ethical abuses. d) organizational conundrums.
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A. improve her self-esteem B. be detrimental to her self-esteem C. increase her self-awareness D. help her self-disclose
The process of eliminating gatekeepers between artists and audiences is
A. disintermediation. B. platform agnostic publishing. C. print on demand. D. censorship.