is sneakily describing American culture‚ their entire way of life including both material and symbolic elements‚ the whole time77. Miner is trying to teach us that ethnocentrism‚ using your own culture as a standard to evaluate another‚ leads to the belief that other cultures are inferior78. Instead‚ we should be using cultural relativism‚ understanding other cultures on their own terms78. He is trying to show us that the American way of life is not the “correct” way of living. I would explain Nacirema
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Intercultural Communication is Important For An Effective Communicator Qianya Zhuo Principle & Practice of Human Communication 02/19/2011 In order to be an effective communicator‚ it is important that people should have a solid understanding of intercultural communication. "The term ’intercultural communication ’ is often used to refer to the wide range of communication issues that inevitably arise within an organization composed of individuals from a variety of religious‚
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What is culture? * Culture is learned through experiences‚ observations‚ listening‚ talking‚ interacting with others‚ etc. * Our own cultural learning depends on the uniquely developed human capacity to use symbols‚ signs that have no necessary or natural connection to the things they stand for or signify. * Anthropologist Clifford Geertz defined culture as ideas based on cultural learning and symbols. * Sometimes culture is taught directly. (ex: parents tell their kids to say thank
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’High ’ Culture * 1.2 The Changing Concept of Culture * 1.2.1 The Origins of Culture * 1.3 Level of Abstraction * 1.4 The Artificiality of Cultural Categorization * 2 Subcultures & Countercultures * 3 Ethnocentrism & Cultural Relativism * 4 Theories of Culture * 4.1 The Function of Culture * 5 Cultural Change * 6 Cultural Sociology: Researching Culture * 7 References * 8 External links | Introduction[edit] The simplest way to think about culture is
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values‚ motivations‚ communication styles‚ attitudes and needs of their employees. I will discuss issues which relate to Cultural Diversity in the workplace as below: • outsourcing and off-shoring‚ • corporate culture and • Cultural relativism‚ ethnocentrism and stereotyping. This paper wills emphasis on how it affects the communication and business communication. Outsourcing involves transfer of the management or day to day implementation of an entire business function to an external service
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Alex Petrie Dr. Howell Anthropology 116 11/30/11 Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe. New York: Anchor Books‚ 1959. Number of 209. Things Fall Apart is the story of the people in an Ibo village that face destruction with the arrival of white missionaries from England. It begins by centering on Okonkwo‚ an ambitious and strong man who rose to great standing despite his shameful father‚ in order to give background to the customs of the area and the thoughts behind his actions. It then follows
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other people who are strange‚ odd‚ and different. Why do people do what they do. How do we know our descriptions are accurate? 2.) Cultural relativism vs ethnocentrism cultural relativism - the notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture ethnocentrism - judging other cultures from the perspective of one’s own cultures. The notion that one’s own culture is more beautiful‚ rational‚ and nearer
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Miner: American Vs. Nacirema Horace Miner expresses both irony and ridicule towards the American culture in his article “Body Ritual among the Nacirema”. He uses a sociological approach that is rather witty‚ using a fictitious North American group called the “Nacirema”. The views of this culture are much like our own‚ depicting the importance of societal status‚ wealth‚ health and appearance. Miner introduces the readers to a society living between Canada and Mexico‚ originated by a founder called
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culture beliefs. Moral relativity is where not everything may be acceptable by other societies universally. So we try and speak up to these cultures about their practices and hope to change their ways to make them morally acceptable. Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism means that we go to study a cultural and their languages but without imposing on their ways of their language in anyway or form. Just observing. Cultural Relativity is studying another culture from its point of view without imposing
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CHAPTER 2-Anthropology Physical Anthropology What is culture? (Margaret Mead) Characteristics of culture Cultural Anthropology- know one culture covered during the presentations Cultural Anthropology -Five schools of thought Cultural Relativism and Cultural Evolutionism- pg.28 Functional Theory- pg.28 - q. 1 on page 31 Cultural Materialism- pg. 29 q. 3 on page 31 Feminist Anthropology- pg. 30 q. 1 on page 31 Postmodernism -pg. 31 q. 2 on page 31 Primatology Natural selection-Darwin
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