Question 1 The Globe Please check to see if the Image(s) you

Question 1

The Globe

Please check to see if the Image(s) you are being asked to review has a title. If there is a title, then I expect you to click on the title and read the corresponding document about the image and phrase your answer in a way that demonstrates your comprehension of this document as it relates to the theory in the text.

Go to the Globe. Locate Bosnia & Herzegovina (in Europe). Take a look at the photographs and find the link for the Mostar Bridge.

What impact does this bridge have on the intercultural communication of the people living on either side of it?

What section of the reading is applied to this example—define that section from the reading.

Summarize the link about the Mostar Bridge.

Question 2

Movie Clip

You have just viewed a scene from “The Last Samurai” starring Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise’s character (Nathan Algren) is a captain in the US army in 1876. He is asked to go to Japan and train Japanese soldiers to use modern weapons. He is captured in battle and lives in a small remote village in the mountains of Japan. Here he is exposed to the traditions of the samurai (such as loyalty to one’s master, self discipline and respectful, ethical behavior). After many months he embraces the culture of the samurai and adopts it as his own.

The scene you just viewed is at the end of the film. The Japanese soldiers won a battle using modern guns and cannons (provided by Americans). The samurai’s skill with swords was no match for these modern weapons.

The text discusses the ethics behind intercultural contact. As the world modernizes, cultural traditions may be left behind. What ethical dilemmas come into play in this situation?

Explain what the text says about Ethical dilemmas in Intercultural Communication.

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Question 3

Mexico

Monterrey is wealthier than many Mexican towns&Two of the characteristics of Mexico family values and willingness to work plus Monterrey’s relative closeness to the border have made a powerful force for development&.The family is an example of one of the vital differences between the United States and Mexico: Throughout the spectrum of commerce, work and family still mingle intimately.

Chief executives are linked by blood rather than professional background, and work is conducted on much more personal level. “You don’t get right down to business,” said an American who has worked for Mexican charitable organizations. “First you socialize, they get to know you, they ask about your family. After dinner they put a bottle of Chivas Regal, and you talk.

Relate this to what the text says about The Business Context.

Explain and/or Define what the text says about The Business Context—be specific and give examples.

Question 4

The Globe

Please check to see if the Image(s) you are being asked to review has a title. If there is a title, then I expect you to click on the title and read the corresponding document about the image and phrase your answer in a way that demonstrates your comprehension of this document as it relates to the theory in the text.

Go to The Globe. Locate the country of Botswana (in Africa). Take a look at the photograph for the San Tribe.

After reading the link, summarize the culture of these people.

Question 5

Lost Boys of Sudan

As in much of Africa, war is an old and seemingly intractable reality for the people of Sudan. In fact, civil war has largely defined the country in the world’s eyes ever since it gained independence in 1956 from Egypt and the United Kingdom. In the ensuing 40 years, rebels from the country’s southern provinces – populated by black who practice African Traditional Religion and Christianity – have fought periodically against a Sudanese government dominated by the country’s largely Arab, Muslim northern population. The war has cost an estimated 2 million lives from fighting and famine, as the government and an array of southern rebel faction’s battle back and forth across a devastated landscape, with no apparent end in sight. The United States and other countries have tried to help the orphaned children due to these wars.

Culture is a Set of Shared Interpretations (CH — Cultural Biases & Intercultural Contact). Based solely upon what you have viewed in the clip from “The Lost Boys of Sudan”, how would you describe the culture of Sudan?

Define Culture.

List and describe the components of culture in your answer.

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Question 6

Tribal Life in New Guinea

Are the Dani, Asmat and Koriwai Tribes’ individualistic or collective cultures?

Why? (CH – Theories Related to Intercultural Thinking)

Summarize the difference between individualism and collectivism.

Question 7

Tribal Life in New Guinea

Why do the women of the Dani Tribe cut part of their finger off?

Why do the men of the Asmat Tribe eat the brain of a defeated enemy?

Is this a belief, value, norm or social practice? Explain (CH – What is Culture?)

Define a belief, value or norm or social practice.

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Question 8

The Shower Essay

Would you consider beauty to be an element of nonverbal communication? (CH – Nonverbal Communication)

Explain your answer related to the chapter on nonverbal communication—be specific and relate it to this scenario.

Question 9

Business Communication Video

Why did an American automakers car not sell well in South America?

What two add campaigns failed due to their mis-translation of words?

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Question 10

Explain what the father means when he says, “Don’t ask me what I did; ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings.”

Had he “clipped her wings”—what would life had been like for her?

What was life like for her without “clipped wings”?

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