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| The creation, maintenance, and transformation across generations of semi-shared patterns of meaning, sense-making, affiliation, action, and organization by groups. Note: This is a processed approach that emphasizes the performance of culture [enacting through behavior, embodying through feelings and embedding through meaning], rather than the things or beliefs that constitute culture. |
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| Broad categories under which humans commonly organize cultural knowledge, beliefs, values, and behavior (e.g., kinship, gender, economic exchange, etc.). |
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| The human tendency to negatively judge others’ cultures, beliefs, and values against one’s own, thereby limiting the ability to understand others, and often leading to ranking of cultures as superior or inferior. |
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| Occurs when the beliefs and practices of one culture (e.g. what is considered right or wrong, good or bad, true or false, etc.) may not agree with other cultures. Oftentimes, beliefs and differences are unique to their various cultures and based on the situation. |
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| Cross-Cultural Competence (3C): |
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| The ability to quickly and accurately comprehend, then appropriately and effectively act across all cultural environments without necessarily having prior exposure to a particular group, region, or language. |
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| The idea that all aspects of culture are connected to other aspects, although the relationships between aspects of culture vary from group to group. For example, gender affects kinship, which affects political organization, which affects economic systems. However, we cannot always predict someone’s economic decisions based on these factors. Recognizing that cultures are holistic systems falls in line with ―systems thinking,‖ an approach to problem solving that identifies the interdependence of different parts of a whole in order to understand how any particular problem affects and is affected by other parts of the system. Systems thinking helps people conceive of indirect (second and third order) effects of their actions. |
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| The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world. In other words, a collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group. |
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| OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act): |
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| the OODA Loop is a closed loop cycle that can help you gather information in a focused way (Observe); compare that information to previous knowledge and experience in order to interpret what you see (Orient); develop courses of action that take your observing and orienting into account, while also questioning your assumptions (Decide); and take action AND review the outcomes of your action in order to improve your performance next time (Act). |
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| Non-verbal elements of speech including tone, pitch, rate, and pauses. |
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| This is the extent to which the less powerful members of an organization and/or institution (i.e. family, unit, government, etc.) accept and expect that power is distributed unequally. |
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| ______ __________ are universal categories of human interaction, belief, behavior, and meaning. |
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| This domain refers to the ways people recognize relatives and the rights and status accorded to those relatives. |
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| Essentially, this domain pertains to how people interact with each other and includes the cultural practices, structures, beliefs, and values related to societal organization and governance. |
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| Political & Social Relations: |
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| This domain pertains to ways different cultures acknowledge biological differences between men and women (sex); the ways they assign roles, responsibilities, and status to masculine, feminine or other identities (gender); and their beliefs and values that support gender differences. |
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| This domain refers to a culture’s way of defining and relating to the sacred and supernatural. |
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| This domain pertains to the ways people allocate, produce, distribute, and consume goods and services. |
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| This domain covers the ways humans feed themselves and treat their bodies. |
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| This domain refers to the material resources to which cultures have access to or can procure on their own. Examples include raw materials, equipment (technology), knowledge, and skills that people use to transform the natural environment into items necessary for cultural and biological survival |
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| This domain refers to people’s expressions of beauty and style (aesthetics) as well as people’s methods of recreation. |
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| This domain pertains to the means and methods humans have for exchanging information. |
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| Language & Communication: |
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| This domain refers to the practices, structures, beliefs, and values that people of a culture apply to the concept of time and the use of space. This includes a culture’s interpretation of time (i.e. past, present, and future as well as the use of calendars, idioms, etc.), space (living space, personal space, physical measures, etc.), and communication (verbal pauses, standing distance, etc.). |
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| This domain pertains to a culture’s study and acknowledgement of the past (its own and others’) and includes history, scientific knowledge, first-hand experiences, testimonies by credible sources, as well as existing mythology. |
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| This domain refers to the means and methods for learning and increasing knowledge. Learning is a cognitive development process that occurs in formal or informal settings to include personal experiences, institutional academic programs, reading, and one-on-one/group interactions. |
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| the tendency to consider extended family affiliations and being a member of a larger group (ethnic, national, tribal, etc.) as very important throughout a person's life. |
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| Haptics Communication Style |
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| As one of four parts of non-verbal communication, communicates information through the use of touch. |
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| Proxemics Communication Style |
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| As one of four parts of non-verbal communication, communicates information through the use of distance (e.g. posture or space between people). |
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| Chronemics Communication Style |
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| As one of four parts of non-verbal communication, communicates information through the use of time. |
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| Kinesics Communication Style |
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| As one of four parts of non-verbal communication, communicates information through the use of movement (e.g. facial expressions and gestures). |
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| The American military exercises a _______ _________ communication style. |
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