Intercultural Final Ch.9-12

Which of the following suggestions should individualists do in a conflict with a collectivist?

Learn to apologize when part of the problem

Biracial children who identify with the parent from the dominant culture or religion, who may or may not publicly acknowledge the identity of their other parent.

Majority-group identifiers

Can you name the top Internet dating site? a. Eharmony.com b. Match.com c. Perfectmatch.com

Match.com (twenty-nine million subscribers)

Although Jon enjoys dating an outgroup member, he is considering breaking off the relationship because his family would disapprove. To which kind of commitment does this relate?

Structural

Taking into consideration external social and family reactions in deciding to either continue or terminate an intercultural-intimate relationship.

Structural commitment

A biracial individual who synchronizes the values, beliefs, and customs from both parents is practicing what form of identity?

Synthesizer

Biracial children who acknowledge the influence of both aspects of their parents' backgrounds and synchronize the diverse aspects of their parents' values into a coherent identity.

Synthesizers

Isaak and Inga must decide where to go on vacation, and each has a different location in mind. This situation is a conflict over ____________ resources.

Tangible

What type of resource is the job promotion?

Tangible

Conflict resources that may include money and other scarce (or perceived to be scarce) commodities.

Tangible resources

Identify which conflict style is reflected in each question:

a) I usually avoid open discussion of the conflict with the person. b) I "give and take" so a compromise can be reached. c) I'm generally firm in pursuing my side of the issue. d) I'm open to the other person's suggestions in resolving the problem. e) I often go along with the suggestions of the other person.

Kim's relationship values reflect

collectivism

A very personal or private relationship marked by warmth and familiarity.

Intimate relationship

How do you express affection for your close friends on Facebook? Think of one or two ways and then check out the top three ways:

1. Send them a wink ;) 2. Post pictures with one another 3. Add love applications

In most conflict situations, I try to work toward some compromise.

Agreement with this statement reflects a tendency toward a collectivistic conflict lens.

I do my best to soothe the other person's feelings and tend to the relationship.

Agreement with this statement reflects a tendency toward a high-context conflict style.

I attempt to stand firm in my conflict requests.

Agreement with this statement reflects a tendency toward a low-context conflict style.

In most conflict situations, I am inclined to win and feel good about myself.

Agreement with this statement reflects a tendency toward an individualistic conflict lens.

Involves dodging the conflict topic, party, or situation altogether. Includes denying the conflict exists and glossing over the topic.

Avoiding

During your team negotiation process, if one team member says, "I'm willing to give up Eduardo as my vote for first choice in exchange for letting him be our second choice." This statement reflects what technique for negotiating conflict over scarce resources?

Compensation

In negotiating conflict over scarce resources, the technique that includes offering exchanges or concessions for conflict issues that each conflict party values differently is called ________________.

Compensation

Offering exchanges or concessions for conflict issues each person values differently.

Compensation

Involves a give-and-take concession approach to reach a mid-point agreement. Includes fairness appeals, trade-off suggestions, and other short-term solutions.

Compromising

Scheduling mistakes were made at a restaurant and no food server wants to work the next lunchtime shift. Isaiah offers a solution: He offers to work the lunch shift in exchange for a portion of the other food servers' tips earned during the dinner shift. Isaiah is using which conflict style?

Compromising.

The practical issues that are external to individuals involved.

Content goals

Stage at which an interracial couple faces struggles in gaining approval from their families and friends and the strategies they come up with in dealing with such external pressures.

Coping

_______________ is (are) conflict(s) that come(s) from two opposing forces that exist at the same time.

Dialectical tensions

Acknowledging different cultural perspectives and dividing up the large "conflict" puzzle into different pieces, striving to reach a shared goal.

Differentiation

Jamir has a European American mother and an Arab American father. He claims that neither U.S. culture nor Arabic culture has an influence on him, and he resists identifying himself as a member of either racial or cultural group. Jamir is practicing which identify form?

Disaffiliate

Biracial children who identify with neither parent's cultural background.

Disaffiliates

See if you can identify which conflict style is reflected in each question:

Disagreement with this statement reflects a tendency away from an individualistic conflict lens.

The view that while individuals are socialized into a cultural group, their particular personality traits influence their conflict style tendencies.

Dispositional approach

If you were highly interested in getting your rankings approved by the team members and actively opposed their choices, you are most likely operating from which of the five types of conflict styles?

Dominating

Involves pushing for one's own position above others' conflict interest. Includes aggressive, defensive, and controlling tactics.

Dominating (or competitive/controlling)

Bored easily, so constant sensory stimulation is needed

Energized

Valuing group efforts at decision making, sharing of opinions

Engaged

Emphasizes the principles of right and wrong in accordance with a set of universally fixed standards regardless of cultural differences.

Ethical absolutism

Emphasizes the importance of deriving universal ethical guidelines by placing ethical judgments within the proper cultural context.

Ethical universalism

Comfortable borrowing identities

Evolved

Loyal to the Internet, their main connection to the world

Exclusive

Actively searching for alternative paths or creative solutions to enlarge the amount, type, or use of available resources for mutual gains.

Expansion

As a consumer-based identity, in search of the next big thing

Explorers

In her culture, Iduia has learned that during conflict, she should avoid eye contact and speak softly in order to avoid attacking the social images of others. These nonverbal and verbal strategies are called _____________ and she probably lives in a(an) ______________ culture.

Face-work; collectivistic.

A workplace that holds both collectivistic and small power distance values is one where managers have authority and power.

False

An interracial couple whose coping strategy involves "normalizing" tries to withdraw as a normal way to respond to racist insults.

False

Individuals who view their ethnic identities and traditions as very important aspects of their self-concept are more likely to date and/or marry out of their own groups.

False

The "Romeo and Juliet effect" occurs when families become overenthusiastic and romanticize an interracial couple's relationship.

False

The avoiding style of conflict describes a high degree of self-interest and a low degree of other-interest in a conflict.

False

The e.netizen identity is a combination of individualism and aspects of U.S. culture.

False

The interfaced e.netizen identity has very strong attachments to the Internet and is continuously connected to the Internet.

False

Minimal attachment to the Internet, which is viewed as a hobby or way to gather information

Fixated e.netizen

One end or pole of the spatial zone dialectic; the pull toward privacy

Fixated e.netizen

During their conflict over where to go on vacation, Ian wants to be respected for his knowledge about traveling. This is a description of which kind of conflict goal?

Identity-based

Face-saving and face-honoring issues in a conflict episode.

Identity-based goals

Ignacio's workplace values personal freedom. Employees expect equal treatment and they even may ask for managers to justify their decisions. According to the intercultural workplace conflict grid, Ignacio's workplace takes the ___________ approach.

Impartial

______________ means creating a favorable assessment by others so that others can either be attracted to them or at least find them credible.

Impression formation

Inez was born and raised in Australia. In this individualist culture, there is a tendency for individuals to view conflict using a(n) _____________ conflict lens.

Independent-self

As a collectivist, Jafaar's relationship orientation is most likely to include which of the following?

Ingroup relationship pressures

Conflict resources that may include deeply felt desires or emotional needs.

Intangible resources

Involves a high concern for both self-interest and also the other person's interest. Uses non-evaluative descriptive messages and qualifying statements.

Integrating (or collaborative)

Antagonistic friction or disagreement between two romantic partners due, in part, to cultural or ethnic group membership differences.

Intercultural-intimate conflict

Collectivists tend to view conflict using a(n) _________ conflict lens.

Interdependent-self

The cultivation of an ethical way of thinking in our everyday lives that transcends any particular ideological position.

Meta-ethics

Jordan lives in the United States and has a white father and a Filipino mother. She identifies with her mother's heritage and minimizes her father's heritage. Which identity form is Sonya practicing?

Minority-group identifier

Biracial children who identify with the minority parent.

Minority-group identifiers

Ilona, who was raised in a collectivist culture, needs to work on what communication tool in order to be more effective in a conflict with an individualist?

More active sharing of her voice or opinions.

Lyle spends time on the Internet with chatroom friends while at the same time he is using the Internet to listen to music and to pay his bills. He is experiencing which aspect of temporal zone dialectics?

Multitrack focus

If one of your team members said, "I don't care that much, let's go with your choices," which of the five types of conflict styles would he or she using?

Obliging

Involves high concern of others' conflict interest above and beyond one's own conflict position. Includes smoothing over a conflict or giving in to a partner's wishes.

Obliging (or accommodating)

Joanna is an individualist, and so she considers whether to continue her relationship with a romantic partner based on subjective emotional feelings and experiences. This reflects what kind of commitment?

Personal commitment

Jael and Joachim are in an interracial dating relationship and have just become "awakened" to the fact that their family and friends are uncomfortable with interracial dating. In which stage of interracial-intimate relationship development is this couple?

Racial awareness

Stage at which members of an interracial couple gradually become aware of each other's and society's views on interracial relationships.

Racial awareness

How individuals define a particular relationship, or would like to define it in that situation.

Relational conflict goals

Stage in which an interracial couple has continuous hard work in dealing with new challenges such as having children, moving, and meeting new social circles.

Relationship maintenance

The view that stresses the importance of conflict topic and conflict situation in shaping what conflict styles will be used.

Situational approach

Strong attachment to the Internet and having a solid e.netizen identity

Solitude pole

At the same time, individuals experience the solitude pole and the tribal pole

Spatial zone dialectics

Lakota really enjoys feeling like he is alone at the same time he is communicating with individuals across the globe via his computer. This experiencing of opposite tensions reflects what aspect of the e.netizen identity?

Spatial zone dialectics

Can you name the three top-grossing movies of all time?

This is due to the rapidly changing nature of pop culture, of which movies are a part.

One end or pole of the spatial zone dialectic; the need for shared communal space

Tribal pole

Cultural empathy involves the ability of participants to understand accurately the experiences of others from diverse cultures.

True

In the United States, the Black mode of conflict is high-keyed (energetic, nonverbally animated, and emotionally expressive).

True

Individualists are more likely to use a low-context verbal approach in initiating, maintaining, and ending a close relationship.

True

The "blind" panel in the Johari Window includes information about myself that I don't know and that others do know about me.

True

The e.net identity is partially shaped by popular culture.

True

U.S. culture tends to view obliging and avoiding styles negatively, as indifferent to or fleeing from the conflict.

True

The _______________ e.net philosophy means that e.net individuals can fuse enjoyment of the here-and-now moment with doing other task related activities. The correct answer was: d. "being-in-doing".

being-in-doing

A hallmark of intimacy is ______________ self-disclosure, which is an individual's willingness to reveal exclusive private information to a significant other.

deep-layered

The aspect of ____________ is reflected by the fact that Karen has access to the Internet because she is a member of the U.S. middle-class, but Kiyo, who is from Burma, does not.

privileged space

The ___________ identity is a composite identity that is shaped by technology, by popular culture, and by mass consumption.

e.netizen

Kim's communication styles reflect

high-context emotional expressions

The similarity-attraction hypothesis states that if the amount of perceived similarity between potential romantic partners increases, their interpersonal attraction will ___________.

increase

Ken's relationship values reflect

individualism

Ken's communication styles reflect

low-context emotional expressions.

Let's say that eighteen years have passed. Kevin grew up speaking only English and has a strong identification with the larger U.S. culture, while he knows nothing about his Chinese ethnic background; his identity reflects the concept of

minority-group identifier

Ken's relationship expectations emphasize

personal commitment

The aspect of ____________ is reflected by the fact that Luigi, who lives in a remote village in the Italian Alps, carries a mobile cellular phone that uses the latest hip-hop music for ring tones.

pop culture

For the e.net'er, spatial zone dialectics describes the tension between the __________ pole and the ___________ pole.

solitude; tribal

Kim's relationship expectations emphasize

structural commitment.

Let's say that eighteen years have passed. Kevin grew up speaking both English and Chinese fluently, and he has a strong identification with both the American and Chinese cultures; his identity reflects the concept of

synthesizer