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Intercultural Spr2006 Sess21

Culture, Relationships, and Structuration

IC In Context, c. 10; Readings In IC, c. 30, 31, & 33

Dialectics of Intercultural Relationships
- Difference/Similarity
- Cultural/Individual
- Privilege/Disadvantage
- Personal/Contextual
- Static/Dynamic
Intercultural Relationships
- Benefits: Relational Learning
  - Knowledge of the world
  - Breaking Stereotypes
- Acquiring new skills
- Challenges
  - Negative Stereotypes
  - Negative Consequences
  - Care and feeding
    - of self
    - of each other
    - of communities
      - Family
      - Macroculture
Cultural notions of Friendship
- Individualist notion of voluntariness
  - Understanding, respect, and sincerity
- Collectivist notion of obligation
  - Quanxi - how things get done
  - Togetherness, trust, and warmth
Relational stages
- Initial attraction
  - Proximity
  - Physical Attraction
  - Similarity
  - Complementarity
- Exploration
  - Cultural rules
    - High context versus low context
    - Romance
  - Self-Disclosure
  - Communication Receptivity
- Stability
  - Intimacy
    - Supportive Communication
  - Relationship as culture
    - Cohesion
    - Family Rules
    - Family as culture
    - Society as relational constraint
      - Cultural Adapability
  - Styles of Intercultural adaptations
    - Submissive
      - One-way adjustment
    - Compromise
      - Alternate adjustment
      - Mixing
      - Midpoint Compromise
    - Obliteration
      - Creative Adjustment
    - Consensus
Ritual and intercultural relationships
- Intercultural Relationships and Business

Index Card Assignment Due Thursday: Attend one or more of the Communication Department Presentations at Quest Day on Wednesday, April 17. Most of these presentations are located in Lanigan 104 and run from 8:30am to 2:00pm. Additional presentations are in Lanigan 107a at 3:15 and 3:30. Check the Quest brochure, which is currently available outside the CELT center in the library, but which should be generally available in Lanigan Hall and other places around campus on Wednesday, for details of what presentations are at what time. On one side of an index card indicate which presentation you attended and what you found interesting about it. The lecture of most interest to this class are John Kares Smith's talk about Hiroshima, in Lanigan 104 at 1:45.

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