Christianity
Byzantine Christianity, 170
community and, 118– 119
core assumptions, 118
courage and, 120
cultural expressions, 118– 123
description, 117– 118
ethics and, 121– 122
future and, 120
Greek Orthodox Christianity, 170
individualism and, 119
notions about death, 122– 123
statement of“doing’’and, 119– 120
Civil Rights Act, 284, 396
Climate change, 11
Clinton, Bill, 163
CMF.SeeCombined Maritime Forces
Cognitive flexibility, 62
Collectivism
family and, 89– 92
individualism and, 88
learning culture, 47
value dimensions, 224–225, 239
Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), 13
Common culture, 57– 58
Communal identity, 246
Communication.See alsoHuman commu-
nication; Nonverbal communication
competence through families, 99– 100
Confucianism and, 155– 156
cultural identity, 27
cultural patterns and, 238
culture and, 37– 38
ethics in, 400– 402
flexibility, 65
fulfilling interpersonal needs, 26– 27
multicultural classroom, 364– 365
personal identity, 27
person perception, 27
persuasive qualities, 27
Community
Christianity and, 118– 119
Judaism and, 127– 128
Compadrazgo, 90
Competing stimuli, 29
Competition, 210– 211
Complex human communication, 35– 36
Conflict management, 350– 351
Conformity stage, 257
Confucianism
Analects, 153 – 154
communication and, 155– 156
Confucius, 152– 153
core assumptions, 153
culturalexpressions, 154– 155
definition, 152
ethics and, 156Jen(humanism), 154
Li(rituals, rites, proprieties,
conventions), 154
notions about death, 156– 157
Te(Power), 155
Wen(The Arts), 155
Connotative meaning, 270
Consecutive interpreting, 284– 285
Consistent perception, 201
Contemporary Mexico, 188
Contemporary social issues
Chinese culture, 176
Indian culture, 184
Japanese culture, 180– 181
Mexican culture, 188
Russian culture, 171
United States, 167– 168
Content knowledge, 62
Contextual human communication
description, 31– 32
environmental context, 32– 33
number of participants, 32
occasion, 33
time, 33
Contradictory cultural patterns,
204 – 205
Conversational taboos, 290– 291
Cortés, Hernando, 186
Crockett, Davy, 48
CTM.SeeChinese Traditional Medicine
Cultural boundary maintenance, 56
Cultural dimensions
exclusionismversusuniversalism,
233 – 234
industryversusindulgence,
231 – 232
monumentalismversusflexumility,
232 – 233
Cultural identity
communication, 27
definitions, 244
establishing and enacting, 259– 260
globalization and, 261– 262
Culturally determined perception,
201
Cultural patterns
caveats, 204– 205
communication and, 238
contradictory, 204– 205
dynamic, 204
face concept, 236– 238
influence of, 239
integrated, 204
selection of, 205
understanding, 203– 205
Culturalrelativism, 401– 402
Cultural skills, 97– 98Cultural universalism, 402
Cultural values
action/work orientation, 211– 212
awareness, 238– 240
change, 207– 208
competition, 210– 211
directness, openness, honesty,
212 – 213
efficiency, 213
egalitarianism, 208– 209
equality, 208– 209
free enterprise, 210– 211
future orientation, 211
high-context cultures, 220– 221
individuality, 209– 210
informality, 212
loose cultures, 234– 235
low-context cultures, 222
materialism, 213
personal control over nature, 206– 207
practicality, 213
privacy, 209– 210
self-help, 210
tight cultures, 235– 236
time and control, 208
Culture
basic function of, 38
communication and, 37– 38
context and, 339– 340
definition, 39
intercultural competence, 61
nonverbal communication and,
301 – 302
popular, 55
Culture characteristics
dynamic, 54– 56
generation to generation
transformation, 41
learned/learning (SeeLearning culture)
shared, 40– 41
symbols, 41– 43
Culture elements
history, 57– 58
language, 59– 60
religion, 57
social organizations, 58– 59
values, 58
worldview, 57
Culture general knowledge, 63
Culture’sdeep structure
description, 68– 71
social institutions, 69
social organizations, 69– 70
Culture shock
acculturation and, 384– 386
definition of, 381
impact of, 381– 382Index 447Copyright 2017 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s).