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1CCT200 Week #2: RT
Rhon TeruelleClass #2 – September 17, 2012
CCT200: Intercultural Communication
Approaches to Studying Cultural Patterns and an Overview of Canadian Immigration
AGENDA
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Part I (Digital Storytelling)
Part II (Cultural Patterns)
Part III (Canadian Immigration)CCT200 Week #2: RT
Digital Storytellinghttp://www.storycenter.org/whatis.html
• is used to describe a wide variety of new media production practices.
• is the sharing of these stories and which connects people in special ways.
• is about the events, people, and places in our lives.
• is shown as examples in our workshops which are directly connected to the images that one collects in a life’s journey.
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Cultural Patterns
• Shared beliefs, values, and norms that are stable over time.
• Leads to similar behaviours across similar situations.
• Allows us to make predictions about a culture.
• Allows us to adapt our communication accordingly.
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Cultural Patterns Continued…
According to Fisher (1989), these patterns are a mindset that provides ways of thinking about the world and one’s place in it. Cultural patterns are shared mental programs that govern behaviour.
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Beliefs, Values, and Norms• Beliefs – ideas about the world that people
assume are true.
• Values – things we hold dear.
• According to Sitaram and Hapanen (1979): values are communicated explicitly through symbolic behaviour; the way people communicate is influenced by the values people hold.
• Norms – rules that are socially enforced.
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Beliefs, Values, and Norms cont…
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Communication in a Culture
• Patterns are the filter through which all verbal and nonverbal symbols are interpreted.
• The relationship between patterns and communication is reciprocal.
• We communicate on the basis of the cultural patterns we have learned.
• We learn these cultural patterns through communication with others in our culture.
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Studying Cultural Patterns
• The four studies most used by intercultural researchers and scholars:
Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck (1961)
Hall (1976)
Hofstede (1997)
Bond (1987)
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Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck
• Human nature orientation: What is the character of innate human nature? In short, are humans basically bad, good, or a mixture of both?
• Man-nature relationship: What is the relationship of people to nature? Are humans controlled by nature, control nature, or live in balance with nature?
• Time orientation: What is the time sense of human life? Do they emphasize the past, present, or future?
• Activity orientation: What is the culture’s activity orientation? Are humans being, being-in-becoming, or doing?
• Relational orientation: What is the social relationship of humans to one another? Is it by authorization, group, or individual?
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Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck
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Studying Cultural Patterns
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Edward Hall
• Divided culture into two dimensions: low-context culture and high-context culture.
• In low-context culture, the mass of information is vested in the explicit code.
• In high-context culture, most of the information is either in the physical setting or is internalized in the person; very little is in the coded, explicit, transmitted part of the message.
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Edward Hall
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Geert Hofstede
• Individualism/collectivism – relates to the question of what a culture values in terms of individual achievement or collective group accomplishments.
• Power distance – the degree to which a culture tolerates inequality in power distribution in relationships and organizations.
• Uncertainty avoidance – measures the degree to which a culture can tolerate uncertainty and ambiguous situations.
• Masculinity/femininity – the degree to which stereotypically masculine and feminine traits prevail in a culture.
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Michael Bond
• Prof. Michael Harris
BOND - Emeritus
Professor of PsychologyPh.D., Stanford
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Michael Bond
• Integration – refers to a sense of social stability.
• Human–Heartedness – refers to a sense of gentleness and compassion.
• Moral Discipline – refers to a sense of moderation and restraint in daily activities.
• Confucian Work Dynamism – refers to a person’s orientation toward life and work.
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Canadian Immigration
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http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.asp
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Canadian Immigration• Find out about the requirements and the steps to apply in
each category:• Skilled workers and professionals
For people who want to settle and work in Canada (outside of Quebec)
• Quebec-selected skilled workersFor people selected by the Quebec government to settle and work in Quebec
• Canadian Experience ClassFor people who have recent Canadian work experience or have graduated and recently worked in Canada
• Investors, entrepreneurs and self-employed peopleFor people who want to start a business in Canada
• Provincial nomineesOne of Canada’s provinces or territories can nominate you to settle and work there
• Sponsoring your familyHow to sponsor a family member to join you here if you are a permanent resident or a Canadian citizen
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Questions or comments
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