Why is it beneficial to compare your own communication preferences with those of a typical person from another culture?
It is important to learn different communication preferences and also compare them to your own so that communication will be more efficient and effective between the two people communicating. We learn about high and low context cultures on page 109. This example shows that there are large differences between cultures and in order to get past those differences it is important to understand and compare similarities and differences in cultures. Also by comparing communication preferences you will better understand Hofstede’s cultural taxonomy which is explained on pages 113-124. It also helps clarifying cultural practices from cultural values (pg. 138).
Define stereotyping and discrimination. Why is the process of stereotyping a necessary human function?
Stereotyping is using prior experiences as the basis for determining both the categories and the attributes of the events (pg. 149). Discrimination refers to the behavioral manifestations of that prejudice (pg. 158). Stereotyping allows people to respond efficiently to a variety of perceptual stimuli. Also some categorization is necessary and normal because it acts as an energy-saving device mentally so that you can generalize efficiently (pg. 156). Although stereotyping can create misunderstandings it is important to use mindfulness when it comes to stereotyping in order to avoid such misunderstandings.
What were some of Helen Zia’s college experiences that led to her activism?
I feel that her first experience at Princeton was one that influenced her activism. This was when she arrived at the college to find her mentors were still asleep and had been up protesting and partying. While visiting the college the Asian mentors had told them many stories of being a protesting Asian student and also other experiences. She also learned much more when she learned about the history of her past and the history of the Asian cultures that were present at the campus. I feel that her first experience being in charge of the security in the Firestone Library was also a large impact in the fact that she became so active. It started a fire and sparked passion in her to influence her to continue on with the activism.
Compare and contrast Patricia Hill Collins definition of “decent” and “street” families.
Decent families are those where members had some connection to traditional jobs in the formal blue-collared labor market or secondary labor markets. During the1980’s these families struggled to get by because of increase of drugs and guns that often lost to unemployment and trouble with the police. Street families are families who have been linked to the informal economy of the global drug industry and have more tenuous connections to school, employment, and other markets of citizenship. They also have problems with employment however they have little chance of ever being “decent” or even wanting to become “decent.” In a nutshell the similarities they both have issues with employment and law. The decent families are experiencing stereotyping and the street families are the cause of that. The differences are that the decent families are trying to make a decent life for themselves by working in legal ways and the street families are taking advantage of the drug economy and are not motivated to do things the legal way.
It is important to learn different communication preferences and also compare them to your own so that communication will be more efficient and effective between the two people communicating. We learn about high and low context cultures on page 109. This example shows that there are large differences between cultures and in order to get past those differences it is important to understand and compare similarities and differences in cultures. Also by comparing communication preferences you will better understand Hofstede’s cultural taxonomy which is explained on pages 113-124. It also helps clarifying cultural practices from cultural values (pg. 138).
Define stereotyping and discrimination. Why is the process of stereotyping a necessary human function?
Stereotyping is using prior experiences as the basis for determining both the categories and the attributes of the events (pg. 149). Discrimination refers to the behavioral manifestations of that prejudice (pg. 158). Stereotyping allows people to respond efficiently to a variety of perceptual stimuli. Also some categorization is necessary and normal because it acts as an energy-saving device mentally so that you can generalize efficiently (pg. 156). Although stereotyping can create misunderstandings it is important to use mindfulness when it comes to stereotyping in order to avoid such misunderstandings.
What were some of Helen Zia’s college experiences that led to her activism?
I feel that her first experience at Princeton was one that influenced her activism. This was when she arrived at the college to find her mentors were still asleep and had been up protesting and partying. While visiting the college the Asian mentors had told them many stories of being a protesting Asian student and also other experiences. She also learned much more when she learned about the history of her past and the history of the Asian cultures that were present at the campus. I feel that her first experience being in charge of the security in the Firestone Library was also a large impact in the fact that she became so active. It started a fire and sparked passion in her to influence her to continue on with the activism.
Compare and contrast Patricia Hill Collins definition of “decent” and “street” families.
Decent families are those where members had some connection to traditional jobs in the formal blue-collared labor market or secondary labor markets. During the1980’s these families struggled to get by because of increase of drugs and guns that often lost to unemployment and trouble with the police. Street families are families who have been linked to the informal economy of the global drug industry and have more tenuous connections to school, employment, and other markets of citizenship. They also have problems with employment however they have little chance of ever being “decent” or even wanting to become “decent.” In a nutshell the similarities they both have issues with employment and law. The decent families are experiencing stereotyping and the street families are the cause of that. The differences are that the decent families are trying to make a decent life for themselves by working in legal ways and the street families are taking advantage of the drug economy and are not motivated to do things the legal way.