跨文化交际(UNIT 8)Cross-Cultural Perception 英文 .ppt

Stereotype and Prejudice (p292-295) Stereotype A stereotype is a fixed notion about persons in a certain category, with no distinctions made among individuals. In other words, it is an overgeneralized and oversimplified belief we used to categorize a group of people. Prejudice True prejudices are those negative attitudes directed toward groups, especially racial and religious groups, that are formed by highly personal and unreasoned generalizations about all or most members of the group. Stereotype and Prejudice (p292-295) Direct results of prejudice: the formation of ingroups and outgroups. Main causes of racial prejudice: ignorance: it leads to indifference and hostility. insecurity: it leads to fear. Classifications of prejudice: Red-neck racism: based on some imagined standard; formal education. Symbolic racism: expressed in terms of threats to people’s basic values and to the status quo. Tokenism: certain people harbor negative feelings about a given group but do not want to admit this fact to themselves; they engage in unimportant, but positive intergroup behaviors, thus they can effuse to perform more important intergroup behaviors. What is M-Time and P-Time? Which do you think is the dominating time system in our culture? 2. What is the right way of dealing with issues of space and privacy in an intercultural environment? Intercultural Communication Unit 8Cross-Cultural Perception Warm Up Please read the story on page 264 and fill in the blanks. What do you think of the story? “I told the Englishman it was the 1 sporting thing to do, and he jumped. I told the Frenchman it was 2 chic; the German that it was a 3 command; the Italian that it was 4 forbidden; the Russian that it was 5 revolutionary; so they all jumped overboard.” “And how did you get the American to jump?” “No problem,” said the captain, “I told him he was 6 insured!” Of course, what the story tells us about people of those different nations can only be partially true at best and we must