Deck 9: How Can We Succeed in Our Intercultural Transitions

Question 1

Based on Kim's model of acculturation, list and explain three factors within the host environment that influence acculturation.

Answer 1

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Question 2

Explain the five major parts of Kim's adaptation model.

Answer 2

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Question 3

Define culture shock as discussed in the text and explain how it fits into the U curve process of acculturation.

Answer 3

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Question 4

Explain two challenges associated with immigration and how we may meet them productively.

Question 5

What are the four stages in the U-curve model?

Question 6

Discuss how according to Osland the hero's journey parallels working abroad.

Question 7

What are three reasons the return home from another culture can be so difficult?

Question 8

Explain two of the paradoxes discussed in relationship to Osland's hero's journey model.

Question 9

The feeling of disorientation and discouragement a sojourner experiences due to the buildup of unmet expectations is called ______________.

Question 10

A place in another land that is inhabited by ex-patriates, is economically very well off and limits the need for interaction with people from the home culture is called a _______________.

Question 11

Although there can be many reasons people immigrant, most people immigrate for __________________.

Question 12

When relocating to another culture a person often seeks out and participates with an enclave of people with a similar cultural background as his or her own. This tends to:

A) Provide a safe and supportive climate during a time of turmoil
B) Hinder acculturation in the long run
C) Help in the sense-making process accompanying such a change
D) Create an increased sense of separateness from the host culture
E) All of the above

Question 13

The process of becoming communicatively competent in another culture is called:

A) Enculturation
B) Acculturation
C) Occulturation
D) Ribaldification

Question 14

Which is not one of the four adaptation models that immigrants routinely take upon immigrating to a new culture?

A) Assimilation
B) Sense-making
C) Integration
D) Separation

Question 15

The difficulty in readapting to one's home community is partially due to:

A) Unrealistic expectations
B) Naive crisis management
C) Enculturation
D) Lack of language skills

Question 16

Which of the following is not an important part of the stranger's predisposition in the acculturation process described by Kim?

A) Ethnic proximity
B) Adaptive personality
C) Conformity demand
D) Preparation for change

Question 17

Which is not one of the stages in the U-curve model:

A) Contrast
B) Recovery
C) Adjustment
D) Honeymoon
E) Crisis

Question 18

Culture transitions occur only when a person goes through a major move.

Question 19

Knowing the particular practices of a community that is "strange" to you is important because it eliminates all those uncomfortable feelings that one would have otherwise felt.

Question 20

Kim argues that the sheer number and intimacy of interpersonal contacts one has is the biggest predictor of successful
acculturation.