Food and Culture 6th Edition by Joel Rudinow, Pamela Goyan Kittler, Kathryn Sucher, Kathryn Sucher, Marcia Nelms

Exercise 3

What is meant by low- or high-context and uncertainty avoidance in describing verbal communications? Name one culture that is low-context and one culture that is high-context. How may an individual's relationship to the group differ between high- and low-context cultures? How does uncertainty avoidance differ from risk avoidance? Give an example.