ASSIGNMENT As a business manager, you may encounter situations that require a wide variety of communication responses. For this assessment, you will be creating a portfolio of communication documents. Appropriately format each communication for the message type. SCENARIO Scenario 1 You are a manager of a company that has recently purchased and merged with a […]
Can you fall into the traps of ethnocentrism and stereotyping even when you are consciously trying to avoid them? Explain your answer.
Discussion Board Can you fall into the traps of ethnocentrism and stereotyping even when you are consciously trying to avoid them? Explain your answer. Requirements for Post: An appropriate length for an original post is 150-300 words. Quality is more important than quantity; try to make your posts concise. You should be responding to AT […]
Share an experience you’ve personally had with ethnocentrism. How did this experience have an impact on you and/or others in the moment?
Week 8 Discussion Choose one of these options for your initial post: Option 1: Share an experience you’ve personally had with ethnocentrism. How did this experience have an impact on you and/or others in the moment? What was a potential solution to educate those involved in this experience about minimizing ethnocentrism? Option 2: Share a […]
Identify both positive and negative aspects of ethnocentrism. Explain which features do you consider positive verses negative?
Aspects of Ethnocentrism Identify both positive and negative aspects of ethnocentrism. Which features do you consider positive verses negative? How might both aspects affect the way tourists visit a foreign country, the way students study comparative justice systems, or even the way an author prepares a textbook on comparative justice?
Discuss how your personal ethnocentrism, stereotypes, attitudes, beliefs, etc. were challenged and/or changed as a result of each experience.
Term Paper Attending an ethnic restaurant in an ethnic neighborhood and writing about the experience i.e. the food, neighborhood, language usage of menu, staff, etc. Discuss how your personal ethnocentrism, stereotypes, attitudes, beliefs, etc. were challenged and/or changed as a result of each experience. Discuss how it served as an exercise for personal growth, what […]
To what extent can ethnocentrism be considered a normal reaction, and when could it become destructive and unproductive? Provide examples to support your answer.
Business Communications Assignment 3 It is quite natural to favor one’s own country over a foreign one. To what extent can ethnocentrism be considered a normal reaction, and when could it become destructive and unproductive? Provide examples to support your answer. (L.O. 2, 3) Link to text: https://b-ok.cc/book/5010449/cc48fc
Discuss the similarities between the incarceration of Japanese in intermittent camps during WWII and the incarceration of the children of Latin American immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. during Donald Trump’s presidency.
Incarceration of Japanese Discuss the similarities between the incarceration of Japanese in intermittent camps during WWII and the incarceration of the children of Latin American immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. during Donald Trump’s presidency. Key terms for the analysis: migration, racism, ethnocentrism, in-group, out-group
Watch the short home page video clips from “An Idiot Abroad” then share a time when you experienced culture shock.
An Idiot Abroad Watch the short home page video clips from “An Idiot Abroad”. Then look up the definitions for culture shock and ethnocentrism. Share a time when you experienced culture shock.
How would symbolic interactions explain the social phenomenon of people standing in lines for days to get the latest iPhone?
Mid Term Short Answer Questions Consider what you have learned about the sociological imagination. Choose one of the following topics: war, unemployment, divorce, or poverty and provide an example of a public issue and a private trouble associated with the topic. Describe how the two influence each other. What characteristics are sociologists looking at when […]
Provide a summary or self-reflection of your identity which must include the 6 regulators listed above.
In your current and future career, you will meet and interact with people from diverse backgrounds with differing viewpoints, beliefs and values. This assignment is a self-reflective exercise to help you understand and describe your own cultural identity and context. Self-reflection is an important aspect of intercultural competencies as it helps you understand your own […]