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• Globalization is the increasing economic, political, and cultural integration and interdependence of diverse cultures, the worldwide integration of humanity.
• Diversity is the recognition and valuing of difference, encompassing factors such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, ability, religion, education, marital status, sexual orientation, and income.
• Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments of different nations, driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology.
• Globalization has effects on the environment, culture, political systems, economic development and prosperity, and physical well-being in societies around the world.
• Marshall McLuhan predicted that our world would become a global village due to the mass media.
• We are now linked physically and electronically to people around the globe.
• People we once considered strangers are now friends and co-workers, creating the need for multiculturalists.
• A multiculturalist is a person respectful of and engaged with people from distinctly different cultures.
• Globalization occurs if there is movement of people, money, products, technology, ideas/knowledge/information.
• Culture is the system of knowledge, beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that are acquired, shared, and used by its members during daily living.
• Within a culture as a whole are co-cultures; these are composed of members of the same general culture who differ in some ethnic or sociological way from the parent culture.
• Intercultural communication is at work whenever cultural variability influences the nature and the effects of communication.
• Intercultural communication comprises a number of forms including interracial communication, interethnic communication, international communication, and intracultural communication.
• To improve your ability to communicate interculturally, refrain from formulating expectations based solely on your own culture, recognize how faulty education can impede understanding, and make a commitment to develop communication skills and abilities appropriate to life in a multicultural world.
• Global market: Globalization has brought impact on political and cultural aspects of the world.
• Cross-culture management: Globalization has introduced new challenges in cross-culture management.
• Brought in different ideologies: Globalization has brought in different ideologies from various parts of the world.
• New specific research pattern: Globalization has introduced a new specific research pattern.
• Job insecurity: Globalization has led to job insecurity due to the outsourcing of manufacturing work to countries where costs of manufacturing goods and wages are lower.
• Fluctuation in price: Globalization has led to fluctuation in price due to increased competition.
• Connecting to the other sides of the world: Globalization has made it easier to connect to the other sides of the world through technologies and the internet.
• Increased business opportunities: Globalization has created increased business opportunities for countries around the world.
• Fewer cultural barriers: Globalization has broken down cultural barriers, making it easier for people to interact and communicate with others from different cultures.
• Creation of global village: Globalization has created a global village where distance and isolation no longer matter because people are connected by technology.
• Intercultural communication: Intercultural communication occurs when members of two or more cultures or co-cultures exchange messages in a manner that is influenced by their different cultural perceptions and symbol systems, both verbal and non-verbal.
• Ethnocentrism: is the inability to accept another cultures world view.
• Discrimination: is the treatment to an individual due to minority status, actual & perceived.
• Stereotyping: is generalizing about a person.
• Cultural blindness: is the act of ignoring differences and proceeding as though differences did not exist.
• Cultural imposition: is the belief that everyone should conform to the majority.
• General guidelines for communicating in a multicultural context: General guidelines for communicating in a multicultural context include increasing your level of understanding about other cultures by communicating with people outside of your own culture, not imposing values on others that may bring conflict or inconsistencies with other cultures, being sensitive to concepts and terms revolving around family, gender roles, religion and emotional well-being for the vary significantly among cultures and behaviors, using materials that are acceptable among various cultural groups within the local