Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.
| Politeness and Intercultural Communication |
Read the online article “Politeness Makes Perfect (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.“ and the online article “Business Across Cultures: Etiquette at Work (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.” regarding the concept of politeness and how it manifests itself in oral communications among people in Japanese and Indonesian society. How do you think views of politeness in these cultures compare with views of politeness in United States culture? Is the term “politeness” interpreted in the same or in different ways? Provide at least three statements and behaviors Americans use that demonstrate the value placed on politeness in U.S. culture. Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ postings by Day 7. (You must create one initial post and at least two responses, for a minimum of three posts for this discussion.
WEEK3 DQ1
| Dominant United States Values and Cultural Patterns |
Complete the Values Checklist and compare your answers to the dominant U.S. cultural patterns discussed in Chapter 8 of our text. Then address the following questions:
- How do your values compare to the dominant United States cultural patterns?
- Which three values on this list are the most important to you?
- Can you identify when and where you first learned these three values?
- Do these three values affect how you communicate? If so, how?
- Do these three values affect your intercultural communication?
