INTERCULTURAL COMM 335-TAMU
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Absent Histories - answerAny part of history that was not recorded or that is missing. Not
everything that happened in the past is accessible to us today because only some voices were
documented.
Altered Histories - answerSometimes historical event...
Absent Histories - answer✔Any part of history that was not recorded or that is missing. Not
everything that happened in the past is accessible to us today because only some voices were
documented.
Altered Histories - answer✔Sometimes historical events are changed in order to serve particular
ideological goals. This communication practices results in a revised history.
Colonial Histories - answer✔The histories that legitimate international invasions and
annexations.
Contact Hypothesis - answer✔the notion that better communication between groups is facilitated
simply by putting people together in the same place and allowing them to interact.
Diasporic Histories - answer✔The histories of the ways in which international cultural groups
were created through transnational migrations, slavery, religious crusades, or other historical
forces.
Ethnic Histories - answer✔The histories of ethnic groups.
Ethnocentrism - answer✔A tendency to think that our own culture is superior to other cultures.
We subconsciously think that the way we do things is the only way.
Grand Narrative - answer✔A unified history and view of mankind. Dominated how people
thought of the past, present, and future. Refers to the overarching, all encompassing story of a
nation or human kind in general.
Hidden Histories - answer✔The histories that are hidden from or forgotten by the mainstream
representations of past events.
National Histories - answer✔A body of knowledge based on past events that have influenced a
country's development.
Social Histories - answer✔Written histories that focus on everyday life experiences of various
groups in the past.
What are the 3 research approaches to studying intercultural communication? - answer✔1. The
social science (functionalist) approach
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