The Potential for Intercultural Competence: Ethics

1. The Potential for Intercultural Competence: Ethics Lustig & Koester Chapter 12

2. Contact Problems • The Question: Does contact between members of oppositional groups (e.g., dominant/subordinate) lead to positive feelings? • The Answer: Not necessarily • Dominance and hierarchy • “Correctness” of language styles • Greater access to communication channels • A matter of “voice” (disenfranchisement): MGT • Attitudes among cultural members

3. Contact and Attitudes among Cultural Members Attitudes • Positive: 8 conditions • Support from the top • Personal stake • Pleasing outcome • Own goal accomplishment • Strength of identification • Perceived threat • Typicality of members • Cultural stereotypes • Others? • Implications?

4. Outcomes of Contact (??): Cross- Outcomes Stress Adaptation process Assimilation Integration Separation vs. segregation Marginalization Culture shock Individual differences and intercultural personhood

5. Reconsidering cultural identity…

7. Culture Shock Hypotheses U-curve hypothesis W-curve hypothesis

8. Ethics…discussion Cultural or personal ethical relativism (p. 102 in packets) Ethics, morality and legality Are there any universal ethics? If so, what are they? Should other cultures be judged based on a set of universal ethics? (how about human rights movements, etc.?)

9. Ethical stances • Cultural relativism • Universal ethics • Human spirit: • Peace imperative • Utilitarianism: • What are implications of each? What sorts of ethical questions does each raise?

10. Three Problems of Ethics • The newcomer as responsible • Can we deem a practice morally wrong? • Examples: women’s issues, bribery for news • What can we do?

11. Consideration: Unity and Diversity Impact of national and international events Globalism and globalization Preservation of cultural identity How culture affects interpretations How interpretations affect culture

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