Week 4:
BSIT-1-A
Pcom Act5 Week4 Lesson 3
Lesson 3 – Communication and Globalization
(Globalization, World English’s, Culturally Sensitive and Bias-Free Language,
Varieties of spoken and Written Language in Multicultural Settings)
ACTIVITY
Assess your personal preparedness to communicate effectively with persons of different
cultures by labeling each of the following statements as true or false.
False. I enjoy communicating with persons unlike me as much as with persons like me.
True. I am equally sensitive to the concerns of all groups in our multicultural society.
FALSE. I can tell when persons from other cultures do not understand me or are confused by
my actions.
TRUE. Persons of other cultures have a right to be angry at members of my culture.
TRUE. How I handle disagreements with persons from other cultures depends on the situation
and the culture they are from.
ETHNOCENTRISM VERSUS CULTURAL RELATIVISM
Evaluate the extent to which you display culturally ethnocentric or culturally relativistic
tendencies by labelling the following statements true or false. For each statement, provide an
example of behaviors you used when interacting with or attempting to avoid interacting with a
member of another culture. Be specific.
TRUE 1. I would rather communicate with someone like me than with someone unlike me.
I will only communicate to the person who with me in the same vibes, unless they approach me first.
FALSE 2. I can cooperate with people like me, but I find it difficult to cooperate with people
unlike me.
I am just cooperated to the people who like me when it becomes in a serious situation, same as people
who unlike be. Me as a myself, even you like me or unlike me, I will cooperate, because I don’t think
what people think about me.
TRUE 3. I trust those who are like me more freely than I trust those who are different from me.
Truly, completely, fact I will only trust those people who I know his/her whole personality than the
others, I’m a type of person who not easily trusting friend/people around me.
FALSE 4. I am less fearful when I am around people like me than when I am around people
unlike me.
I’m grew up beside my grandfather, I grew up have such no friends so in this age I wouldn’t feel any fear
for any people even they like me or unlike me, friends or strangers.
TRUE 5. I go out of my way to be with people like me.
I go out and be with myself showing my true attitude, my traits the way who is me.
FALSE 6. I go out of my way to maintain my distance from people unlike me.
I socialize with them in a situation need, like when you asking direction, yet if it not need I’m just quite
FALSE 7. I am much more apt to blame people unlike me for causing trouble than I am to blame
people like me.
For me I will never blame a person, unless they have doing wrong.
TRUE 8. I use my frame of reference to assess the rightness of the behaviors of people like and
unlike me.
I just want to know who is me true with me, and a people who can I trust.
TRUE 9. I believe that people unlike me threaten my ability to succeed.
Yes, lots of people who not believe me to be succeed someday, yet all of that I will just make them my
inspiration, showing that I will be successful someday.
FALSE 10. I believe that people unlike me should make an effort to become like me.
I never think about that just go on whatever they want to their life.
Questions
1.What do your answers and examples tell you about the extent to which you and others practice
ethnocentrism or cultural relativism?
2.Are there some cultures different from your own that you are more comfortable with than others?
Why do you think that is so?
Yes, culture has an influence on what is seen as attractive, and thus people from different cultures will
have at least something unique in their preference when you relate with other cultures.
3.Are you content with your responses? Why or why not?
Yes, all question I honestly
4.What steps are you willing to take, if any, to minimize the potentially negative effects of
ethnocentrism?
Avoid Assumptions, learn about other cultures, avoid judgments and Be respectful
