CRISTIAN JHAY D.

TERCERO
BSE 1-4, MATHEMATICS

Lesson 1

LOCAL AND GLOBAL COMMUNICATION IN

MULTICULTURAL SETTINGS

LEARNING ACTIVITY
1. What is a culture, and how is it different from a society?

Culture is the collective cognitive training that distinguishes members of

one human group from those of another. In this meaning, culture is a taught
collection of common interpretations of ideas, values, conventions, and social
practices that influence the behaviour of a large group of people. The definition of
society on the other hand, is a large segment of the population who live together in
an organized manner, making important decisions about how to do things and
sharing the work that must be done. A society is made up of all the inhabitants of a
nation, or a group of comparable countries. A collection of people who share
similar beliefs, rules, and customs and live in organized communities for mutual
benefit is referred to as a society.

2. How do societies use symbols, language, values, and norms to reflect

their cultures?

To developing and understanding the better societies nowadays that uses

the symbol is a representation of an idea. So each culture seems to have its own
symbols that symbolize concepts that are important to that society, almost as
statements do. The Philippine national dance, "Tinikling," for example, is a
symbol of the country's culture.
Language facilitates the transmission of civilizations and conceptual
frameworks from generation to the next generation. For example, each place's
mother tongue is the first language you acquire as a baby, rather than a language
you learn at school or as an adult that represents their cultures.
The criteria by which a culture values how excellent, attractive, or gorgeous
something is are known as its values. In a summary, they're our ideas about what
should be. Some kindness, assisting others, generosity, centering family,
humanity, taking the moral high ground, devotion and spirituality, hospitality, and
so on are all values of the Philippine culture.
In a society, norms are standards or assumptions that determine people's
conduct. For example, "pagmamano," "po at opo," “beso-beso”, and
"paghaharana" are all norms in Filipino culture.

3. What is a co-culture? Give five examples of co-cultures.

Co-cultures exist in the same way as cultures exist. Co-cultures are

groupings of individuals who, in addition to their national citizenship, share
values, beliefs, and conventions based on shared interests or traits. The coculture
isn't determined by the place in something you were born or the society in which
you grew up. It's made up of smaller groups of people with whom you share
common interests. A co-culture is a group whose values, beliefs, or actions
distinguish it from the broader culture, of which it is a member and has many
characteristics. Many co - cultures can exist inside a culture, and these co-cultures
can survive. The five example of co - culture that could be based on shared
activities like performers, cyclists, swimmers, professional athletes,
instrumentalists.
4. Which in-group do you identify the most strongly with?

To define groups that we view as different from ourselves, we should use

word in-groups to refer to groups that we identify with. I preferred to identify the
most strongly with is the Assimilation. They strive to fit in with members of the
dominant culture or form friendships with them. They converse about things that
dominant group members converse about, such as sports and technology, or they
dress in a manner similar to dominant group members. They abandon their own
techniques in order to conform to the prevailing culture's norms.

5. What is the similarity assumption, and how does it influence our ability to
communicate with cultural awareness?

The Similarity Assumption is a type of perceptual distortion that can arise

during assessment interviews. This occurs when the assessor, drawn to the
candidate, erroneously thinks that the candidate shares comparable traits to himself
or herself. The authorized correlation discovered a significant link between
similarity assumptions. Managers frequently believe that the speaker has
comparable social skills and communication styles to themselves. It has both good
and bad features. For the other example, if you want challenges and responsibility
in your job, you’ll assume that others want the same. People who assume that
others are like them can, of course, be right, but not always. To communicate
effectively with people from different cultures, we would have to be more aware
of how their behaviour and thought processes differ from our own. The difficulty
is that some of us work on the similarity assumption, which means we assume that
other people believe the same thing we do without questioning whether or not this
is accurate. Even though we are frequently oblivious to the fact that we
already know we have emotions in a particular circumstance. From my own
perspective, even though all of these are some of the most fundamental ways that
understanding effective communication concerning cultural aspects may help
me become a more culturally diverse individual in a society.
LESSON 2

VARIETIES AND REGISTERS OF SPOKEN

AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE

LEARNING ACTIVITY

Imagine a communication situation where an American and a British

are talking. Write a dialogue between them two, using at least five words to
illustrate the difference between American English and British English.
Make sure to underline the words you use.

1. Overpass / Flyover
American English
We can't afford to pay any additional costs because we already
recognized that the site was suitable for a overpass.

British English
We can't afford to pay any additional costs because we already
recognized that the site was suitable for a flyover.

2. Trash can / Rubbish bin

American English

I crushed the newspaper and threw it in the nearest trash can.

British English
I crushed the newspaper and threw it in the nearest rubbish bin.

3. Drugstore / Pharmacy
American English
I have to go to the drugstore to get my prescription filled.

British English
I have to go to the pharmacy to get my prescription filled.

4. Mail / Post
American English
 I’ll forward any mail to your new address.

British English
 I’ll forward any post to your new address.

5. Soda / Soft drink

American English
I want to quench my thirst by drinking that bottle of soda.

British English
I want to quench my thirst by drinking that bottle of soft drink.
SUMMATIVE TEST

A. True or False
1. . A person's culture is determined by his or her ethnicity or race.
Answer: False

2. In a high-context culture, people are expected to be direct, clear, and

explicit in their communication with others.
Answer: False

3. In an individualistic culture, people believe that their primary

responsibility is to themselves and value self-reliance.
Answer: True

4. Accommodation happens when members of a marginalized group resist

interacting with members of the dominant culture.
Answer: False

5. Cultures differ from one another in their use of language, which are
verbal and nonverbal behaviors whose meanings are often understood only
by people from the same culture.
Answer: False

B. Fill in the blanks

1. Within many large cultures are a host of smaller groups of people ref
erred to as Co-cultures.

2. The perception of time as holistic, fluid, and unstructured is associated

with the Polychronic orientation toward time.

3. The extent to which people try to avoid situations that are unstructured,
unclear, or unpredictable is called Uncertainty Avoidance.

4. Formal register is considered as the most difficult type of writing. It is

not written for a specific person and is very objective and often without
emotion.

5. Casual register is also called "group" language and may include slang and
colloquialisms.
C. Essay

1. What co-cultures do you belong to or identify with? What are some ways
that your co-cultures influence how you communicate with others?

I adhere within this co-culture as I assumed, which might have been

premised on our shared belief as Roman Catholics.As increase the
possibility whether my co-culture might attract an audience and I will
concentrate on how that would speak out. To do anything else, I need to
discover what those our primary audience seems to be. This same lifestyle of
just about any particular co-culture upon which I belong is a major presence
something which I can influences and specifies my outlook as well as
impacts how I engage with others like to promote some activities that would
gain the probability of the communication. It can be rather prominent, but it
can still be applied in places I would not expect to see it, including certain
public places. That group of individuals who interact and have a shared
belief may be encountered anywhere.

2. What one thing did you learn from reading this module that you think
would help you become a more competent cross-cultural communicator?
Why? Explain.

This module taught me understanding multi-cultural communication

necessitates not just knowledge and expertise with more than just a
language, but which also acquaintance with so many other kinds and
domains of language, particularly whether spoken written. Interacting with
cultural awareness in multi-cultural contexts entails being conscious through
your own cultural beliefs and assumptions, as well as understanding that
others may not reflect them. I want to know a person and be acknowledged
by them as effective communicators. Realizing how culture influences
communication helps us to create constructive dialogue with others.
Consequently, one thing I might also have acquired beyond this reading
module which also I thought would help me pursue a competitive career as a
cross-cultural communicator is that understanding, consistent with cultural
sensitivity, perspective, and specific connections, seems to be indispensable.
It entails having a better awareness and devoting myself even more
effectively to the creation of many more efficient communication and
strategy which thus allows me to be self-sufficient. I am able to recruit and
retain the greatest people by drawing from a culturally diversified set of
skills. With a wide skill set, I am able to provide a better and more adaptive
variety of communication and services.