Tell us about yourself so you can meet and greet fellow Grantham University students within your course.
Part A:
Tell us about yourself so you can meet and greet fellow Grantham University students within your course. Describe three reasons that it is important to know about intercultural communication today. Give evidence to support each of your reasons.
Find your own statistics about domestic racial, religious, language, or other diversity; or about international demographics, or social situations in need of civic engagement and share your findings. Do you agree with your findings?
Part B:
Case Study
A kiss is just a kiss, a bribe is just a bribe…
You are visiting a culture in which the law enforcement officials (that is, the police) and other civic officials do not receive substantial pay. The country is also highly “bureaucratic” (a lot of “red tape” to get any legal paperwork processed, and so on). As a result of this, it is a general cultural expectation, though officially illegal, to give officials in businesses or on the police force a little “palm greasing”—a little money “under the table” either to have a job expedited at a civic office or to have an officer overlook a misdemeanor. You are out on a date with your girl/boyfriend and decide to engage in a passionate kiss.* The public kiss in this very conservative culture is illegal and you can face time in jail for a misdemeanor, though it is something that is frequently overlooked. An officer sees you, deduces from your dress and mannerisms that you are a “foreigner”, and is starting to ticket you. You strongly suspect that it is culturally acceptable at this time to give a little money to get out of the ticket—but you also know that this is officially illegal in this country and highly unethical in your own culture. What will you do? What ethical choices guide your decision?
*This portion of scenario is based on a real incident involving Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty, in India.
Case Study questions
Summarize the different possible perspectives to the issue.
What are the benefits and disadvantages of a cultural relativism approach to the case?
What response would more recent efforts at defining intercultural ethics—such as the peace/humanistic ethic or the dialogic ethic—propose in such a case?
What cultural values might be associated with the different ethical stances?
The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:
Write between 1,000-1,500 words (approximately 4-6 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style.
Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
Include cover page and reference page.
At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
Use at least three of references to support your position, and defend your arguments.
Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.
The following are examples of primary and secondary sources that may be used:
Primary sources such as, government websites (United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Census Bureau, The World Bank, etc.), peer reviewed and scholarly journals in EBSCOhost (Grantham University Online Library) and Google Scholar.
Secondary and credible sources such as, CNN Money, The Wall Street Journal, trade journals, and publications in EBSCOhost (Grantham University Online Library).
The following are examples of non-credible and opinion based sources that may not be used:
Non-credible and opinion based sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc.
APA resources, including a template, are provided in the Supplemental Materials folder.
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