Chapter 2: Warm Up

Which of the following best defines​ culture?

Imagine you work for a U.S. company that sells its products to​ China, which the company considers one of its important growing markets. Which of the following would be the most successful approach to increase​ sales?

What are the​ ideas, beliefs, and customs to which people are emotionally​ attached?

A westerner​ says, "I do not like the Japanese purifications ritual because it involves being naked in a communal​ bath." The westerner quoted here might value modesty and hold conservative beliefs regarding exposure of the body. The westerner in this case would be communicating​ ________.

Which of the following is a system of social stratification in which people are born into social​ ranking, with no opportunity for social​ mobility?

Which country is a classic example of a caste​ culture?

Which of the following religions is the​ world's single largest​ religion?

Which of the following religions prohibits the consumption of alcohol and​ pork?

Which of the following causes the most misunderstanding between people of different​ cultures?

​_____________ is the most widely used language of all web pages on the Internet.

One of the​ Kluckhohn-Strodtbeck Framework six dimensions asks if a people focus on past​ events, on​ present, or on future implications of their actions. Under this dimension the Japanese focus on the​ ________.

Which of the following statements identifies culture with high uncertainty​ avoidance?