Writing Homework Help

Dominant United States Values and Cultural Patterns

To gain a better understanding of how culture and diversity influence communication, complete the Values Checklist, and compare your answers to the dominant U.S. cultural patterns discussed in Chapter 7 of our text. Refer to Chapters 6 and 8 for perspective on culture beyond the United States for comparison. Then address the following questions:

• How do your values compare to the dominant United States cultural patterns?
• Which three values on this list are the most important to you?
• Can you identify when and where you first learned these three values?
• Do these three values affect how you communicate? If so, how?
• Do these three values affect your intercultural communication?