Question: Discussion 1: Dominant United States Values and Cultural Patterns

Complete the Values Checklist (attached below) and compare your answers to the dominant U.S. cultural patterns discussed in Chapter 8 of our text. 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?

Discussion 2: Politeness and Intercultural Communication

Read the online article "Politeness Makes Perfect." and the online article "Business Across Cultures: Etiquette at Work" regarding the concept of politeness and how it manifests itself in oral communications among people in Japanese and Indonesian society. How do you think views of politeness in these cultures compare with views of politeness in United States culture? Is the term "politeness" interpreted in the same or in different ways? Provide at least three statements and behaviors Americans use that demonstrate the value placed on politeness in U.S. culture. Respond to at least two of your fellow students' postings by Day 7. (You must create one initial post and at least two responses, for a minimum of three posts for this discussion.)

Read the following online articles, and be prepared to utilize them in this week's discussions:

• Powell, S. J., & Cabello, A. M. (2016, May 9). The world's most polite country?.

• Whitfield, G.B., III. (1997). Business across cultures: Etiquette at work. Retrieved July 22, 2009, from the Living in Indonesia: A Site for Expatriates Website.

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Attachment:- COM_360_VALUES_CHECKLIST_1.rar