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Cultural Awareness Quiz

CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

UNIT 1

Controlled Practice

SPEAKING

Cross-Cultural Awareness

Exercise 1. Read the statements below. Do you agree or disagree with them? Explain your opinion. Use appropriate expressions from the box.

1. The problem with communication … is the illusion that it has been accomplished. (George Bernard Show, a famous British playwright)

2. Every country has its own way of saying things. The important point is that which lies behind people's words. (Freya Stark, a British explorer and travel writer)

3. To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. (Jose Ortega y Gassett, a famous Spanish philosopher)

4. Your business partner's background culture – the way of life he was brought up in – will affect his approach to every decision. (John Mattock, a CEO of an international management training consultancy)

5. Language is what we hear, but culture is how we understand. (Dr. Deborah Swallow, an authority on intercultural communication and business practices)

6. The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt. (Karl Kraus, an Austrian writer)

7. "...the single greatest barrier to business success is the one erected by culture." (Edward T. Hall and Mildred Reed Hall, American anthropologists)

Exercise 2. Do the Cultural Awareness Quiz to find out how well you know the cultural peculiarities of different countries.

Cultural Awareness Quiz

Are the statements true or false?

1. Japanese often send money to bereaved friends as an expression of sympathy.

2. Number 4 is considered lucky in Japan.

3. Eating with one's left hand is taboo in Saudi Arabia.

4. White flowers in Japan are given at funerals.

5. In Britain you tip your plate away from you when eating soup.

6. Arabs expect gifts to be opened in front of the giver.

7. Japanese, unlike Chinese, do not mind "losing face".

8. Most Scandinavians start their bargaining with what is in their opinion the fair price.

9. British people drink more than 200 million cups of tea a day.

10. In Thailand a pale face is a sign of beauty in a woman.

11. The thumbs up sign means 'OK' in Argentina.

12. All Arabs are Muslims.

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