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Ethnocentrism is a source of intercultural understanding and ethical nearsightedness.

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Which of the following is not a value orientation about a culture's preferred form of human activity?

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B) Becoming
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D) Discerning

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Appiah's point that the practice of ethics is "contestable" is important because

Culturally different expressions of the Golden Rules make it an unlikely candidate for a minimalist ethical practice.

Dialectical tensions of intercultural communication can influence how identity is negotiated.

Cosmopolitans believe that is possible to an individual to practice the complete truth of an ethical value or principle.

An absolutist approach to intercultural communication minimizes or ignores differences and diversities within a culture.

One source of intercultural misunderstanding and ethical nearsightedness is that cultures are incommensurable, which means that

The idea of "universalism with toleration of differences" is key to cosmopolitanism.

Which of the following are minimalist practices of ethical communication?

Minimalist ethical values are the simplest, most basic forms of mutual support and respect needed for persons and groups to survive.

Practice of cosmopolitanism is ethics encourages conversations about ethics among people with different ethical viewpoints.

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah claims that there is sufficient overlap in the "vocabulary of values" in different cultures for begin conversations about significant issues of human survival.

Intercultural communication is the exchange of messages between groups with significantly different cultures.

Cosmopolitans believe that there are many values worth living by and that it is not humanly possible to live by all of them, so we should be tolerant of different values and practices that promote human survival and thriving.

Static-dynamic is a dialectical tension that intercultural communicators manage.

Absolutist thinking about universals does not allow for culturally different practices of values.

Cultural relativists recognize that absolutist ethical approaches to other cultures historically have created significant harm.

When addressing problems that create human misery that do not recognize cultural boundaries--such as climate change, disease, poverty, terrorism, or war--cultural relativists can experience the paradox of tolerance in their intercultural communication.

Different cultures may practice an ethical value, such as truthfulness, in the same ways.