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The imperative for intercultural competence having to do with the nationwide trend toward increased cultural diversity.
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The demographic imperative
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The name for a combination of minorities that outnumbers the European American population.
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Minority-majorities
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The trend toward relatively high growth of non-European American populations.
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The browning of America
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Marshall McLuhan's term for the consequences of the mass media's ability to bring events from the far reaches of the globe into people's homes, thus shrinking the world.
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Global village
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A national policy of avoiding political and economic involvement with other countries.
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Isolationism
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The imperative for intercultural communication having to do with the increased ease of communicating with and traveling to other cultures because of things such as the Internet, GPS, and cell phones.
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The technological imperative
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The integration of capital, technology, and information across national borders.
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Globalization
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The imperative for intercultural communication having to do with global interdependence in commerce and trade.
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The economic imperative
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The imperative for intercultural communication having to do with national security.
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The peace imperative
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The imperative for intercultural communication having to do with our ability to communicate competently with people from other cultures.
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The interpersonal imperative
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We no longer have a choice about whether to live and communicate with people from other cultures.
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It is imperative.
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One of the bloodiest problems -- nationally and internationally -- of the 20th century, according to Catharine R. Simpson.
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The refusal to live peaceably in pluralistic societies (culture clashes)
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A symbolic, interpretive, transactional, contextual process in which people create shared meanings.
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Communication
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A word, action, or object that stands for or represents a unit of meaning.
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Symbol
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A perception, thought, or feeling that a person experiences and might want to communicate to others.
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Meaning
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