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Midterm Exam - IC Course: Intercultural Communication Insights - Studocu 1 IC COURSE MID-TERM TEST Name: Number in the list: Student’s number:
Mon. Morning or Mon. Afternoon Group: Total points: Name of marker: Group:
Choose F or T for these statements and write in front of them:
(Highlight your answer): E.g. 0) F. Learning culture is learning grammar.
(Think why you choose T/F for an oral test in class).
1) IC communication is a form of well-civilized communication.
2) The vaccination use for a disease denotes a nation’s civilization.
3) English can hardly keep its own cultural features because it is becoming a global language.
4) Non-verbal codes help communicators understand each other.
5) Resistance against cultural behaviors of a nation is a good way for you to adapt yourself to them.
6) Inappropriate social practices may come from an underdeveloped civilization.
7) Whatever forms of communication, you should learn think about “interpersonal
communication” first because it is a core concept for the study.
8) That Korean K-Pop BTS is presenting in the ‘United Nations” these days is an intercultural activity.
9) Hand-shaking is a universal but how to shake hands is a variation in the world.
10) The Covid 19 is a global phenomenon but they respond to it in specific culture behaviors.
11) Idioms and proverbs do not convey cultural meanings.
12) A non-verbal code never makes a culture shock.
13) In a socialistic culture (like Vietnam) keeping silent and just smiling is also a sign of
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14) Verbal and Non-verbal communication is thought to convey civilization features of a nation.
15) When a person says, “I’m so hungry”, he or she tends to use a non-verbal code to
emphasize his/her physical state. 00:58, 10/01/2026
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16) Facial expression is one of the nonverbal signs does not help people to interpret communicative meanings.
17) Acculturation and adaptation are those that make a person out of his/her own culture have ICC competence.
18) The Iceberg theory of culture helps us be aware that it is so hard to approach Culture more easily than culture.
19) Economy/business doing must be a key factor leading to globalization.
20) Touching is a either positive or negative behavior, depending on the cultural context.
21) The words “guy” and “man” refer to a male person in connotation but they are different in denotation.
22) Young/junior Vietnamese people tend to shake hands with old/senior people with one hand.
23) The “V” sign is becoming a universal non-verbal cue.
24) Kissing is a common social practice in all cultures.
25) In collectivism, parents do not want to control their children severely but children often
think their parents are a hurdle to their life.
26) Walking and putting hands on shoulders or embracing on the motorbike,…among males
in Vietnam is common in this culture.
27) By “eye-contact”, Vietnamese listeners do not tend to keep a little long while looking
directly at talkers or look straightforward into their eyes.
28) No matter how different identity you have, you must be, to some extent, influenced by your social culture.
29) John is a speaking English person so it is easy for him to travel around the world.
Therefore, he is very competent in communication even when he does not understand
cultural features of a foreign country where he comes.
30) Americans like punctuality. That makes them a culture shock when they work with a
culture where the people are “flexible” with time like Vietnam.
31) American businessmen like detailed written contracts.
32) Vietnamese tend to consider “individualism” to be selfishness and defiance.
33) Tattoo used to be a taboo sign in most cultures before it has become a globalized cultural code.
34) Culture and civilization are usually observed in relation.
35) Vietnamese people tend to open gifts in front of the giver.
36) Following ‘virtual’ achievements in teaching and learning is one of the civilization
features of education in Vietnam.
37) Human gestures are usually universal. 00:58, 10/01/2026
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38) Collectivistic and individualistic cultures sometimes share cultural behaviors.
39) Learners of English who are well-trained in the non-English speaking countries are trying to speak global English.
40) It is not easy to be successful in interpersonal communication, particularly in IC context.
41) Stereotyping is a good way of observing a cultural behavior of a people. 00:58, 10/01/2026
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42) There is a fact that a society which has a set of culture specific behaviors is not well-
civilized. The way of taking part in traffic activities in Vietnam is an example.
43) A multi-culture country rarely has prejudicial problems or discriminations.
44) Low context cultures prefer implicit verbal expressions rather than high context cultures
that prefer explicit verbal expressions.
45) Education belongs to civilization while how to educate people is culture specific.
46) When English speaking people say to you “See you again!”, they really mean to see you again.
47) An individualistic-culture person is good at team work if required while a collectivist -
culture person sometimes is very self-confident and does not want to hide his/her
ambition. That means the concept “culture” is hardly absolute.
48) A mask against the Corona virus is a cultural sign.
49) Pandemics (like H5N1, Covid19,…), climate change, environmental pollution are not globalized.
50) Ecology is a major factor that forms a type of culture. 00:58, 10/01/2026
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