Introductory lecture for my Intercultural Communication Class

1. INTRODUCING CULTURE
Lecture One

2. EXPLORING INTERDEPENDENCE
 The impact of technology
 Globalized interconnectedness
 Social media impact
 The reality of global poverty
 Income poverty
 Extreme poverty
 Absolute poverty
 Relative poverty

3. PEOPLE AND PRODUCTS ARE MIGRATING
 214 million live outside their country of origin
 Saturation of world markets with US Culture

4. FINANCIAL IMPACT
Debt to China
Minorities moving to majority
The “1%“
 Doubled over last 20 year
 Top 1% owns more than the bottom 90%

5. INCOME EQUALITY

6. DEFINING CULTURE
 Shaped by context
 Historical perspectives
Colonization
High and low culture
Stratification
Popular culture

7. ENTERING ACADEMIA
 Anthropologists
Edward T. Hall,
Clifford Geertz
 Based on shared meanings
 Based on symbols
 Rooted in ethnocentrism

8. MOVING FORWARD
 During this class we are going to
Challenge the order you recognize
Create chaos to gain understanding
Examine opposing and foreign
ideologies