solved Week 4 – Assignment Local, Regional, and National Cultural Profile

Week 4 – Assignment
Local, Regional, and National Cultural Profile
In Week 1, you created a Personal Cultural Profile. You will use the information from that assignment to now help you examine your culture in relation to the environment you live in. Pay attention to the perspectives and areas of focus from Chapters 10, 12, and 13 from your textbook and how they may apply to your specific profile. You may also find that Chapters 6 and 7 can be of help in preparing this assignment. To complete this local, regional, and national cultural profile, you must:

Step A: Describe the cultural composition of the city that you live in. Explore factors, such as racial composition, nationalities represented, religious affiliation, education level, economic status and so on. If your city is dominated by a single industry or employer (e.g., Washington, D.C., is dominated by government jobs and Los Angeles is dominated by the entertainment industry, etc.), this is also worth noting here. If you live on or near a military base, please include information about this in your description.
Step B: Compare the demographic information you identified in your Personal Cultural Profile, with that found in the predominant culture in your city (e.g., do the majority of the people in your city follow the same religion as you, etc.?)
Complete steps A and B again, only this time for the state or region that you live in. A good starting point for this step is to consider how your city differs most from the cultural profile of your state or region. There are always some differences to find, although in some cases these differences may be more striking.
Complete steps A and B again, only this time for the country that you live in. Again, start by asking how your state or region differs most from the country as a whole.
Analyze how your communication with others is influenced by the cultures represented in the city, state, and country that you live in. Remember that communication issues may have come up in talking with people from other areas (including different countries), and consider the role cultural differences may have played in this. These differences may involve vocabulary and language use, slang, perceptions of race, gender roles, nonverbal communication, interpersonal space, acceptable and taboo topics, and other factors.