Question 1

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Provide Sorrells' definition for hegemony.  Provide one, brief example.

Your Answer:

Hegemony is the dominance which the ruling class doesn't need force when the under class look up to the ruling class's standard and accepted the dominance by themselves. 

 

Question 2

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Define positionality and standpoint.  Briefly explain their relationship to one another.  Discuss why you think these are important concepts in intercultural communication.

Your Answer:

Positionality is how we related to the society's categories such as race, class,...
Standpoint is the position of people in the society that shape their experience or their perspective to surrounding things.  These 2 are related when positionality place people and help us identity their standpoint.

Different postionality and standpoint give people different past experience which shape their way of thinking and perceptive to the surround world. These 2 theories help us to study deeper and understand more angles of people when they use intercultural communication

 

Question 3

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In a couple weeks, you will have your first seminar with a group of your peers.  Identity and briefly discuss one way in which context, positionality and standpoint, and hegemony might show up in your discussions.  

Your Answer:

I think what I will talk about is how an asian in worker class strive to survive in America society which exist the hegemony from Capitalism class. 

 

Question 4

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In your own words (and without looking it up anywhere), provide a definition for racism.

Your Answer:

Racism is when a people think another race is inferior or having prejudice toward a specific race.

 

Question 5

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In your own words, explain why you think there are roughly 736 million people living in poverty globally.

Your Answer:

The gap between the rich and the poor is so large globally. This issue exist everywhere around the world. To me, I think the reason for that is the hegemony of the ruling class which most profit from society pour into their pocket. The lower class suffer from unfair paying and accepted to live with it.