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Chapter 13
HCOM 320
How Can We Become Ethical
Intercultural Communicators?
Ethics
• Ethical absolutism position
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Principles of right & wrong w/universally standards
Cultural context is minimized
Universality – one consistent standards
Dominant culture defines criteria
Colonial ethnocentrism
Ethics (continued)
• Ethical relativism position
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Ethical relativism
Critical role of cultural context-maximized
Accordance with underlying traditions, beliefs……
Encourages cultural flexibility
Perpetuate intolerable cultural practices
Ethics (continued)
• Ethical-universalism position
– Proper cultural context
– Judgments require knowledge
– Rely on Eurocentric moral philosophies
• Meta-ethics contextualism
– Layered contextual perspective
– Each treated as unique
– Broader philosophical outlook
Meta-ethics
Key concepts
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Rights
Duties
Traditions & stories
Fairness
Justice
Consequences
Virtues
Ideals
Meta-ethical decision
From ethnocentrism to
ethnorelativism
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Defensive ethnocentrism
Ambivalent ethnocentrism
Functional flexibility stage
Dynamic flexibility stage
Dynamic Global Leader
• Global literacies
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Personal
Social
Business
cultural
• Ethical intercultural communication
characteristics – adaptive, creative, experimental,
tries again, other-centered, intentional
mindfulness