Cultural homogenization takes place when a set of cultural values and practices are

As consumers, we do not pay attention to the exploitative working conditions (i.e., sweat shops, low wages, and a lack of worker’s rights) behind the production of products we purchase. Instead, we focus on the power of the product to make us look and feel good. Which of the following terms describes this? 

_____ are groups of individuals for whom we feel concern, with whom we are willing to cooperate and from whom separation creates anxiety.  

Media can be defined as the ___________ through which messages are communicated.

In the microframe analysis of intercultural conflict, you focus on

Xenophobia is defined as

Soumia, an international student from India, was very excited to come to the United States. A few weeks after her arrival, however, she started feeling homesick. She began to think that cultural differences are confusing and disorienting. Soumia is experiencing 

When Heather witnessed a conflict between local residents and Sudanese refugees in town, she paid attention to the power imbalance between the two groups and the divisive rhetoric on immigration in the media. Heather is using

Fragmengration refers to

Starting in the late 1980s, a large number of migrants moved from Mexico to work in a meatpacking plant in Marshalltown, Iowa. Back in Mexico, they experienced deteriorating economic conditions, and the meatpacking plant in the United States was in need of migrant laborers. This pattern of migration can be best understood from