These barriers, namely, ethnocentrism, stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, involve the formation of beliefs or judgments about another culture even before communication occurs.The following attitudes and behaviors towards culture poses difficulties in communicating effectively between cultures. Curtailing biased communication begins with identifying it for what it is, and it ends when we remove such talk from our mindset. It refers to a primary negative perception created by individuals on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, cast or language. The variation among labels applied to a group may be related to the groups size, and can serve as one indicator of perceived group homogeneity. Thus, at least in English, use of the masculine signals to women that they do not belong (Stout & Dasgupta, 2016). Overaccommodation can take the form of secondary baby talk, which includes the use of simplified or cute words as substitutes for the normal lexicon (e.g., tummy instead of stomach; Caporael, 1981). Knight et al., 2003), it will be important to consider how communication patterns might be different than what previously has been observed. They may be positive, such as all Asian students are good at math,but are most often negative, such as all overweight people are lazy. As with the verbal feedback literature, Whites apparently are concerned about seeming prejudiced. Stereotype-incongruent characteristics and behaviors, to contrast, muddy the picture and therefore often are left out of communications. There are four barriers to intercultural communication (Hybels & Weaver, 2009). . Among these strategies are linguistic masking devices that camouflage the negative behaviors of groups who hold higher status or power in society. Sometimes different messages are being received simultaneously on multiple devices through various digital sources. Because observers are less likely to notice the absence of something (e.g., short meetings, nominal advice) than the presence of something (e.g., unkind words or derogatory labels), these sins of omissions can be overlooked as prejudiced communication. Although the persons one-word name is a unique designation, the one-word label has the added discriminatory value of highlighting intergroup differences. However, when Whites feel social support from fellow feedback-givers, the positivity bias may be mitigated. Is social media more (or less) stereotype perpetuating than more traditional mass communication venues; and, if so, is that impact unique in quality or simply in quantity? Intercultural Conflict Management. 2. This chapter addresses both theoretical and empirical gaps in the literature of stereotypic beliefs and prejudiced attitudes as noticed in everyday communication. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd died after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for over 8 minutes;almost 3 of those minutes were after Floyd was unconscious. That noted, face-ismand presumably other uses of stereotypic imagesis influenced by the degree of bias in the source. Similar patterns of controlling talk and unresponsiveness to receiver needs may be seen in medical settings, such as biased physicians differential communication patterns with Black versus White patients (Cooper et al., 2012). Prejudiced communication takes myriad forms and emerges in numerous contexts. Nominalization transforms verbs into nouns, again obfuscating who is responsible for the action (e.g., A rape occurred, or There will be penalties). Communicators may betray their stereotypically negative beliefs about outgroups by how abstractly (or concretely) they describe behaviors. Another important future direction lies with new media. Accessibility StatementFor more information contact us atinfo@libretexts.orgor check out our status page at https://status.libretexts.org. Step 1: Describe the behavior or situation without evaluating or judging it. We also acknowledge previous National Science Foundation support under grant numbers 1246120, 1525057, and 1413739. As noted earlier, the work on prejudiced communication has barely scratched the surface of Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets. Presumably, Whites are concerned about being prejudiced in cross-race feedback settings. When feedback-givers are concerned about accountability without fear of appearing prejudiced, they provide collaboratively worded suggestions that focus on features that significantly could improve performance. Small conversing groups of ordinary citizens who engage in ingroup talk may transmit stereotypes among themselves, and stereotypes also may be transmitted via mass communication vehicles such as major news outlets and the professional film industry. The woman whose hair is so well shellacked with hairspray that it withstands a hurricane, becomes lady shellac hair, and finally just shellac (cf. The smile that reflects true enjoyment, the Duchenne smile, includes wrinkling at the corners of the eyes. Although they perhaps can control the content of their verbal behavior (e.g., praise), Whites who are concerned about appearing prejudiced nonverbally leak their anxieties into the interaction. Favoritism may include increased provision of desirable resources and more positive evaluation of behaviors and personal qualities, as well as protection from unpleasant outcomes. Although prejudiced and stereotypic beliefs may be communicated in many contexts, an elaboration of a few of these contexts illustrates the far reach of prejudiced communication. Barriers of . But, of course, all things are not equal when intergroup biases may be operating. Prejudiced communication affects both the people it targets as well as observers in the wider social environment. Outgroup negative behaviors are described abstractly (e.g., the man is lazy, as above), but positive behaviors are described in a more concrete fashion. When first-person plurals are randomly paired with nonsense syllables, those syllables later are rated favorably; nonsense syllables paired with third-person plurals tend to be rated less favorably (Perdue, Dovidio, Gurtman, & Tyler, 1990). Communicators may use secondary baby talk when speaking to aged persons, and may fail to adjust appropriately for variability in cognitive functioning; higher functioning elderly persons may find baby talk patronizing and offensive. A number of theories propose explanations for why people perceive something as amusing, and many have been applied to group-based humor. Many extant findings on prejudiced communication should generalize to communication in the digital age, but future research also will need to examine how the unique features of social media shape the new face of prejudiced communication. Discuss examples of stereotypes you have read about or seen in media. When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. Hall, E. T. (1976). Treating individuals according to rigid stereotypic beliefs is detrimental to all aspects of the communication process and can lead to prejudice and discrimination. They are wild animals, robots, and vermin who should be feared, guarded against, or exterminated. Arguably the most extreme form of prejudiced communication is the use of labels and metaphors that exclude other groups from humanity. The contexts discussedhumor, news, entertaining filmcomprise some notable examples of how prejudiced communication is infused into daily life. If you would like to develop more understanding of prejudice, see some of the short videos at undertandingprejudice.org at this link: What are some forms of discrimination other than racial discrimination? Empirical work shows that such prejudiced attitudes and stereotypic beliefs can spread within ingroup communities through one-on-one conversation as well as more broadly through vehicles such as news, the entertainment industry, and social media. When prejudice leads to incorrect conclusions about other people, it can breakdown intercultural communication and lead to feelings of hostility and resentment. There is a vast literature on nonverbal communication in intergroup settings, ranging from evaluation of outgroup members (e.g., accents and dialects, nonverbal and paralinguistic patterns) to misunderstanding of cultural differences (e.g., displays of status, touching, or use of space). Andersen, P. A., Nonverbal Communication: Forms and Functions (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1999), 57-58. In one study, White participants who overheard a racial slur about a Black student inferred that the student had lower skills than when participants heard a negative non-racial comment or heard no comment at all (Greenberg & Pyszczynski, 1985). Similarly, video clips of arrests are more likely to show police using physical restraint when the alleged perpetrator is Black rather than White. More broadly, use of masculine terms (e.g., mankind) and pronouns (e.g., he) as a generic reference to all people fails to bring female actors to mind (for a discussion see Ruscher, 2001). Prejudice Oscar Wilde said, "Listening is a very dangerous thing. Communicators also use secondary baby talk when speaking to individuals with developmental cognitive disabilities, but also may use this speech register when the receiver has a physical disability unrelated to cognitive functioning (e.g., an individual with cerebral palsy). Group-disparaging humor often relies heavily on cultural knowledge of stereotypes. There have been a number of shocking highly publicized instances in which African-Americans were killed by vigilantes or law enforcement, one of the more disturbing being the case of George Floyd. Again, depending on the situation, communicators may quickly mask their initial brow furrow with an obligatory smile. The term 'prejudice' is almost always used in a negative way to describe the behavior of somebody who has pre-judged others unfairly, but pre-judging others is not necessarily always a bad thing. Guadagno, Muscanell, Rice, & Roberts, 2013). Social scientists have studied these patterns most extensively in the arenas of speech accommodation, performance feedback, and nonverbal communication. People who are especially motivated to present themselves as non-prejudiced, for example, might avoid communicating stereotype-congruent information and instead might favor stereotype-incongruent information. Krauss & Fussell, 1991); group labels presumably develop in a similar fashion. Overcoming Prejudices To become a successful international manager, you must overcome prejudices that can be communicated through your verbal and non-verbal communication. sometimes just enough to be consciously perceived (e.g., Vanman, Paul, Ito, & Miller, 1997). Printed from Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Communication. Your current browser may not support copying via this button. In 2017, 35.5% of people with disabilities, ages 18 to 64 years, were employed, while 76.5% of people without disabilities were employed, about double that of people with disabilities. A label such as hippie, for example, organizes attributes such as drugs, peace, festival-goer, tie-dye, and open sexuality; hippie strongly and quickly cues each of those attributes more quickly than any particular attribute cues the label (e.g., drugs can cue many concepts other than hippie). On the recipient end, members of historically powerful groups may bristle at feedback from individuals whose groups historically had lower status. Communicators also may use less extreme methods of implying who isand who is notincluded as a full member of a group. Alternatively, communicators might underaccommodate if they overestimate the listeners competence or if communicators infer that the listener is too incompetent or unmotivated to accept the message. Some evidence suggests that people fail to apply such conversational conventions to outgroups: The addition of mitigating explanations for negative outcomes does not help outgroup members (Ruscher, 2001). Are stereotype-supporting images more likely than non-stereotypic images to become memes (cf. All three examples illustrate how stereotypic information may be used to ease comprehension: Stereotypic information helps people get the joke or understand the message in a limited amount of time. Both these traits also contribute to another communication barrier - anxiety (Neuliep, 2012). For example, the photographs or stock video images that accompany news stories can help reinforce stereotypes. Thus, group-disparaging humor takes advantage of peoples knowledge of stereotypes, may perpetuate stereotypes by using subgroups or lowering of receivers guard to get the joke, and may suggest that stereotypic beliefs are normative within the ingroup. An example of prejudice is having a negative attitude toward people who are not born in the United States and disliking them because of their status as "foreigners.". There is a strong pressure to preferentially transmit stereotype-congruent information rather than stereotype-incongruent information in order to maximize coherence. Slightly more abstract, interpretive action verbs (e.g., loafing) reference a specific instance of behavior but give some interpretation. The Receiver can enhance the . In many such cases, the higher status person has the responsibility of evaluating the performance of the lower status person. In some settings, however, a communicator may be asserting that members of the tagged group successfully have permeated a group that previously did not include them. Prejudice; Bad Listening Practices; Barriers to effective listening are present at every stage of the listening process (Hargie, 2011). Interestingly, periodicals and postage stamp portraits show greater focus on the face for men and Whites (i.e., rational, powerful) than for women and Blacks (i.e., emotional, less powerful). The parasite metaphor also is prevalent in Nazi film propaganda and in Hitlers Mein Kampf (Musolff, 2007). As one might imagine, the disparity in ingroup-outgroup evaluations is more obvious on private ratings than on public ones: Raters often wish to avoid the appearance of bias, both because bias may be socially unacceptable and in some cases may be illegal. With the advent of the Internet, social media mechanisms such as Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook allow ordinary citizens to communicate on the mass scale (e.g., Hsueh, Yogeeswaran, & Malinen, 2015). 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However, as we've discussed,values, beliefs, and attitudes can vary vastly from culture to culture. Information overload is a common barrier to effective listening that good speakers can help mitigate by building redundancy into their speeches and providing concrete examples of new information to help audience members interpret and understand the key ideas. Such a linguistic strategy links positive outcomes with a valued social identity but creates distance from negative outcomes. . . If there are 15 women in a room, consider how efficient it is to simply reference the one woman as shellac. Indeed, this efficiency even shows up in literature. Discussions aboutstereotypes, prejudice, racism, and discrimination are unsettling to some. Incongruity resolution theories propose that amusement arises from the juxtaposition of two otherwise incongruous elements (which, in the case of group-based humor, often involves stereotypes). Ethnocentrismassumesour culture or co-culture is superior to or more important than others and evaluates all other cultures against it. Both these forms of communication are important in ensuring that we are able to put across our message clearly. Although this preference includes the abstract characterizations of behaviors observed in the linguistic intergroup bias, it also includes generalizations other than verb transformations. Still, its crucial to try to recognize ourown stereotypic thinking. Stereotypic and prejudiced beliefs sometimes can be obfuscated by humor that appears to target subgroups of a larger outgroup. Step 2: Think of 2 possible interpretations of the behavior, being aware of attributions and other influences on the perception process. Like the work on exclusion discussed earlier, such interactions imply that outgroup members are not worthy of attention nor should they be accorded the privileges of valued group members. More broadly, prejudiced language can provide insight into how people think about other groups and members of other groups: They are different from us, they are all alike, they are less worthy than us, and they are outside the norm or even outside humanity. Explicit attitudes and beliefs may be expressed through use of group labels, dehumanizing metaphors, or prejudiced humor. When the conversation topic focuses on an outgroup, the features that are clear and easily organized typically are represented by stereotype-congruent characteristics and behaviors. It is generally held that some facial expressions, such as smiles and frowns, are universal across cultures. Indeed, animal metaphors such as ape, rat, and dog consistently are associated with low socioeconomic groups across world cultures (Loughnan, Haslam, Sutton, & Spencer, 2014). But not all smiles and frowns are created equally. Thus, differential immediacy can leak communicator bias, affect targets of that bias, and also can impact observers in the wider social environment. Where did you start reading on this page? Andersen, P. A., Nonverbal Communication: Forms and Functions (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1999), 57-58. When prejudice leads to incorrect conclusions about other people, it can break down intercultural communication and lead to feelings of hostility and resentment. Although you know differently, many people mistakenly assume that simply being human makes everyone alike. It bears mention that sighted communicators sometimes speak loudly to visually impaired receivers (which serves no obvious communicative function). The student is associated with the winning team (i.e., we won), but not associated with the same team when it loses (i.e., they lost). In peer interactions, for example, Richeson and Shelton have argued that Black and White participants may have different goals (e.g., to be respected versus to appear non-prejudiced); these different goals can prompt unique communication patterns from minority and majority group members. In Samovar, L.A., &Porter,R.E. In the digital age, people obtain their news from myriad sources. Most of us can appreciate the important of intercultural communication, yet several stumbling blocks may get in the way of a positive intercultural communication experience. Stereotyping is a generalization that doesn't take individual differences into account. This can make the interaction awkward or can lead us to avoid opportunities for intercultural communication. Thus, just because a message may use subtle linguistic features or is not fully intentional, bias still may impact observers just as more explicitly biased communications do. Stereotype can have a negative effect when people use them to interpret behavior. Americans tend to say that people from England drive on the wrong side of the road, rather than on the other side. However, communicators also adapt their speech to foreigners in ways that may or may not be helpful for comprehension. Another interesting feature of metaphors that distinguish them from mere labels is that metaphors are not confined to verbal communication. In considering how prejudiced beliefs and stereotypes are transmitted, it is evident that those beliefs may communicated in a variety of ways. Prejudiceis a negative attitude and feeling toward an individual based solely on ones membership in a particular social group, such as gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, social class, religion, sexual orientation, profession, and many more (Allport, 1954; Brown, 2010). Stereotypes are oversimplifiedideas about groups of people. For example, Italians in the United States historically have been referenced with various names (e.g., Guido, Pizzano) and varied cultural practices and roles (e.g., grape-stomper, spaghetti-eater, garlic-eater); this more complex and less homogeneous view of the group is associated with less social exclusion (e.g., intergroup friendship, neighborhood integration, marriage). "When people respond too quickly, they often respond to the wrong issue. Surely, a wide array of research opportunities awaits the newest generation of social scientists who are interested in prejudiced communication. It is unclear how well the patterns discussed above apply when women or ethnic minorities give feedback to men or ethnic majority group members, though one intuits that fear of appearing prejudiced is not a primary concern. Curiously, in order to get the joke, a stereotype needs to be activated in receivers, even if that activation is only temporary. Ordinary citizens now have a historically unprecedented level of access to vehicles of mass communication. (Dovidio et al., 2010). The nerd, jock, evil scientist, dumb blonde, racist sheriff, and selfish businessman need little introduction as they briefly appear in various stories. Some contexts for cross-group communication are explicitly asymmetrical with respect to status and power: teacher-student, mentor-mentee, supervisor-employee, doctor-patient, interviewer-interviewee. Have you ever experienced or witnessed what you thought was discrimination? Elderly persons who are seen as a burden or nuisance, for example, may find themselves on the receiving end of curt messages, controlling language, or explicit verbal abuse (Hummert & Ryan, 1996). There is some evidence that, at least in group settings, higher status others withhold appropriate praise from lower status outgroup members. 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