Cross cultural understanding: a handbook to understand others’ cultures

 
Cultural stereotypes
- applying both evidence and our existing 
beliefs about the members of that cultural group 
 
culture shock
- the disorientation a person may feel when 
experiencing an unfamiliar way of life due to being in a new 
culture. 

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denial
- signals of denial effectively undo or contradict more 
conscious typically false or manufactured body language, thereby 
betraying true feeling or motive. 
 
dialog 
- a conversation between two or more entities in which 
they use their speech organs to convey a message 
 
displacement
- a stress signal typically prompted by suppression 
of natural reaction due to fear or other inhibition, for example 
biting fingernails, picking at finger(s) or thumb.