While Visiting a Friend in a Foreign Country, You Notice

question 69

Multiple Choice

While visiting a friend in a foreign country, you notice how loudly everybody talks and it seems to you that everyone is always angrily arguing with each other. Your friend assures you that this is all normal and that nobody is really angry. It is possible that you are from a(n) ________ culture and you are a tourist in a ________ culture.

• A)active; reactive
• B)reactive; multi-active
• C)linear-active; multi-active
• D)linear-active; reactive
• E)reactive; non-reactive

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Definitions:

Actions

The process of doing something in order to achieve a purpose, often associated with human behavior or interventions.

Practical Consciousness

Refers to the tacit knowledge and unarticulated beliefs that individuals use in their daily lives without formal reasoning.

Actions

Behaviors taken by individuals or groups influenced by intentions, motivations, and societal norms.

Agency-Structure Literature

Scholarly discourse that explores the dynamic relationship between individual agency (the capacity to act) and social structures (patterns of social arrangement).