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Theories of Culture and Intercultural...
Web Resources
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- Cultural Background: Seasite (Southeast Asian cultures)
This site is one of the most extensive university sites on culture; it provides resources on culture and language (though not as much on communication) for seven Southeast Asian cultures (Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Laos, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Cambodia, and Vietnam).
- Culturegrams
Perhaps one of the most extensive overviews of different cultures, Brigham Young University’s Culturegrams offers area reports on 177 nations (each updated regularly) in print or on-line versions, as well as special (but fewer) area reports for children’s education, information on the U.S. for foreign visitors, photographs and famous persons from regions, and so on. This site offers sample reports and images, but none of the actual Culturegrams. Individual country reports are available for $6.00 (U.S.).
- The Society for International Education, Training, and Research (SIETAR)
This is one of the key organizations for intercultural trainers and researchers and is the publisher of The International Journal of Intercultural Relations. The Website tells about the organization and provides links to local (continental region) SIETAR agencies.
- The World Communication Association
The World Communication Organization is an organization of communication scholars around the world, many (but not all) of whom are interested in issues of culture and communication. From here, you can also find out about the WCA’s quarterly journal.
- Intercultural Communication
One of the few journals devoted exclusively to intercultural communication. This site gives links to abstracts and recent tables of contents.
- Hate Crimes—Federal Bureau of Investigations
The FBI hosts a website about hate crimes (definitions, laws regarding, and specific cases). The FBI posts updates of reports on hate crime statistics. The most recent we could find was 1999: www.fbi.gov/ucr/99hate.pdf.
- Meet the theorists: Geert Hofstede
Geert Hofstede, retired organizational psychologist, provides links to his publications, and summaries of his ideas on organizational cultures and culture differences.
- Meet the theorists: Min Sun Kim
Min Sun Kim is a professor in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Hawaii. This page links to details on her education and research.
- Meet the theorists: Michael Hecht
One of the key writers working on the communication theory of ethnic identity, Michael Hecht is the chair of the department of Communication Arts and Sciences at The Pennsylvania University. This home webpage contains links to his research publications.
- Meet the theorists: Howard Giles
Howard Giles is one of the main authors for ethnolinguistic vitality theory and communication accommodation (though Cynthia Gallois has been lead author on a couple of the recent versions of the theory). This limited UCSB website gives us a photo of Dr. Giles, but little else.
- Meet the theorists: Mark Orbe
Mark Orbe, a prolific writer in the area of ethnicity and communication, is Associate Professor of Communication at Western Michigan University. His homepage lists his list of recent publications.
- At a Larger Level—Better Interracial Relations in the Community
This U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service PDF file provides guidelines for communities (i.e., municipal policy) for improving interethnic communication.
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